Teleprompter

1. Paste your script. It shows the words and how long they take to read, and stays in this browser if you refresh.
2. Set the speed and size. Start at 140 words a minute, read a few lines out loud, and adjust.
3. Pick how you'll use it: mirrored for prompter glass, Pause when I pause to follow your voice, or Record me with my camera to film yourself.
4. Press Start. After a 3, 2, 1 the text scrolls. Space pauses, the arrow keys change the speed, and Stop ends it.

A script's length is set by how fast you talk. This is roughly how many words fill each length at a slow, relaxed and quick pace, before any pauses:

So a 840-word script takes about 6 min at 140. Paste yours in to see its time at your speed. For writing it, see how to write a YouTube script and hooks for short videos.

• Put the text close to the lens. The farther it is from the camera, the more your eyes move off it. Keep the screen just under or beside the camera, and sit back from it.
• Make the text big and the lines short. Big text lets you sit farther away, so your eyes move less from side to side.
• Write the way you talk. Short sentences, everyday words and contractions. Read it out loud once and change any line that trips you up.
• Let it wait for you. Pause when I pause stops the text when you stop, so you can breathe, smile or say a line again without it running away.
• Know it well enough to look away. A glance at your notes or a gesture now and then looks natural; reading every word without a break doesn't.

With Record me with my camera ticked, you see yourself under the text, and recording starts as the countdown ends. It's saved as an MP4 where your browser can record one, and as a WebM otherwise, which the MP4 converter turns into an MP4.

Made one long take? Cut out the mistakes with the video trimmer, drop the gaps with the silence remover, or upload it to Clyper and get the best moments as vertical, captioned clips.