Power Prompter
Mac Teleprompter for Content Creators | Review by Erik Vlietinck
Power Prompter is a Mac-only teleprompter for people who need to talk at presen-
tations or slideshows and webinars, and even professional broadcasters. It supports
beam-splitter hoods for professional setups and can be controlled remotely.
The Power Prompter app is based on a script-editing window and a separate
teleprompting window. In the Text Editor you can adjust many things, but font size
isn’t one of them as it’s dynamically adjusted to fit the Words per Line and Prompter
Margin settings. And, although you can’t embed images, pictures, or other rich media,
you can use emojis to indicate, for example, emotion.
Something you should be aware of when using a teleprompter is that allowing
the screen to display several words per line is okay as long as you’re a considerable
distance from the prompter. Being quite close to the teleprompter window will result
in a visible scanning of too many words on a line. The trick is to use two or three
words max.
Power Prompter’s prompter window can be customized in many ways and supports
Transport Control to start and pause prompting, rewind and reverse scrolling, and
adjust speed in real time. All of that can be controlled via the Mac’s keyboard, a free
iOS app for iPhones and iPads, a presentation clicker, or a standard Apple Keynote
and/or Microsoft PowerPoint compatible remote.
Its Run Time Automatic allows you to set the desired runtime for the script to the
second, with the app trying to match the scrolling speed automatically to this constraint.
My trying out different things over the course of a week taught me that, using my
iMac as both the editor and the prompter, the most difficult part is finding a comfort-
able reading speed that doesn’t require you to constantly start/stop the prompter or
fiddle too much with the speed-adjustment slider while reading your text out loud. n
Company: Suborbital Softworks Ltd.
Price: $ 4 9.9 9
Hot: Resolution independent;
support for professional
broadcasting equipment;
transport controls; Run Time
Automatic feature
Not:
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