FAQ

.txt .pdf .rtf ....are all supported. If you have other formats like word or pages, use those programs to save the files to .txt or .rtf and import.

PDF files are funny things. They may look like text when you are viewing them, but actually they may be images or other objects and they can be difficult to get the text from. There are 5 type of filter to use on the PDF to extract text whatever the format. In a perfect world the Document type would be used to get the text. If this does not give you all the text, try one of the other options.

You can set a timer for any amount of time, your script will then scroll from top to bottom taking exactly the time you set to get to the bottom. Remember, if you've got a long time and a short script.....its going to scroll slowly!....and vica versa. So make. sure your script is long enough for the time you have. To set the script to Timer mode ensure it is selected in the bottom left of the teleprompter screen. Click the current scrolling mode icon to select a new one. When you have selected Timer mode, click or tap the clock to set the duration you want. Once set, when you press the play or record button, the script will scroll for the set amount of time.

You can remove the top and bottom menu bars which will give you much more room on a small screen. Change this in the app Settings.

On iOS, long press the play button. On macOS, right click the play button, then select the loop option to start the scrolling and at the end of the script it will loop back to the top and play again. This also works in record mode by performing the same action on the record button.

To control a scripts speed, first your script needs to be in the speed mode of scrolling. In the teleprompt view at the bottom left of the screen you will see one of the following icons. The default is speed. Make sure speed is selected. Click the currently selected scroll mode icon to change to another mode. Then use the slider to control the speed of the script scrolling. Scrolling starts when you press the play or record button.

In the main script list view, at the top right corner you will see a "Q" symbol: Press this icon and you will be presented with a screen where you can create manage your queues. A queue can contain any number of scripts or folders. You can create as many different queues as you want. Add and remove script and folders from the queue by pressing the + and - buttons. Adding a folder automatically adds it's scipts. Any new scripts added to a folder later automatically show up in the queue. You can not add or remove files from the folder in this screen, this can only be done in the main script list screen. Order the files and folders by selecting the row and using the up/down arrows to re-order the list. You can not order the scripts in the folder. The order of scripts in the folder respects the same ordering as the main script list screen. Select the script you want to start scrolling and click the play button to the left. This will start the script scrolling, and once finished will automatically move to the next script in the queue. If you want to record as well as scroll, then on iOS long press the play button and on macOS right click to select the record option.

Yes you can. Whilest your script is automatically scrolling, you can always manually scroll up or down to either back track or skip forward if time is pressing. However, there may be occations where you want ultimate control of the script scrolling position. In this case you can set the scrolling to be Manual Paging. This is particularly useful for news readers who will often use a remote control to move on the script rather than auto scrolling. To set the script to Manual Paging mode ensure it is selected in the bottom left of the teleprompter screen. Click the current scrolling mode icon to select a new one. When you select Manual Paging, and start your script by pressing the Play or Record button, you will be able to use the page up and page down buttons to page through your script. Find out which buttons are used for Page Up and Page Down (or to remap them) go to the Keyboard Mapping section in Settings.

Whilest viewing your text in the teleprompter window, you will see buttons like this. (depending on the view you are in, you may not see these buttons directly. If not, choose the options button to seem them ) Use these buttons to flip / mirror the text. You can control if these buttons appear in the settings menu. You can also set the default behaviour here. On iOS devices, you can also long press the text on the teleprompter window to get the flip options.

You record yourself reading your scrolling script by first entering Record mode. Press the Record button at the top right of the screen. The first time you use the app, you will be asked to allow the app access to the camera and microphone. Ensure you allow access. Then when you are ready press the Record button which starts to record Video/Audio and starts the script scrolling (in whichever script scrolling mode you have selected)

Go to your devices System Settings. Scroll down to Camera and toggle on the app. Do the same for Microphone. You then may need to restart the app, probably best to do that. Ensure the correct Camera and Microphone are selected in the app Settings.

Yes it can. There are 2 ways to achieve this. One way is to change Continue Recording in the app settings. Alternatively, for small pauses you can just add a number of new lines at the bottom of your script.

By default, iOS devices do not show videos with captions. To turn this on, for to Settings->Accessibility->Subtitles & Captioning on your iOS device. Turn on Closed Captions + SDH. You will then be able to see the captions.

In the recordings view, right click (or long press on iOS devices) the recording you want to delete. Options will then appear. Choose the delete option.

Enable the software remote control in perferences. This allows you to control your script scrolling from any other Telepromptme app on the same wifi network. Both the app you want to control and the remote app need to have this setting enabled. The remote feature is only activited when one of the apps is showing a script. You will then find the remote on a new tab on the main screen. Both the iOS and MacOS versions of Telepromptme have this feature so no matter which device your script it scrolling on, you can remotely control it from any other iOS or MacOS device/

Yes, there are 2 ways to remotely control your teleprompt script. Using the software remote that comes with the app or using an external hardware remote, keyboard or game controller.

The app is compatiable with any external controller that acts like a keyboard..... which is most external pointing devices, game controllers and obviously keyboards. Check the instructions on your external control device and ensure its set to keyboard mode, to act like a keyboard. Map the buttons on your external control device in the app settings. Navigate to the "Hardware Remote and Keyboard Mapping" secion in app settings. Here you can map actions to button presses either by manually selecting which button to map to a particular action, or by pressing the button you want to map. This is the settings section you are looking for: