Capability

The teleprompter in Rooster's recorder

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Rooster's teleprompter is part of its recorder rather than a separate app. Paste, type or import a script, set the type size and a reading rate in words a minute, and it scrolls smoothly past a marker while you record. The script is saved with the project, and the window can be shown in the recording or kept out.

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.

The window is the script's editor and its reader at once: type into it, paste into it, or import a plain text or Markdown file. Press play and the script scrolls continuously up past a marker a little under half way down the window, with the line at the marker held at full strength and the rest dimmed, if you have left Focus current line on. Pause and the text stays exactly where it was, so you can correct a word and carry on from the same place; scrolling by hand moves where play resumes. Your own line breaks are kept, and long lines wrap to the width of the window.

Two sliders set the reading: type size, and a reading rate in words a minute, printed beside the slider. The rate is spread over the whole script, so it holds whatever the window's width or type size. The transport is play, pause and rewind to the top, and Auto-scroll when recording begins is on by default, so pressing record starts the script as well.

The script is saved with the project as you type, and comes back when you open the recorder on that project again. A script written before there is a project - from the Welcome screen - is kept with the project the take creates.

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. The script is saved with the open project, or with the project your next take creates if none is open.

  • Size and rate

    Two sliders in the toolbar: the type size of the script, and the reading rate in words a minute, which sets how fast the script scrolls past the marker.

  • Play, pause, rewind

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

  • Mirror and flip

    Mirror horizontally and Flip vertically are toggles in the teleprompter's settings pop-over, behind the gear in its toolbar, for reading off a beam splitter rather than off the screen directly.

  • Light or dark

    A Dark theme toggle in the same pop-over switches the reading view between a dark background and a light one.

  • Show teleprompter in recording

    A toggle in the settings pop-over, off by default, so the script window stays out of the capture. Turned on, it is the one Rooster window a recording of a whole display is allowed to contain; recording a single window captures that window alone.

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.

How to use it

What it does not do

  • It scrolls at the rate you set. It does not listen to you and does not follow your place in the script.
  • The transport is play, pause and rewind to the top, and scrolling by hand moves the read. There is no step-a-line control and no jump to a marked point.
  • The script is saved into the project, not written back out to a text file.
  • The type size, rate, mirror, flip and theme are not saved. They last until you close Rooster's window or quit, and then return to their defaults.
  • 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 in the recorder's controls, 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 scrolls continuously at the reading rate you set, in words a minute. 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?

Yes. The script is saved with the project as you type, and it is there again when you open the recorder on that project. A script written before any project exists is kept with the project your take creates. It is not exported to a text file.

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.