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An interview from the 2015 National Association of Broadcasters Convention in Las Vegas with Aaron Brady of Autoscript & Autocue, which are both Vitec brands. Autoscript is the world leader in the prompting industry, providing professional teleprompting equipment to broadcasters across the globe. Autocue is a provider of a broad range of tele-prompting hardware and software products for the broadcast, pro-videography, corporate and public sectors. In this interview Aaron talks with us about the iPad Teleprompter and the different types of workflows it can help manage.
By using the regular Autocue 10” mounting hardware, hood and glass, you can quickly and easily attach your iPad in place of the traditional monitor to create an iPad teleprompter. Scripts can be prepared or loaded within any of the apps available from the app store, then start scrolling – either with the start/ stop buttons in the app, or via a wired or wireless hand controller.
Autocue, the world’s leading teleprompter manufacturer, has offered iPad teleprompting solutions since the launch of the iPad, and today offers three solutions to cater for all cameras, lens types and budgets.
Autocue offer 3 iPad products – the iPad Portable, the iPad LITE and the iPad straight-read.
The iPad portable and the iPad LITE are both complete on-camera units, designed to mount to any standard tripod. They both employ a wide angle hood as standard in order to accommodate wide angle lenses and they both use the same iPad/ tablet mounting bracket. This bracket can also be adjusted and the hood removed to convert it in to straight-read prompter with the iPad below the lens – perfect for use with a light ring. The key difference is the size and functionality of the camera rig – the larger iPad portable unit can accommodate anything up to an ENG camera and has an adjustable camera mounting plate.
The smaller iPad LITE unit has a thinner mount and no height adjustment, and therefore is perfect for smaller DV and DSLR cameras. The iPad portable is also designed to be flat packed, and folds up in to very small form factor to fit in to an optional carry case. There is no carry case option for the iPad LITE.
The iPad straight-read provides an over the camera straight-read prompter that attaches the iPad mounting plate to the handle of the camera via an adjustable arm. This is a very basic set up but is often used for handheld ENG shots.
The Autocue/QTV DSLR iPad Teleprompter combined with the Wireless Transmitter Kit from Teradek, offers a lightweight, cable-free, and low-latency teleprompting solution for your DSLR or small camcorder. This kit includes the 15mm rod-mountable Autocue Starter Series iPad Teleprompter for DSLR cameras and Teradek's Cube Wireless H.264 Video Encoder. Using the Cube, you can broadcast teleprompter text straight from an SDI source over WiFi to up to three iPads running the Teradek TeraView app. The transmission delay is minimized to one frame so that on-the-fly adjustments will be reflected immediately in the prompter text. Because it is tablet based, this solution needs no wires connecting the teleprompter to its video or power sources in the studio or the field. For more versatility the teleprompter rig can be mounted on a steadicam or other equipment without the snagging or motion restrictions brought about by cabling.
For more information about Autocue please visit: http://www.Autocue.com
For more information about Autoscript please visit: http://www.Autoscript.tv
05/13/2015
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