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Teleprompters

Teleprompter hardware consists of a one-way mirror mounted at 45 degrees to your camera lens and a screen, allowing you to look directly “through” your presenter notes into the camera lens, thus maintaining eye contact while reading.

Teleprompter Options

Teleprompter Options

Large (iPad-sized)

Small (iPhone-sized)

iPhone-only

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Desktop HUD

Extend your desktop onto an external monitor placed in your teleprompter and drag your program preview or video call window onto this display.

You need to be running a presentation for the Desktop HUD to work.

Launch Beat Sheet’s Desktop HUD from the menu, or with Cmd+Shift+D.

This gives you a transparent window that can be dragged on top of your program preview or video call.

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You can see the notes from your card in the middle of the window.

Change the size of this text using the Desktop HUD menu’s Zoom In and Zoom Out options.

Beneath your notes, you will see a preview of your next card.

On the bottom right, you can see how long your presentation has been running.

External Display Options

You can extend your desktop onto any small display compatible with your Mac, usually over HDMI.

The issue with most displays is that the screen will be mirrored and everything will appear back-to-front and illegible.

Lilliput monitor ⭐️

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This Lilliput monitor⁠

provides the option to flip the display for a teleprompter, resolving this problem.

Use the display’s settings to flip for the teleprompter.

Other monitors (without teleprompter flip feature)

If you can’t flip your monitor for a teleprompter, you can still use Beat Sheet’s Desktop HUD.

Use the “Flip Desktop HUD” option in the Desktop HUD menu to flip the HUD text.

Your mouse pointer will still move the wrong way when you navigate your external monitor, and all other text will still be back-to-front, but if you’re on Zoom or recording a simple face-to-camera video, you might be able to get by!

iPad

Duet ⭐️

Duet is an iPad app that lets you use your iPad to extend your desktop. You’ll need to install an app on your Mac to make this work.

With a paid plan (about $20/year) you can unlock the ability to flip this display for your teleprompter.

(If you can’t find the right plan, make sure you’re disconnected from your Mac and then find the option on your iPad - it’s not available to purchase via the Mac app).

You can run Duet wirelessly or over USB (Michael’s preferred method).

With an iPad, you’ll get better resolution and colour than most dedicated displays, so it’s a great option.

Sidecar

You can use Sidecar on your iPad to use it as an external display. Since this doesn’t have a “flip for teleprompter” feature, you’ll have to deal with the mirrored content.

Use the “Flip Desktop HUD” option in the Desktop HUD menu to flip the HUD text.

iPhone

Shoot

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Shoot⁠

lets you use your iPhone as a webcam and can also work as a teleprompter.

If you launch Shoot and Beat Sheet on devices connected to the same network, Beat Sheet will automatically connect. Your notes will appear on your iPhone’s screen near the camera.

Here’s a video explaining this in more detail.

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