Free teleprompter glass! ($35 DIY prompter update)

[TheCreamerproduction]

just print a scrip and stick it beside your camera and done

[CollinandMason]

with the mirror glass, it looks almost color corrected

[JBantha]

@griffinity What's the standar name for the glass? "Mirrored glass—reflective mostly on one side, slightly bronze in color." seem a bit too long for me.

[griffinity]

@JBantha, My local shop calls it "transparent mirror." But it's important that your discuss all the finer details with your glass shop, because they're likely talking in terms of shower door aesthetics, rather than how it performs in a prompter.

[Ranger7studios]

Actually I used plexiglass It works great for mine and it was easy to cut to size.

[morphman86]

@Ranger7studios Yes, plexi is great if the light hits right (easilly done with a side-light), but you have to get the right thickness... Too thick and the footage gets blurry, too thin and the text is barely visible. I'd say 10-15mm (0.4-0,6 inches) should be optimal. (source: years of working in the plastic industry (with a lot of free time to experiment))

[morphman86]

@morphman86 Ok, brainfart... I of course meant 1-1.5 mm (0.04-0.06 inches)

[griffinity]

@morphman86, Yeah, that's the same problem I had with regular glass. The thickness causes blurriness, because the image reflects off both sides of the glass. The trick is to make one side more reflective somehow. Either it's mirrored glass, or I hear you can buy reflective film that can be applied to glass.

[morphman86]

@griffinity Carwindow shader film works fine, but then you have to over-expose the scene for it not to get too dark, which can be a pain for the actor/speaker.

[jonathanz6516]

I built a teleprompter for my ipad over the summer for professional use. I found a company at telempromptermirrors and got a 12"x12" one for a few bucks. The workflow is choppy and its easier to have the files on the iPad or in email already, but it works fine for me. I also used a 12x12 piece of 1/8" plexiglass for a while before getting the teleprompter mirror.

[shapeworkstudios1]

what's that monitor called?

[griffinity]

@shapeworkstudios1, The brand is "Leadstar," built in Hong Kong. The manufacturer produced this model last year after listening to the requests of some filmmakers on DVXUser. You can find a link in the video description to the DVXUser forum thread about the monitor.

[shapeworkstudios1]

@griffinity thanks!!

[griffinity]

@TV10News, When I first called a couple weeks ago, I asked if they had "beamsplitter glass," and the woman had never heard of that. Yesterday she said two other callers have asked for it since.

[ampsonic]

The color looks better with the mirror glass in your side by side comparison. Did you not color balance the glass shot?

[griffinity]

@ampsonic, I had, in the same room, but not in exactly the same lighting conditions. I should have, in that moment, to make the side-by-side comparison better, or left it alone to compare the color difference. (The new glass is slightly bronze in color.)

[cyrax037]

@griffinity Yeah, I was gonna say that the image through the mirrored glass was IMO much better then the regular glass. I guess the tint or something makes it look nice, idk.

[rubioproductions]

Nice idea but check out tele - prompt () com

Your Welcome! :)

[TV10News]

@rubioproductions It looks like that site only has software. That is OK - if you want to prop a laptop up under your camera lens. But what he has built here lets you look right into the lens while reading.

[FOXT18]

GOOOD :D

[bjornwitteman]

Thanx for the idea :)