Playback controls in prompter screen for use with touch screens

[philchang53]

It would be great if we could start/stop the scroll, change scroll speed, and manually scroll through the prompter text without having to back out of the prompter. As it is, If I need to repeat a middle portion of my script I need to restart the prompter and let it scroll to be portion I need to retape. It would be easier to tap the screen to stop the scroll, manually scroll to the portion I need to reshoot, then tap the screen to start the scroll. Other than this I find the application a godsend, I run it on my MS Surface Pro and just place it next to the camera or at a position I want the speaker to look towards. Works great! Thank you.

[Cuperino]

I'm glad you like it. Some of the things you mentioned can already be done using keyboard inputs:

• Spacebar pauses and resumes the prompter
• Up/Down changes scroll velocity
• Page Up / Page Down scroll up and down respectively
• Home / End keys skip between anchor flags

You can add flag by selecting text, clicking on the Red Flag icon in the editor and pressing Ok. If you type a key in the input field before pressing Ok, you can later press that key on your keyboard to move to that flag while prompting.

Taping the screen to stop and allow regular scrolling is a good idea, but unfortunately regular scrolling cannot be implemented because of architectural limitations in Imaginary Teleprompter. I've thought about adding Rewind and Fast Forward keys instead, which would work like on a tape system while it's playing. Nevertheless, this wouldn't be too different from pressing PageUp and PageDown as it is. Let me know what you think of this Rewind/FF idea.

Hope this helps!
Javier

[philchang53]

Thanks. Keyboard doesn’t help since I’m working with a tablet.