My iPad Teleprompter Setup

Well, I’ve started writing my scripts for my upcoming training website, The WordPress Dojo. One of the exciting things about doing video work is all the gadgets you get to use while making it, especially on a shoestring budget!

While your typical hardware-based teleprompter setup can run somewhere in the hundreds, if not thousands of dollars depending on the surrounding hardware, I MacGyver-ed myself a teleprompter setup with equipment I already had, plus a $15 software program for the iPad.

The major trick is that I used an iPad stand that I zip-tied to the tripod to hold it up close to the camera lens so it won’t look so much like I’m reading from another source, glancing away from the lens every now and again.

(Stay tuned for a future update on this – I bought a pretty neat gadget that will make it even better!)

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