 Hi there welcome back to my YouTube channel. This is Daniel Rosal here So it's been a while since I've used a teleprompter and one of the reasons I've been doing a lot of these Video blogs and putting them up onto YouTube and quite close accession is I've mentioned this. I'm trying to get better at video blogging I'm trying to get better at learning especially OBS studio Which is the tool that I've been using to record these on and I love OBS There's just like so much to unpack every day. No exaggeration. I'm learning like one or two things In OBS. I'm either figuring something out or I'm trying to figure something out and Finding videos on YouTube or on the OBS forums and then learning it and if it's something that hasn't been documented Especially because I'm using OBS on Ubuntu I'll do my record my own YouTube video just so that anybody else can find out and therefore the the circle of YouTubeing continues So what I want to do today is show you guys a teleprompter if you're using Ubuntu there is a teleprompter I've only checked out this one. It's been a while since I've used as I mentioned a teleprompter So I do remember trying a few years ago, but this looks to me like there's one dominant one right now So a teleprompter you can also use like a hardware teleprompter if you've seen videos of like the president giving a speech or TV crews an anchor you you know what I'm talking about they typically have like a monitor hood And you can use like an iPad or a tablet and like beam it up So those are those are good, but if you have a multiple screen set up Why not just use your screen and have it on your computer? So that's what I'm doing now one thing I would say is just if you're using it in OBS to state the obvious But nevertheless to status You probably don't want to be showing your teleprompter in your screencast so if you're if I was doing let's say I'm Showing this screen here What I could do is have like my OBS I've shown a few times my the setup. I'm using to record these videos is kind of a three screen setup and What I could do would be to Do a screencast here on the left screen center screen I could divvy up between my OBS and the teleprompter That's if you've got two screens or if you've got three screens You could have your OBS control on one screen teleprompter second screen and Third screen being the screen you're recording so you can interact with it. Obviously Your teleprompter you ideally want to have very close to where you're looking into the webcam or looking just Just just almost into the webcam. So Telly prompters teleprompters teleprompters imaginary teleprompter Let me now go into it. So when I was looking for it, so yeah, I came across imaginary teleprompter and You can just click on the install now needless to say I'm not using a teleprompter for this video But if I were doing something like recording a video resume, which I'm thinking about doing That's when a teleprompter would come into its own you want to get that like down and Say exactly what you want to say Etc. So click on the install button here and you'll just jump down to the command for snap now The only negative thing I have to say about this teleprompter is that it didn't create a menu entry now I'm using LXDE which is already considered like very old school And I've had I've had this problem with a lot of snap packages that they're not creating menu entries and Therefore I've had to like manually create them and to be honest a lot of times. I just don't bother So I couldn't find it in anywhere here. I looked in the obvious places I mean, I'd probably expect it to be under video given that it's a video tool. It's not there What's called again imaginary? It's not under video. It's not under graphics So yeah, I didn't create one for me. So that's just a little bit of an inconvenience. So what you can do instead is just Tab out so if you forget what's that teleprompter thing called again imaginary or you can remember like half of the word You can just type it like that and tab out the rest. So here is the teleprompter and Let me just kind of show you guys how this thing works. It's pretty pretty self-explanatory, but Never that. So there's the only thing I really don't like about this I would say is that the settings settings panel is kind of limited like you can click on settings And it just like undocks here what it would have liked is Some easier to tell where you're saving it to so you can import files from so you can write your script in LibreOffice or even in a notepad and just like bring it in or you can Delete it now. I guess I guess what I would like to see is what is the save directory? Like where where are these random scripts being saved exactly? So I'm able to delete them. I'm able to add them But like what directory am I working in here? That would be useful and quite cleverly. They do have the instructions This was this is a good idea. I thought they have their instructions as a file. That's like on the teleprompter So you can control the speed and text size with up and down arrow keys. That's usually the way I use it you can Press space bar to pause at any time and that's The majority of what I would require in a teleprompter. There is one cool feature which is the Timer functionality you can set a timer, which is nice tweak the speed acceleration curve and font size And you can add images as well. So you can go through this whole Whole thing which is they have everything kind of explained over here. All data is managed locally. We retain no user We retain no user data I'm still trying to see does it say where the files are stored in any event wherever they're being stored? To create a new script for yourself is easy even within this so you can create them in You can create them in a word processor or you can click like new page here And then you can like save your script and give it a name Etc. So I'm just gonna do a demo script here instructions files and I'm going to Call this like test Scripts and let me just create a quick trip. Hi. This is Daniel rather than Randomly thinking of what to say. I've decided to start using a teleprompter teleprompters are great And what's even even greater is that even us linux People don't know the word boffin. I've been told it's a British word meaning like like someone really into it Someone like a real geek that even us linux boffins are able to partake in the fun tell e-prompters allow you to Allow you to get past the mental headache of trying to improvise your script while you're also fiddling with An endless array of controls and OBS to do now. This is just like random stuff I've just created for the for it just to demonstrate how this is gonna work So you can change the font size you can change the line height you can change at the that's a font size in M You can add elements to it like basic formatting elements You can add an image as they showed or you can edit this in HTML So you can do all these things The only thing I would really ever want in a teleprompter is just to prompt it now in the Settings menu. There are a few things that might be more interesting for people Firstly, you have the you can do you can use it in mirror mode Horizontal flip I'm gonna go for no flip But if you are using actual teleprompter hardware, you might want to do that You can adjust the speed here as well as using the arrows And the prompt you sell this is this is good This is set by default to blackboard, but you can also go for whiteboard if you prefer Black on white and I haven't looked at these This is classic yellow and you can do a custom one if you want to say what color you want your The background to be in the text to be right. I mean just gonna stick with blackboard You can update the width I'm gonna keep it at where it was a little bit more narrow and this feature is really useful You can use a timer as well. So I'm gonna do that with and without Now when I click on prompt it, I'm just using the arrow key now on my keyboard to edit the speed and To go backwards So now I'm going backwards through my script and now I'm just gonna go forwards and every time I press down arrow Now this is obviously way too slow, but if I press down arrow again, it gets quicker quicker quicker Hi, this is Daniel rather than random rather than randomly thinking what to say I've decided to start using a teleprompter teleprompters are great And what's even greater is that even as Linux boffins are able to partake in the fun Teleprompters allow you to get past the mental headache of trying to improvise your script while you're also fiddling with an endless array of controls in OBS studio So that was my that was my quick teleprompting attempt and that was how it looked up on my screen So it worked pretty nicely. Let me also Now obviously I need I need practice and there's lots of these settings I could play around with putting it a little bit further up and let me just try the timer functionality I'm going to put time remote on and Now you can see we've got it's going to move myself up here a little bit Now we've got a timer overlaid on the screen so we can see how long the segments lasting Hi, this is Daniel rather than randomly thinking what to say I've decided to start using a teleprompter teleprompters are great And what's even greater is that even us Linux boffins are able to partake in the fun Teleprompters allow you to get past the mental headache of trying to improvise your script While you're also fiddling with an endless array of controls in OBS studio All right, I think that's good enough for a sample of my Of my limited teleprompting abilities. So that's it. That was an imaginary teleprompter in OBS studio in Ubuntu Linux and a pretty good I mean from my needs I can't think of anything more I would require from a teleprompter than what it has Really useful if you're doing something that you need to stick to a script with whether that's a video video blog for your business a video blog for yourself or You know something like a video resume that you want to make sure you hit on all the points now Sometimes last thing I will say is something I do use for some videos as I'll type up like show notes and Just have those open on a mousepad and I put that somewhere Beneath my webcam layer so it can't be seen but there are definitely videos where I'm going to be using the teleprompter and Imaginary teleprompter looks to me like a pretty good tool for Ubuntu If you've enjoyed this video and like to get more videos from me about everything to do with Ubuntu Linux marketing and technology feel free to subscribe to this YouTube channel and thank you very much for watching