A complete hardware package enabling you to turn an iPhone into a teleprompter (phone not included).

iPhone slots into a custom-made mounting plate to hold it securely in position beneath the broadcast quality prompter glass. This mount can be fitted in landscape or portrait mode.

The custom-made iPhone prompting plate can also be mounted in a straight-read configuration beneath the camera. When teamed with the optional pistol grip this is an ultra-lightweight, portable solution.

The remainder of the teleprompter hardware is the same as the SSP7 & QStart prompting package.

Designed to be used with the teleprompting software available for download from the iPhone App Store. Please note that this software is not designed or licensed by Autocue or QTV.

Recently I was doing work for Scottish Television and the following day was asked if I could supply Autocue for a one hour live show “The Hour” to be transmitted from Edinburgh. I had to refuse as my ProPrompter was very portable but does not perform well in daylight and is very hard to read in sunshine. This got me thinking as I do not like turning work away, especially broadcast work, this was not the first time lately that I had sweated blood over a prompting job.

I had been asked to provide a portable prompter for Jack Nicklaus at Turnberry, Scotland and it was also a very sunny day, Jack was running late and pushed the time one hour allowing the sun to creep behind some welcome clouds.

There is no doubt about it I am being asked more frequently to supply an Autocue system and took the plunge to add a Super Bright system to my hire department. To give you an idea my normal prompter is 350 Nits (Unit of brightness) and the Super bright prompter is 1600 Nits over 4 times brighter.

The new 15″ super bright LCD prompter has 4 inputs, Composite, YC, RGB and DVI. I have plumbed for DVI as it is the cleanest and digital. I bought a 5 meter DVI cable from Maplin and it also runs off 12V Lion power.

It is pictured here with the Sony EX-3.

So we are now ready for any Autocue work from 8″ portable to semi portable/studio 15″ Super Bright LCD..bring on the sunshine !

Give me a phone (07896 966 574) if you have a need a portable prompter 8″ or Super Bright prompter 15″ or send me an Email with your details smallvideo@mac.com

8.15am Driving through Glasgow heading for Scottish Television, the day started with a good cloud base, this was handy as we were shooting out of a window overlooking some of the city’s landmarks.

8.50am We are now setting up each to his own discipline, Paul the Director gives John (Cameraman) some last minute ideas about how he wants the inserts to look. John has been a freelance cameraman for a few years now and used to work as a lighting cameraman for Scottish Television before being given the golden handshake by the company. This is a move that has enhanced his career and taken him all over the world. Today he is using his trusted DigiBeta camcorder.

Our shoot today brought many disciplines together, sound (George), lighting spark (Willie), Autocue (Philip), make up artist (did not catch the ladys name) and Lorraine Kelly (Presenter).

10am Lorraine arrives and is taken to make up, we are almost ready to roll, the track, which is a Wally Dolly is set up, HMI lighting is in place and the director Paul discusses some tracking moves with cameraman John.

10.30am Lorraine gets her radio mic “pulled through” which causes some laughter, George uses an “Audio” radio mic but tells me that it will become redundant next year. If you have a UHF Wireless Microphone licence or have had frequencies licensed in channel 69 in the past two years you will already have received a letter from Ofcom regarding the proposed changes for PMSE. The letter informs licensees of Ofcom’s proposal to include channel 69 within the Digital Dividend which will be auctioned for new uses in 2010.  It also details their proposal to replace 69 with channel 38 by the end of 2012. Ch 69 is to be bought over and run by a mobile phone company.

So if you have a radio mic system you could find it is useless at some point late summer 2010.

11am The first piece to camera (PTC) is in the can and we all move to a new position, this goes on for the rest of the day till we film the last PTC is finished.

Lorraine was great to work with she is as friendly and bubbly as you see on GMTV, the programme we were working on goes out in August 2009 on Scottish Television called Scotlands DNA Secrets which is made by SMG Productions, part of STV, DNA Stories sets out to help people find answers to unresolved family issues. If selected, STV will come to film you in the comfort of your own home where the DNA sample will also be taken. When the test is complete, Lorraine will where possible bring family members together, in private, to reveal what could be life-changing results.

Lorraine says: “DNA testing is an intriguing subject and I’m very excited about filming another series of DNA Stories. I have no doubt the second series will be as successful as the first.“