Free, Open-Source Teleprompter Software...Perfect for Video Salespages

Originally Posted by KK.org

One of the things that helps me satisfy both itches is a program called TeleKast. It's an open-source teleprompter software. For those of you not familiar with teleprompters, they're devices used to make TV hosts, newscasters and politicians seem as though they're looking right at you as they speak, when in reality they're reading from scripts rolling up on screens, right underneath the camera's lens.

TeleKast lets me do the same job at a fraction (as in 0%) of the cost of a professional teleprompter package. TeleKast provides a Script Editor window to type in my script. Another window called Segments allows me to organize my script into scenes. While I'm working on a script, I can see it in the upper-right hand Segment Preview window. I can also add cues for camera, audio, video, talent and one for other. When I'm ready to roll, there's a pop-up window that scrolls up my text to read while I record my on-camera or voice-over work. I can adjust the text size and scroll speed and the text background and cue colors. I can start and stop scrolling with the space bar. It's simple, flexible, powerful.