Easy build TelePrompter for your video camera

Step 6 Home stretch

Finally mount the camera to the frame, add the cd case lens, place the iPod cradle and bring up the proprompter software. This works by allowing the phone to reflect to people in front of the camera but the camera can see through the CD case lens without showing what is displayed to the people in front. So it goes without saying that you need to keep the CD case plastic clean and also this will render most autofocus systems useless and you may have to manually focus your camera.

Suprisingly you can read this prompter from quite a long distance. I have used it up to 25-30 feet away from the camera. With the software you can enlarge the text and control the scroll speed.

A few things to take into account, this is set up for a static camera (i.e. on a tripod) if you want to move around I suggest you tape the iPod in place so it does not fall out.

This is my first instructable so let me know what I am doing right and wrong... Hopefully you find this useful and as handy as I do...

Here it is in action again


Lastly here is the podcast I did on this, the prompter is the first segment and long time user Dave Spencer here at instructables is on this in the second segment check out his other builds!:

Comments

[halvis]

Excellent! Thank you! :) I might even make something inspired by this!

[jimmytvf]

this would film the refraction of the podcast?

[MechanicalMashup]

No this will not film the refraction.