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Webcam Teleprompter Application Now that you have built your conferencing webcam teleprompter ( see "How to Build Your Own Webcam Teleprompter" in this series at Prompter-University.com) and you are making great eye contact with your chat friends, it no doubt will eventually creep into your mind that you would like to use the webcam teleprompter in its more traditional way - reading text while looking right into the webcam lens. Heck you may even want to do a small documentary, with your smiling mug on the video going on and on about something you really care about, all the while looking right into your viewers' eyes - just rivetting! Here's how to do it: First off, locate some teleprompting software that allows you to resize the window on which it is running. This is actually pretty difficult to find (even my own Teleprompter Software Packages that I sell do not allow resizing the scrolling window!), but I stumbled across Jeremy Keith's site describing a Java Prompter he built to aid him in addressing an audience at Reboot 8 in Copenhagan. His site is locate at: http://domscripting.com/blog/display/69 On his site you can download his very useful and nicely polished Java Teleprompter Software Package. The great part is his software runs in a browser under java and allows you to resize its scrolling window. And you "don't need no stinking reversing font software", since you have a double mirror webcam teleprompter! If, for some reason, Jeremy's JavaPrompter site is not avaialble for download, I keep a copy here at: http://www.Prompter-University.com/javaprompt.zip But do visit his site and tell him how much you like his Java Prompter. Now that you have JavaPrompter up and running in a separate browser window, resize and position the window to fit under your webcam teleprompter over in the upper right or left corner of your monitor. You want the window as large as possible without spilling over the sides of the mirrors, and centered directly in front of the lower mirror of your webcam teleprompter head. Use the <CTRL-UPARROW> or <CTRL-DOWNARROW> key set to change the size of the characters in the scroll window. You want as many lines of text as possible on the screen, but not so small as to not be able to read them. Use you mouse to Start/Stop the scrolling, and use the <[> or <]> keys to speed up or slow down the scroll. Now try out your Webcam Teleprompter with the sample text. Amazing, huh? Feed your webcam video to a video tape recorder, and try recording as you read along with the text scroll. Rivetting eye contact. You'll love it. Change the text to be scrolled by opening the INDEX.HTML file for JavaPrompter in an editor (Wordpad, Notepad, etc.), and carefully replace Jeremy's text with your own. You will also note that in the STYLE.CSS file, you can dictate the default character size, type and color. Now go play with the Big Guys... (C) 2009, Stewart Instruments, Inc. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED |