Hey guys it's Olivia and I'm back with another video.
So last week I found myself in need of a teleprompter. I was working on a video that required me
to memorize a lot of words, like, I had to get them correct and it was just like paragraphs
and I was like no; like there's no way I'm going to memorize this. So then I was thinking,
ok let me look into a teleprompter. I know they have teleprompters that you can use with
your phone and stuff like that and so I looked on Amazon and I saw some teleprompters for
around $100 - $150. Which to me would be worth it; it's a good investment it's probably something
that I'll use multiple times as long as I'm making videos, right. However, this video
that I was working on had a deadline, by the way this wasn't a YouTube video it was for something else,
and this video had a deadline and the deadline was May 31st. And even though
I had Amazon Prime the teleprompter wouldn't have come until like June 3rd or June 4th, right.
So it would have arrived after I needed it. So I'm like, what can I do about that
with the time that I have? So I decided that I was going to DIY a teleprompter and it actually
worked out very well. And so I'm just going to show you guys what I did. Whether or not
you guys are going to be able to replicate this I'm not entirely sure because this worked
because of the specific things that I just already happened to own, but I will have a
link to everything I talk about in the description of this video. So the materials that I used are
an iPad, a glass screen protector for my iPad but not one that's attached to the screen,
one of these paper clamps; I'm not exactly sure what they're called but you've
seen your teachers use them probably to clamp a stack of papers together. And then I had
this extra tripod; not the one that my camera is currently on. And so now I'm going to show
you how I used these four things to make a DIY teleprompter. So this is my camera and
this is the tripod that I'm using; it is the Manfrotto 290xtra and with this tripod it
has these little metal clips/metal openings on it and that is going to be helpful for
what we're about to do. So if I take my clip and I put one of the sides into here
then it'll stay like that. Then I take my glass screen protector and I open the clasp
and I clip it in like that.
And there we have what our words are going to reflect off of.
Then I have my iPad here and I'll just do a quick screen recording. So I'm on telepromptermirror.com/telepromptersoftware,
I'll have a link to it in the description, and so this is basically a website that acts
as a teleprompter. So for example, I just wrote this text for the sake of this video,
"This is my text for the teleprompter video. I'm just going to type more stuff to make
the paragraph longer. More and more typing is what I'm doing." I know I'm such a great writer.
Anyways, so one thing you can do here is you can adjust the margins. So I'm just
going to adjust them to bring the text more towards the middle. And then what you need
to do is click this T with the horizontal line under it and then it's going to flip
the text and mirror it. Then if I take my iPad and this is another tripod I have right here;
you can use a desk, you can use a stack of books, whatever you need to do.
I just have another tripod and I'm going to place my iPad on this other tripod.
And now the text, since its flipped on the iPad, when it reflects off the glass it's going to flip back,
so now it's going to be forwards. So you might not be able to see the reflection
and that is for two reasons. One, I am currently filming the teleprompter which means I have
the lights facing this direction, meanwhile, if you were standing to read the teleprompter
then you would be on this side of the camera which means the lights would be where I'm
standing and the lights would be facing this way. So right now I have the lights this way,
when in reality when you're actually using this setup the lights would be facing this way.
So you can't see the reflection of the text because of the reflection of the lights.
The second thing is with teleprompters you've probably seen them like in this enclosed box
and that is also once again for reflections. So if I take this shirt and I hold it up behind it,
you can probably see the reflection of the text a little better. So let me turn off
these lights to show you what it will actually look like when you're using it.
Ok, so not only have I turned off the lights but I have also changed to my iPhone camera because it
just wasn't showing up very well using my YouTube camera. So yes, as you can see the
reflection of the words on the screen makes them face forward. So if I click play on the teleprompter
then the words are going to move and you're going to be able to read along as it goes.
And with this website you're able to adjust the speed that the text goes and how
big the font is and all that stuff. So if I hit pause I can make the font bigger;
you'll see the reflection. I can make the font bigger so that I can see it better or I can make it smaller.
And if this is the current speed of the text I can make it go way faster if I wanted to.
And now the text is moving at that speed, that would be kind of hard to read,
but you know what I'm saying. So there's a lot of customizability with this website
and so now you have your clip, your screen protector, and your reflection from your iPad,
and you have this website that makes the text move for you, and now you have a DIY teleprompter.
So yes, so that is how I used these materials to make a DIY teleprompter. And at the beginning
of this video I said I didn't know if you guys were going to be able to replicate this
because certain things like sticking this clamp into the nook of your tripod,
well what if your tripod isn't the Manfrotto 290xtra so you don't have that little nook, you know what I mean?
But if you have some sort of tablet or maybe you could even do this with a phone
but don't quote me on that, but if you have something to type your text on,
some sort of glass to reflect it off of; whether that's a screen protector or a picture frame
or anything that's just a sheet of glass, and then you have something to hold that sheet of glass,
and then something else to clamp your holder to, then you have all the materials you need.
So there's definitely substitutes for all these things. Instead of an iPad
you might be able to use your cell phone or maybe an Android tablet that you may have, or instead of this
paper clamp you might have pliers, I don't know, anything that can clamp things.
So there's definitely substitutes for all of these things. Like, instead of using a
tripod you might have a desk, or you might have a music stand, or you might have a stack of books,
whatever you can do to lay your tablet in a spot and then it reflects off of the glass.
All of these things are interchangeable with other objects around your house.
But basically you just need a tablet, some sort of glass, a clamp for that glass,
somewhere to clip the clamp to, and something to lay your iPad on. So if you have all those things
you can mix and match these different materials and there you have a DIY teleprompter.
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