Teleprompter for live events.

Import

Bring the client's script in with its formatting.

Word and PDF documents arrive with their sizes, colors, bold and italics carried over. A PDF is rebuilt from its page layout, so check the result. Styles that live on Word's paragraph styles are resolved too, so the whole script sizes together on the slider. Text boxes come through; footnotes, endnotes and comments are counted and reported. Pictures are not imported.

RTF, plain text and Rotulus's own files open the same way. Insert a second file at the caret when a late page arrives.

Present

A clean show display, and an operator view beside it.

Press F5 and the script fills a black screen with a guide arrow at the reading line. With a second display, the show goes there and the operator keeps the editor, the runlist and the transport on the laptop.

• Mirror mode for beam-splitter glass
• Screen Black on one shortcut, clock and time-remaining overlays
• Display Check warns about cloned screens, 24 Hz outputs and battery power before the show

Show Sync

A second laptop that follows the first.

Pair two machines with a code over an Ethernet cable or Wi-Fi. The backup follows the script, the speed and the position. If the primary dies, the backup is already on the same line at the same speed, and one key makes it the operator's machine.

The link is encrypted with a key made from the pairing code, and the backup won't take a push that would overwrite its own unsaved edits unless you force it.

Control

Drive it with what is already in the room.

Play, pause and speed live on the keyboard and the transport bar. The mouse wheel scrubs when paused and trims the speed when playing; middle-click engages a steady autoscroll.

Plug in a game controller: the triggers set the speed (or drive it only while held, if you prefer), the stick scrubs, and holding a button blacks the screen. Play, pause, speed and position are followed by the display and the backup.

Runlist & editing

Every script for the night in one list.

Load the whole show into the runlist, reorder it by drag, save it as one file and reopen it on the show laptop. Bookmarks mark cues you can jump to with a key; speaker names become colored chips; Find & Replace and Format Script tidy a client's document in seconds.

Each save first copies the file it replaces into a backups folder, and auto-save snapshots your runlist so the Recover window can offer it after a crash. A failed save is reported beside the file name, and an import note counts any footnotes, endnotes or comments left behind.