FAQ

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.

.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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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/

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: