DIY Prompter

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Permalink Reply by Wakeem on September 5, 2009 at 2:14am

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I hack my takes together with gaffers tape and C47s. I love that Max Headroom look!

But seriously at work we have the Jonny Prompter with Intellipromter software. I'd love to hear of a poor boy's version. I bet you could make one with my new handy dandy DIY Viore field monitor I just picked up. It has an SD slot and can play DIVIX avi files. You could render out the script as a video, pop it onto the SD card and slap a piece of glass and some good ol' DIY know how (gaffers tape) and it might just work...??
:)

Permalink Reply by Bill Mecca on September 6, 2009 at 12:59pm

it's back to school time, so I haven't had time to physically work on this project, but it is in my head. I wanted to keep in simple, and since it will probably be used for me as a solo, I wanted to avoid a second monitor. But the pitfall with that is that the keyboard section of the laptop makes it difficult to get the camera lens close to the glass. So, a cloth shroud drapes too much, so I may wind up with a rigid shroud, at least on three sides.

More to come.

Wakeem said:

Post.
I hack my takes together with gaffers tape and C47s. I love that Max Headroom look!

But seriously at work we have the Jonny Prompter with Intellipromter software. I'd love to hear of a poor boy's version. I bet you could make one with my new handy dandy DIY Viore field monitor I just picked up. It has an SD slot and can play DIVIX avi files. You could render out the script as a video, pop it onto the SD card and slap a piece of glass and some good ol' DIY know how (gaffers tape) and it might just work...??
:)

Permalink Reply by Bill Mecca on December 22, 2010 at 3:56pm

Thought I would re-visit this. Have changed tactics and design, Hope to have a prototype soon. I picked up a 7" digital TV that I will be using for a screen, the Dell D400 to run the software, now to build the platform... it's gonna resemble an old erector set...LOL  at least that's the plan

Permalink Reply by Bill Mecca on December 28, 2010 at 8:57pm

I'm at a technological roadblock. I got the monitor and vga converter, but I cannot get the proper image on the monitor. It's like the vertical hold has gone crazy.That's with the D400 notebook. So in troubleshooting mode, I took another older Dell Latitude laptop I use at work for my prompter, hooked up the VGA converter and the monitor and everything worked as it should. So I figure the issue is with the display adapter in the D400.  I updated the drivers but still no go.

Not sure what I should try next.

Bill Mecca said:

Thought I would re-visit this. Have changed tactics and design, Hope to have a prototype soon. I picked up a 7" digital TV that I will be using for a screen, the Dell D400 to run the software, now to build the platform... it's gonna resemble an old erector set...LOL  at least that's the plan