 If you are interested in teleprompters, then this one's for you Hello, and welcome to take one tech. My name is Alec And if you've watched my last two videos, then the content of this one will probably not be too much of a surprise to you because The first one of the last two that I did was on all about the desvue t3 teleprompter And then the one I did last was About this the lily put a 7s field monitor now the desvue is intended to be used with either an iPad or a Phone or tablet or whatever as the sort of teleprompting screen And then you can fix it to either a camera or a mobile in fact So simply slotting it over the end of your camera lens like this and that then becomes your teleprompter So as I say it's intended to be used with a mobile and the mobile comes with or you can download their mobile app To allow to give you that sort of teleprompting capability with the sort of scrolling text on the screen And it's allowed you to sort flip the text obviously as you'd need to to mirror it so that when you look at it It's the right way round which always helps when you're reading But that's not what I want this for I don't actually want to do any teleprompting as such What I want it for is to be able to have eye contact on zoom meetings or any time on Basically speaking to anyone online really and the any sort of one-to-one context or one-to-many however it is And it allows you to obviously look at the screen which is in front of the camera But then the camera is still looking at you So you end up looking at somebody rather than looking down at a picture of them on a screen below the camera like this So many meeting the zoom meetings end up being there is one slight thing that we're going to have to modify on this as a First step in order to actually make these fit and that is because the mounting hole for the the sort of Camera iPad attachment the distance between the base of that and the actual mounting hole is slightly less than the distance between The base of this and that this mounting screw fixture So all we need to do is where we've got this little hole just here We need to actually elongate that and make it a little bit longer And I've already actually done that and so that means that now the monitor will fit if I just do this This is absolutely riveting Viewing I'm sure I am actually going to do it more of a hack job on this actually But I'll explain that in a little more more detail later And hopefully that does not all end in tears as it did when I was five and a new bicycle bell and Decided to take it apart to find out how it works. I lost one crucial part So my bell no longer went ring-a-ding-ding. It just went dink. But anyway, that's another story I'll try not to repeat that this time. So now here we go we've got the the field monitor mounted on to the the desu view and Perfect, it literally just takes that hole just needs to be Maybe quarter of an inch if that higher and what you can actually do with this is on the back You've got this adjustment screw so you can make this higher and lower or closer and further away to the screen and the reason why you do that is because The closer you are to the screen obviously the more the image of the monitor fills the Screen or the reflector I should say and So yeah, that's what that's for however What I have noticed is that actually the t3 could be or the a7 could actually be even closer still to the screen and So what I'm going to do is I'm going to do a bit more of a hack job. Let me just show you what I'm planning to do There we go. I've unscrewed that now And what I'm going to do is I'm going to actually remove this piece all together because it just slides off And then what I'm going to do is using the screw that was previously holding this one in I'm actually going to Attach this part to here Now I should say this is going against all Manufacturers guidelines, and I'm only just getting started because obviously this has got this little sort of shelf thing So that makes sure it keeps it nice and level whereas now that I've just put in one screw here Then technically, you know, this can twist and turn and all those sorts of things So I do need to just make sure I get it absolutely straight And also in order to get that screw in you can see that I've sort of started to to bend the back of this a little bit So That said I'm still going to do this because I can actually get the monitor even closer So it can actually be that close and what that does is it still really fills the the sort of frame of this even more So to be taking up almost the sort of the total frame of it in terms of where when I'm looking at the reflection But what it does is it does free up as you can see this was on here It frees up almost an inch of space and why is that even an issue? Well, it is for me because I still have my monitor or my I still still have my camera Rather mounted on top of my monitor. And so that extra inch is basically an extra inch of Clearance that I've got or rather it means I can lower my camera down. So you may not have even noticed this but my camera is actually Slightly higher than it normally is and so I do want to just bring that down a bit and get it much closer to Horizontal and so that is why I'm going to do that and what I'm going to do is I'm going to actually I use this stuff Call polymorph. It's a moldable plastic I'm going to make a whole video about that as well because if you are a tech geek like me and you often find yourself Looking for sort of MacGyver solutions to problems and making little bits and bobs to solve your needs And this model of plastics really great. You just heat it up in some boiling water Take it out of the water and then you can mold it into any shape and then it sets as hard as a rock And so that is what I'm going to do with this what I plan to do is actually Cut off the bottom and then I will use some of that plastic in here to just give me the same effect as this little shelf And also just stiffen it up a little bit So so that's what I'm going to do with that and I will report back with my findings because I'm not going to use that as part of this Demo because it's not really for everybody to start cutting up bits of plastic that can't be repaired Then yeah, I'm going to leave that for another video, but it really is a Good solution and I've got to say thanks again to Keith Keith palser for recommending this because it saved me going down another route which was the glide gear and I was looking at 12 or 14 inch monitor just for a teleprompter And I think that would have been a little bit overkill for what I want because it is just for those zoom meetings And I don't need another full-scale monitor sitting right above my other monitor because I've already got this 4k one So I think I will I'll just stick with that By the way, there's a couple of things in here that the is obviously designed as a field monitor for a camera So you've got all sorts of metering and things like that on here You can have a histogram or monitor audio levels and all those sorts of things And it's just a case of going into the menus and switching all of that off because we just want a clean screen And then that this just plugs in I should also say Having said that's it. I should also say I've got a power supply here which plugs into the side like that and it's plugged in and then I've also Got a HDMI cable which plugs into here now Mentioned in my last my last video that you may want to get a an angled HDMI connector like this so that you can take your HDMI out to the side Much like that and then your HDMI can go neatly out of the back. However there's two issues for me first of all is Although I did order the right one the one that I thought I needed they sent the one going the opposite direction. So I Will have to get the other one but that goes out the front it should go out the back But in any case it can't actually go out of the back because Even if I had the one going the right way for me My power cable would be right in the way of it. So it is just going to have to be a case of I Could either get a 90 degree one turning up first and then have it go out the back like that Which actually I may end up doing or I could just use a loose cable or I could just basically leave it like that I was just looking for a way to neaten it up and not have this sort of hanging out over the top of the over the top of my monitor sort of heading back but That's my OCD kicking in again really so I'll I'll get back to you on what I do about my cable management But apart from that it's all working fine so far Well, it is now about seven hours later. I Yeah, I actually wrapped up that other video and I thought am I really that adverse to Editing that I don't just get it all set up and then add the rest on to the end because otherwise I'm gonna leave you hanging really on to as to how it actually all looks when it's in place So what that's what I've done. So I am going to tag this on to the end By the way, if I ever do edits like this, I just do them in there quick time So I just go into quick time you can do trim Crick trim clip or split clip and then delete the old end Which is what I'm gonna do and then you can just add new clip to end and that's how I'll join this video onto the first so You can do minor edits like that in their quick time quite effectively. I say quite effectively You judge for yourself how smooth it was. There'll be no transitions or anything like that. Trust me So yeah, but anyway, so let me just stop chatting on and get over to show you how everything looks So I've got my Phillips 42 inch monitor there And I should probably do a review on that actually as well. It's it's only available in Asia and Australia, I think I think it's not available in the US this particular one, but it is it is actually a monitor So it's a 4k Monitor as opposed to a 4k TV But I just like the the aspect ratio of it because it's basically like I've got four big HD monitors Sort of in a 2x2 arrangement I'm not a big fan of the really ultra Wide-screen sort of narrow thing that you end up looking all over the place for I just like a bank of four monitors And this basically does that for me Without having the sort of the seam down the middle of all the monitors. So this one works really well for me. Anyway, I'm Talking nonsense. I'm totally off topic. So this is basically this is what we're here to talk about stop Rebelling on about the the monitor Alec. This is the teleprompter in place and as you can see I've got it set to just give me the output feed from Ecamm live at the moment as I said before I'll probably just be only using this really for more like eye contact for zoom meetings. So I'll have the The zoom output there, but for the moment just put the Ecamm live one on so that you can See and yeah, if I just have a little look down here You can see that the output is coming onto this screen and then it's been reflected up onto the screen up there Which is what I can see and yeah, it fits really nicely onto the camera It's pretty pretty low profile and I did just do that little bit of adjustment to the bottom I actually cut off about an inch from the bottom of the case and then I just fixed it all together with some Moldable plastic that I use and I'm going to do a whole video on that actually because I do use it all the time and So any fellow MacGyver fans that don't mind taking a hacksaw to their electronic devices This plastic comes in really handy for that and then yeah the the cable management in the end I just used a sort of velcro cable tie to tie the cables around the back But the reason why I wanted to cut off that extra inch is because now I've got this sort of clearance underneath my monitor Whereas before it would have been hanging down a bit too far I would have could have obviously moved the monitor up But my whole point was that I wanted the the monitor as close to the TV as TV I wanted the camera as close to the monitor as possible Because obviously you don't have it too high so I end up looking like I'm just looking up at it so that is it in place and Yeah, I did obviously go through and in the settings There's lots of the default when you actually get the lily putt is that it does have like the on-screen Histogram volume levels and things like that all associated with like if you're actually using this as a field monitor with your camera But I just turned all of those things off and then I flipped the screen round One way and flipped it the other way so it now looks obviously perfect in the in the window here So all in all really happy with it and once again shout out to mr. Keith palser for the recommendation. It's certainly Certainly does it just exactly what I want and if I had gone down the the route of getting something like a glide gear or something Like that. I think that that would be Yeah, so overkill for me. So work. This is absolutely perfect. So thank you again I will obviously leave links to everything in the description That's I've used in order to get this all set up and I'll also leave a link to that video about that Moldable plastic that I'll that I used actually on this one. So I have already made the video So I'll leave a link to that as well for those who are interested But make sure you are supervised with an adult by an adult When you start taking a hacksaw to your your electronic devices and I'm not sure I'm a responsible adult really but Anyway, there you go. That's another story for another video. 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Will leave a link to all the videos that I've mentioned and things like that in the description obviously as always But in the meantime, feel free to check out some of my other videos coming up on screen next Have a great day