Capability

The teleprompter in Rooster's recorder

In active development · Not yet released

Rooster's teleprompter is part of its recorder rather than a separate app. Paste or import a script, set the type size and the scroll speed, and it advances a line at a time while you record. It can be shown in the recording or kept out of it entirely.

A script beside the record button

The teleprompter is a button in the recorder - in the top bar of the floating panel the screen modes use, and in the control dock of the camera recorder. It opens a resizable window of its own that floats above the app, so a scripted piece does not need a second device propped against the monitor.

While it is stopped the window is a text editor: type into it, paste into it, or import a plain text or Markdown file. Press play and it becomes the reading view - the current line held at full strength and the rest dimmed, if you have left Focus current line on. Where the script has its own line breaks Rooster keeps them; where it does not, the words are grouped into short lines.

Two sliders set the reading: type size, and the speed at which lines advance. The transport is play, pause and rewind to the top. Auto-scroll when recording begins is on by default, so pressing record starts the script as well.

Whether the teleprompter appears in the recording is a toggle, and it is off by default. Rooster's windows are excluded from a screen capture as a rule, and this is the one that can be let back in - the capture filter recognises the teleprompter's window by name and includes it when you have asked for it.

What is on screen

  • The script

    Type or paste it into the window, or use Import script to read a plain text or Markdown file. Importing rewinds to the top.

  • Size and speed

    Two sliders in the toolbar: the type size of the script, and how quickly the reading view advances from one line to the next.

  • Play, pause, rewind

    The transport, with rewind returning to the first line. Auto-scroll when recording begins can start it for you when the take starts.

  • Mirror and flip

    Mirror horizontally and flip vertically, for reading off a beam splitter rather than off the screen directly.

  • Light or dark

    One button switches the reading view between a dark background and a light one.

  • Show teleprompter in recording

    Off by default, so the script window stays out of the capture. Turned on, it is the one Rooster window a screen recording is allowed to contain.

Every capability Rooster ships is listed on the features page, and how the work is split between your Mac and everything else is on how it works.

What it does not do

  • It scrolls on a timer at the speed you set. It does not listen to you and does not follow your place in the script.
  • The transport is play, pause and rewind. There is no step-a-line control and no jump to a marked point.
  • The script lives with the recorder for as long as Rooster is running. It is not saved into a project or written back out to a file, so a script you want to keep belongs in a text file you import.
  • There is no remote control and no phone app. The controls are in the teleprompter's own window.
  • There is no timing estimate, word count or countdown to the end of the script.
  • It opens from Rooster's recorder. It is not a standalone teleprompter product, and the show-in-recording toggle applies to Rooster's own capture.

This list is here because the alternative is a reader installing Rooster and finding out. If one of these is the job you need done, the alternatives page ranks tools that do it.

Frequently asked questions

Is Rooster's teleprompter a separate app?

No. It is part of the recorder, opened from a button beside the record control, in a floating window of its own. Rooster is a video editor with a teleprompter in it rather than a teleprompter with a recorder attached, and if a standalone prompter is what you are shopping for, that difference matters.

Will the teleprompter show up in my recording?

Only if you ask for it. Rooster's own windows are kept out of a screen capture, and the teleprompter is the one that can be let back in, through a toggle that is off by default.

Can I import a script?

Yes, from a plain text or Markdown file. You can also type or paste directly into the window, which is the same editor.

Does it scroll at the speed I am talking?

No. It advances a line at a time on a timer set by the speed slider. There is no voice tracking, so on a long take you set a pace you can read to rather than expecting it to follow you.

Does Rooster remember my script?

It stays in the teleprompter while Rooster is open, but it is not saved into a project or exported to a file. Keep the script in a text file and import it, and nothing is lost when you quit.

The rest of the loop

  • Screen recording on your Mac

    A display or one window, with Mac audio and your microphone, cropped to the shape you are publishing in.

  • Transcription that runs on your Mac

    Parakeet or whisper.cpp running in Rooster's own process, with the word timings the rest of the editor is built on.

  • Captions from your own transcript

    Four presets over the transcript's own timings, adjustable down to the outline, burned into the export and written as SRT and VTT.

  • Removing filler words

    Every hesitation in the transcript, played in context, cut as one undoable step when you approve it.

  • Studio Sound

    DeepFilterNet 3 on your Mac, with a strength control and A/B playback before anything is kept.

  • Eye Contact

    A restrained, on-device gaze correction with three strengths and A/B playback. Beta, and labelled so in the app.