A free online mirror teleprompter
Glass teleprompters need mirrored text. Reframely mirrors any script in one tap, flips it upside down for overhead screens, and remembers the setting for your rig.
Step by step: set up a glass teleprompter rig
- Lay the screen under the glass. Put your phone or tablet face up in the tray, under the angled glass. The camera sits behind the glass and films straight through it.
- Pick your rig in Reframely. Open the sliders and choose Your rig. Tablet or Phone in a glass rig mirrors the text, so it reads the right way round in the glass.
- Turn the brightness all the way up. Beam-splitter glass passes only part of the light, so the reflection is dimmer than the screen. Full brightness and a darker room keep the words crisp.
- Check it through the camera. Look at the camera’s screen, not the tablet. If the hood’s edge shows in a wide shot, zoom in a little or widen the side margins. Then pair a clicker or your phone and press play.
Mirror, upside down, or both
- Mirror flips text left to right, for a phone or tablet lying under the glass.
- Upside down flips it top to bottom, for screens mounted above the glass.
- Both together suit some overhead and studio rigs.
Everything flips together: the reading line, fades and countdown, so what you see through the glass looks exactly like a normal prompter. Not sure which you need? See teleprompter text backwards.
Let your rig choose
Under Your rig in the sliders menu, pick your setup and Reframely sets mirroring, the reading line and text size together:
- Tablet in a glass rig: Glide Gear TMP 100, Neewer X12 and X14, Desview T3 and others.
- Phone in a glass rig: Glide Gear TMP 50, Ulanzi RT02, Padcaster Parrot, LensGo.
- Screen above the lens.
- Prompter with its own screen: Elgato Prompter.
Readable through the glass
- Three color sets: white or amber on black, or ink on paper.
- Four fonts, including a high-legibility face designed for reading at a distance.
- Adjustable line spacing, side margins and reading line position.
How to tell if you need mirroring
Hold a page of text up to a mirror: that's what a glass teleprompter does to whatever is on the screen beneath it. If your device lies under the glass, the text must be mirrored first so the reflection reads normally. If you read the screen directly, as with a laptop webcam, a phone selfie or a prompter monitor that flips the image itself, it must not be.
Mirroring on a second screen
When a laptop drives a monitor under glass, mirror the output window, not the laptop's own view. The operator reads a normal script on the laptop while the talent sees a correct reflection on the rig. The output's settings are kept separately, so each screen stays the way you set it.
Will mirrored text look odd in my video?
No. The camera films through the glass, which is clear from behind; the mirrored text appears only in the reflection that faces you. If you can see text in your shot, light is spilling into the hood: close it around the lens.
Questions
How do I mirror text for a teleprompter?
Open Reframely, tap the sliders icon and press Mirror, or choose your rig and it's set automatically.
Can I mirror text on an iPad?
Yes. Reframely runs in Safari on iPad and mirrors the text in the browser.
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