-50% of the time, I'm really impressed. The other 50%,
it's too finicky. - That's not a success rate for me. - But the reason I love that there's
a piece of glass on a 45-degree angle, that reflects. - It's a good cheaper alternative
than spending a couple hundred dollars on that, as well as the big SLR.
-Welcome back. Today we're talking about teleprompters, and how they work. So, we're
going to show you. This is actually, a pretty cool teleprompter, we're going to demonstrate
and show you how to use it. Alright, so, Scott. - Yeah - You've done a lot of filming work. Have you
worked with do you work with teleprompters a lot? - Yes I have depending on the client. Obviously, if
it's a movie, no. But if it's an industrial client like yeah, and what's interesting is
teleprompter is actually, like a trademarked copyrighted name like capital TEELE capital P
and then another... I mean, it's weird. But I see on your little your prompter there, it doesn't,
it says Parrot teleprompter. Have you ever worked with one this small? - Yes. - Okay, cool. - Yes,
I have. - Because this is pretty cool like this is the technology behind a teleprompter. You need
something to broadcast word, so we're going to use my iPhone. But the reason I love that,
there's a piece of glass on a 45-degree angle, that reflects, it's really reflective. They
call it beam splitter glass. Well, this lens, we have, we screwed in an adapter on this camera.
So, I can slide it right on there and so, it's like you know, with a big teleprompter, you've
got cloth that might go over your head so you can see but here, it's blocking out all light. So,
I put my phone right here, and it will you'll see the reflection of the words, and you can
look right into the lens. - That's pretty cool. So, how about we demonstrate it. - Sure. - Want
to read a script. - Have some copy for me and of course, you're going to put your text backwards.
You know, in reverse the image because it's going to shoot up onto the. - Okay, so,
I've got a script here, I made this in a course talking about how to do a crop edit. So, it's some
real compelling engaging text. - And by the way, I've never read it, I've never seen it, and that's
pretty much how it's gonna be. - In this app, when I hit start prompting, let's see if it
flips it. Okay, so, see how it's backwards here, it's right now, it's kind of upside down. So,
see how it's like it's backwards, it's upside down but it's moving slow. But when you put it in
the. - It really is a very handy little device. - Yeah. - These days anybody can have a teleprompter
right on their lens. - So, it's got rubber grip, so it kind of holds the phone in place.
Let's see, I'll turn it the right way. So, now, when you look at the text, you're staring.
- Right down the lens, yeah. - Alright, so, do you want to demonstrate? - Sure. - So, read from it,
and try and do it as if you're not reading. - Well, of course, but it's a little slow for me.
No, it's good. Crop edits are a form of jump cut, that looks as if nothing was editing out.
All you do is change the crop or zoom of the clip before or after the jump cut. So, for example,
let's say you filmed yourself from the waist up, and mid-sentence you pause to sneeze.
You simply edit out the sneeze section in the segment before the sneeze. You leave it as is and
in the segment following the sneeze, you crop in on the shot framed at the top of your shoulders.
See, viewers are so used to fast camera changes every few seconds. So, in their minds,
this will appear seamless. - Alright. - That was pretty good. That's totally cool, I've never seen
that before. - Yeah, I can give you a script that would. - I add life to things, that's what I do. I
interpret copies, that's my job. - That's how you can write a script something scripted and but have
it look real because he was looking right into the lens so no one would see him reading. - So,
that's what... I know you don't do that with your. - I'd say. - You do a little bit with your clients.
- Some of my clients prefer it, it's probably like only ten percent, ten percent of my clients will
on occasion use the teleprompter. - Because there is something very authentic about just
speaking extemporaneously or having notes in front of you. - I mean, even when you and I are talking,
we're our eyes are moving you know. - Right, yeah. - And we might look up to think and so when
you have to practice, and you did a really good job. - But let's face it. If somebody's
doing their own YouTube channel and they're pretty much producing it themselves and they're
a one-man or one-woman band to grab something like that, to have your stuff written up and then
obviously, you're never gonna have the gift that I have, let's face it. That's once-in-a-lifetime
stuff. I was reading when I was three, I don't know what to tell you. It's just something that
I do very well. But how much does this run? - That's a couple hundred, I think this is the
brand. - it comes with the lens hood thing there. - Yeah, you've got different sizes of mounts
that you can screw it into different lenses. This is obviously, a DSLR camera and any type
of phone. - Whatever fits there? -Yeah, it prefers Apple but androids might work. - Because I know
that there's some for iPads some people will do iPads. - And it's more of a big box, you typically
have on a different stand. But if you want one that actually mounts to the camera itself.
Because you know, I can put this camera on a tripod and I don't have to have a separate
stand for the teleprompter. - Right. - But I do have a bigger one that would just have a separate
stand. - Here's something that you should be aware of when it comes to this technology, and the apps
that support it is that you can get and I don't know if the app that you're using has it. But you
can link it to your device or to a device so that, you actually are slowing it down, speeding it up,
just in your hand off to the side. Because almost every teleprompter job that I do for a client,
they've had to bring in, and if it's in L.A you know, a union teleprompter operator and those
people are really really good. I mean, if I speed up, they speed up. If I slow down. They can keep
my eye right in the middle of the lens, and that's one thing you're going to want to do too is with
this because it was going a little faster than I'm not that I'm used to. But because I'd never
seen it before, it was going kind of quick, my eyes are going up to the top. - Just the speed,
you can adjust the font size, it's all within the app. I've got four different apps, I'll take a
screenshot here that. - You've used at different times all four of them? - Yes. - Yeah. - And this
one here prompt smart R or something, that one I use when I connect it to the iPad and use the
bigger teleprompter because then I can control it you know, our team member can control it and
keep it in the right place. - Yes, the remote control. - And then this one, prompt smart pro
that one has voice activation. You can't use it outside or anywhere that there's noise but if
you're close to it, it will hear your words and it will move the words at the right place. - See,
I've never tried that one, I don't trust it for some reason. I'm not sure that I trust
you know, voice recognition to stop and start. But it's a good idea, I just don't know if it
actually executes. - 50%of the time, I'm really impressed. The other 50%,
it's too finicky. - That's not a success rate for me, I can't do that. What else about these
that are that's interesting? I would just say I mean, honestly. - I remember. - If I were yeah,
if I were, I've never used one of these when I'm doing my own kind of YouTube-type videos like you
say with most of your clients too it's because you have the info in your head and it comes off
a little more engagingly when it doesn't sound like it's read. On the other hand, if you have a
lot of content and you want it to be still fairly succinct and professional-looking, and sounding,
using one of those is best because nothing's worse than "ah", "uhm". - The script that you were just
demoing on it was from a course, and I scripted it out because I wanted to have all the content
in there. - Yeah. - That's the last time I've used a teleprompter but you know, in YouTube episodes,
I like it to be more conversational. However, going back 10 years ago, 12 years ago, when I
started making videos. I was so nervous on camera, and I would just stumble and everything and so,
getting a teleprompter like this and just being able to read it and still be able to look right
at the lens, that made my job a lot easier, and I had to practice you know, being able to sound
conversationally, as dry and monotone as I can be with a teleprompter it can even make it worse.
You have to have to practice to get your energy up. - Now, let me show you this because
some of us can't afford fancy pants, SLR, digital cameras. I mean, I have one. So, not everybody
can afford that. So, I have just an iPhone with a teleprompter app on it, and the beauty of this is
that I can import a document, and it'll you can see, it crunches it over by the lens. So that, as
I'm reading my eyes are close enough to the lens. Hey, how's it going? That's Matt by the way. - So,
depending on how close you are. - Here Matt, go. - My vision is so bad that I can't see anything.
- Talking about financial bubbles. Okay, anyway, sorry, go ahead. - You want to want to test it
out. So, if you're using an app like that and you're looking a little bit to the side
of the lens if it's far away you know, a little distance away versus you're holding it right here,
you want to see if people can notice you. Can you tell that my eyes are looking to the side?
Because it really is distracting, when you're looking at somebody and they're not making eye
contact with you they're over here they're like, what are you looking at? - Right,
yeah. - We can pick it up the slightest difference. That's why this kind is the best
because you're looking straight down the lens. - But if you're far enough away I mean, try it
out. - I've even done it on this fairly up close and because that lens is so small but I'm looking
at it. The type that causes a great depression dog coins NFTs other ridiculous cryptocurrencies don't
even get me started with inflation at a 40-year high in the federal reserve. - Let's see. - Okay,
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It's a good cheaper alternative than spending a couple hundred dollars on that as well as the big
SLR Yeah, I mean. - There you go. - I think, they might have something for a phone like an actual
physical apparatus. - I've actually heard of a camera that hangs down over your so instead of a
webcam that's on top, it actually goes down over your computer. - Yes, those they have for like
for my notebook or my MacBook pro there's one that comes down and so, it's right over the lens built
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