WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:05.280 I host a lot of videos, and if you watch ShortCircuit and compare it to TechLinked or GameLinked, 00:00:05.280 --> 00:00:09.600 you might be able to tell, I do better when I'm reading. I'm like a Ron Burgundy type of situation, 00:00:09.600 --> 00:00:16.000 so I was really excited when Elgato announced the Promptor. It's an all-in-one teleprompter 00:00:16.640 --> 00:00:23.120 setup with a single cable that you can plug into your computer or phone, and immediately 00:00:23.760 --> 00:00:27.120 seem like you know what you're talking about. Now, if you don't know what a teleprompter is, 00:00:27.120 --> 00:00:32.480 it's just basically a screen that reflects a script up onto a piece of glass that sits in 00:00:32.480 --> 00:00:37.200 front of a camera so you can read the script as you're hosting. It's my whole life, basically. 00:00:37.200 --> 00:00:44.560 Let's move this to the other side and see what's in this box. Promptor. USB cable. 00:00:44.560 --> 00:00:51.360 USB-C? Ooh, a right angle. Okay, USB-A to USB-C right angle cable. I don't know how long it is. 00:00:51.440 --> 00:00:58.720 Seems pretty long, though. Braided. Durable. Universal Shroud and a DSLR mirrorless backplate. 00:00:58.720 --> 00:01:03.840 So this is going to let you use this Promptor with a bunch of different cameras, either a webcam, 00:01:03.840 --> 00:01:10.720 the Elgato webcams, or a dedicated camera that you bring yourself from home. I don't know how 00:01:10.720 --> 00:01:17.840 this works yet because I'll figure that out later. Step up rings to step up your hosting 00:01:17.840 --> 00:01:23.120 video to a streaming game. So these are rings that would basically serve as adapters to allow 00:01:23.120 --> 00:01:27.280 you to fit them into the Promptor properly, depending on what your camera and lens situation is. 00:01:27.280 --> 00:01:33.360 I like how the packaging is all cardboard, not a lot of plastic in here. Okay, let's get the Promptor 00:01:33.360 --> 00:01:42.400 out itself. At least it's key. Two pieces. Okay, this looks like the platform that the camera goes 00:01:42.400 --> 00:01:49.120 on. And sure enough, it's nothing. They can't slip it past me. Wow, okay. I gotta say, like, 00:01:49.120 --> 00:01:53.760 compared to the Promptors that we work with here and the Promptors that I've seen elsewhere, 00:01:53.760 --> 00:01:58.720 this looks slick. Like, this is a slick-looking Promptor. Maybe I'm being silly here, 00:01:58.720 --> 00:02:04.160 but I appreciate that there's sort of this, like, matte, nice finish on it. Like, it doesn't look 00:02:04.160 --> 00:02:09.760 like cheap plastic or anything. And they have this cool, like, design on the bottom, signifying brains 00:02:09.760 --> 00:02:16.720 because if you use one of these things, you're smart. Gotta say, that's a very, very small window. 00:02:16.720 --> 00:02:21.200 I don't see how you're going to put in a DSLR lens in there, but it's because this is a plate 00:02:21.200 --> 00:02:26.480 you can take off. It says for Facecam Pro. There we go. That looks like the Promptors I'm used to 00:02:26.480 --> 00:02:31.200 working with. However, we also have a mirrorless camera with a lens that we're going to try and 00:02:31.200 --> 00:02:35.840 fit on there and see how that works. It looks like you can take the tablet off. And sure enough, 00:02:35.840 --> 00:02:42.800 there are screws on the back there. So I'm guessing you can remove the tablet if you want, but... 00:02:42.800 --> 00:02:50.240 Now, the tablet itself is a 9-inch screen. It's a 1024x600 resolution. And you might be saying, 00:02:50.240 --> 00:02:54.320 that's too low for gaming? Well, yeah, no, you're not gaming. All you're going to do is, like, 00:02:54.320 --> 00:02:59.120 put text on here. So it doesn't need to be super, super high resolution. However, this 00:02:59.120 --> 00:03:06.080 mirrored display, hello. The glass portion of display is obviously, you know, it's a bit 00:03:06.080 --> 00:03:11.920 bigger than the 9-inch display. It's a bit taller and it's got optical grade 7030 beam 00:03:11.920 --> 00:03:16.000 splitter glass is what they call it, which just means, you know, it's mirrored. So you can see 00:03:16.000 --> 00:03:23.760 what's on the display, on the mirrored glass. Now, as for ports on the tablet itself, as advertised, 00:03:23.760 --> 00:03:29.920 there's just this single USB-C port, which you can connect to your Windows PC, or your Mac, 00:03:29.920 --> 00:03:35.760 or your Android. First of all, let's connect the webcam. Elgato says that they have, you know, 00:03:35.760 --> 00:03:40.960 very wide compatibility for a lot of different camera setups. Hopefully the setup process 00:03:41.920 --> 00:03:48.720 isn't that confusing. Okay, so this is the camera platform, and then you can slide it up and down, 00:03:48.720 --> 00:03:55.040 depending on how big your camera is going to be. Oh, it's supposed to actually fit into that little 00:03:55.040 --> 00:04:02.400 window. Okay, yeah, yeah. Okay, see that, that's nice. Let me just say so far, this is real smooth. 00:04:02.400 --> 00:04:10.000 I mean, having a teleprompter made by a company that makes webcams is immediately nice because 00:04:10.000 --> 00:04:16.080 they have this like perfect cutout for their webcam that they sell. Okay, and now on the bottom, 00:04:16.080 --> 00:04:21.600 we have these tripod mounts. So you can, I guess you could either use this one or that one, or both. 00:04:22.800 --> 00:04:27.440 Accessories. We also have these two cold shoe mounts on the top. So you have like a mini shotgun 00:04:27.440 --> 00:04:32.960 mic that you use for your setup, then you can just stick it right in there. All right, we are here 00:04:32.960 --> 00:04:39.200 with the Elgato prompter setup. It's asking me if I'm ready to roll the camera, and believe me, I am. 00:04:39.760 --> 00:04:47.120 Very exciting. So once you connect the tablet via the USB-C cable to your laptop, you can install 00:04:47.120 --> 00:04:52.320 the Elgato Camera Hub software if you don't have it installed already, because it's the same software 00:04:52.320 --> 00:04:57.440 that you use with your webcam. You go into the prompter section, and here you go. You got your 00:04:57.440 --> 00:05:04.880 script. You got some options on the side here for brightness. Yes, I can make it darker, brighter. 00:05:05.440 --> 00:05:12.160 You have the content window where you can change it to be either text showing your script that you 00:05:12.160 --> 00:05:18.640 wrote or whatever, or you can have it as a secondary monitor, or an even better option if it works. 00:05:18.640 --> 00:05:25.840 It's in beta right now is this chat integration, where you can give it your Twitch channel and 00:05:25.840 --> 00:05:30.560 an optional title, and then it will like display the chat in their own style. We're going to test 00:05:30.560 --> 00:05:37.360 this out by linking to just a random Twitch streamer that we thought of, Kit Boga. Okay, there it is. 00:05:38.320 --> 00:05:44.560 That's pretty cool. And now we're recording on the Elgato Facecam Pro, and indeed, I mean, you 00:05:44.560 --> 00:05:51.680 tell me, can you see the chat flipping by? No. Now, pretend this is a live stream, and I'm reading 00:05:51.680 --> 00:05:58.080 this comment from you in real time. So much sauce today. How did that feel? Felt pretty good 00:05:58.080 --> 00:06:02.960 to have eye contact while that happened, didn't it? Now, depending on how fast the chat is going, 00:06:02.960 --> 00:06:07.600 I'm not sure how engaging this is going to be for the people making chat messages, especially when 00:06:07.600 --> 00:06:11.200 it's going this fast, as like someone's looking at the camera, like, is it better to have somebody 00:06:11.200 --> 00:06:16.320 looking at the camera and trying to like read, or is it like, is it better to have them looking down 00:06:16.320 --> 00:06:21.040 here and trying to read? Because in both scenarios, if they're actually reading your comment talking 00:06:21.040 --> 00:06:26.560 to you through the camera, great, there's connection, there's parasocial dynamics going on here, and that's 00:06:26.560 --> 00:06:31.840 exciting. But if you're just looking up at the chat and just being like, oh, it's going so fast, 00:06:31.840 --> 00:06:36.640 there's got to be a way to like slow it down. Are there settings for the chat? Oh, font size. Okay. 00:06:37.360 --> 00:06:43.520 Yeah, you can make, you can change the font size down to 10 point, which is far too little to see, 00:06:43.520 --> 00:06:48.640 unless I mean, if this was right up here, I could, that's, that's readable, because that's 00:06:48.640 --> 00:06:55.600 one of the big selling points of this thing, because it's so small, yet so clear, and so easy to use, 00:06:55.600 --> 00:07:01.280 and so built for wide angle cameras, you can bring this thing right up over your monitor, 00:07:01.280 --> 00:07:05.520 as opposed to like big giant teleprompter setups, which are like way more clunky, and you have to 00:07:05.520 --> 00:07:10.160 have like heavy monitor arms and stuff, and whatever, you could just like put this thing on a box, 00:07:10.160 --> 00:07:15.040 don't put it on a box, you're better than that. Oh, you can bring it more into the center or over 00:07:15.040 --> 00:07:20.880 to the side, you can have the text to be, oh, you can have completely custom colors for the text 00:07:20.880 --> 00:07:27.600 and background, red on white, if you want, let's see if the background color affects the actual 00:07:27.600 --> 00:07:32.960 video, but yes, and it does, so that's somewhat unsurprising, if you make the background color 00:07:33.600 --> 00:07:39.600 white, you can, but it will affect, you'll be able to see that your recording is a little bit more 00:07:39.600 --> 00:07:46.800 washed out, so just be aware, you can also change the font, ooh, if you want impact, but no, no 00:07:46.800 --> 00:07:55.040 comic sans, there's no opacity slider as well, if you want to have something behind the actual text, 00:07:55.040 --> 00:07:58.560 I can't think of an example off the top of my head that that would be useful for, but there 00:07:58.560 --> 00:08:02.640 definitely is something, and the last section here is called scrolling, you have an auto scroll 00:08:02.640 --> 00:08:08.160 chapter button, which basically means, is it gonna stop after it finishes the chapter, or is it gonna 00:08:08.160 --> 00:08:12.640 keep scrolling through each of these chapter sections you have in your script? Okay, let's see 00:08:12.640 --> 00:08:19.040 how this goes, Scripts.com, Bee Movie by Jerry Seinfeld, narrator, black screen with text, the 00:08:19.040 --> 00:08:25.120 sound of buzzing bees can be heard, according to unknown modes of aviation, what's the deal with 00:08:25.120 --> 00:08:32.720 bees? My main complaint so far seems to be that when you can scroll in the software here very 00:08:32.720 --> 00:08:39.280 easily and kind of see, oh okay, I see at a glance the whole script, but I can't see an easy way to 00:08:39.280 --> 00:08:45.040 scroll on the tablet, unless I'm just like, you can split it into chapters, and then you can hit 00:08:45.040 --> 00:08:50.080 the skip back and skip forward button to like jump to certain chapters, but with our prompter 00:08:50.080 --> 00:08:56.000 software that we use, you can scroll up and down, like it's a, this is not a touchscreen, right? No, 00:08:56.000 --> 00:09:01.920 it's not, so you can just scroll up and down either with the touchscreen because we use iPads for that, 00:09:01.920 --> 00:09:07.760 or we have remotes that you can scroll up and down on the script, as a video host, I really 00:09:07.760 --> 00:09:13.120 appreciate that, and I can't see an easy way to do that unless I'm tripping. Now you don't have to 00:09:13.120 --> 00:09:19.040 use the Elgato Camera Hub software, if you just plug it in and don't launch the app, or if you 00:09:19.040 --> 00:09:24.000 select display in the app, it just shows up as another monitor, so you can throw anything on there, 00:09:24.000 --> 00:09:29.920 you can even play a game on there, which I, now that I've said it, I want to do. This is not a good 00:09:29.920 --> 00:09:36.240 idea, so yeah, you can play a game on it, you can do anything you would do with an external display. 00:09:36.240 --> 00:09:45.520 Playing with a laptop trackpad and a teleprompter as a display. I can see a whole new genre of 00:09:45.520 --> 00:09:52.640 video game streaming, where you still see the game is still the majority of the screen for the viewer, 00:09:52.640 --> 00:09:59.840 but then the Incept webcam is you looking, wow, do you feel like you're there? Yeah, when I'm 00:09:59.840 --> 00:10:05.440 watching the streamer, I really feel like I am his computer. Okay, the last thing that I wanted to 00:10:05.440 --> 00:10:11.280 see was how easy it is to connect a mirrorless camera with a big old lens on it, as opposed to 00:10:11.280 --> 00:10:17.440 just like plugging in Elgato's own webcam. They include a bunch of these adapter rings, so let's 00:10:17.440 --> 00:10:25.760 check it out. Okay, let's take this, the adapter plate for the webcam off, and put on the adapter 00:10:25.760 --> 00:10:37.840 plate for mirrorless lenses. Okay, and now this, what is this camera here, Glenn? It's a Sony A9 00:10:37.840 --> 00:10:45.840 with a 24 to 105 millimeter lens, but the mount on the front fits 77 millimeter adapters, and the 00:10:45.840 --> 00:10:54.480 Elgato prompter comes with nine sizes from 49 millimeters to 82 millimeters, and we have a 77 00:10:54.480 --> 00:11:00.320 millimeter adapter right here. It's just got a little bit, it's like, it barely looks like anything, 00:11:00.320 --> 00:11:07.520 but there's a little bit of a lip there that's going to allow you to slide it in to this adapter 00:11:08.320 --> 00:11:14.320 so that it stays in place. So there it is, that's not going anywhere. A specific issue that we're 00:11:14.320 --> 00:11:20.240 running into here is that this is kind of a long lens, the 24 to 105, and most lenses that you're 00:11:20.240 --> 00:11:24.400 going to use with a teleprompter are going to be on the wider side, which means that they're going 00:11:24.400 --> 00:11:30.960 to be on the shorter side. Now, because this lens is long, the included mount doesn't let us, 00:11:31.760 --> 00:11:36.160 you know, it doesn't let you connect from the mount to this part of the prompter, you can connect 00:11:36.160 --> 00:11:40.000 it to the camera just fine, or you can connect it to the prompter just fine, but not both. 00:11:40.000 --> 00:11:46.560 So in this situation, if you really needed to use this lens, then you would have the camera mounted 00:11:46.560 --> 00:11:51.200 on a tripod and then have another tripod or a C-stand or something connected to the bottom 00:11:51.200 --> 00:11:56.800 thingies there. So then you'd have two things, you know, two supports for your setup. A better 00:11:56.800 --> 00:12:03.680 solution would be just to, you know, use a shorter lens that actually can work with this mount. 00:12:03.680 --> 00:12:09.600 It doesn't give you a ton of room, depending on your camera. Like, you need to have a pretty 00:12:09.600 --> 00:12:15.440 short lens for that to line up properly. You know what, scratch that, I have this the wrong way, 00:12:15.440 --> 00:12:20.320 so it's supposed to go this way, and that leaves you more, you know, a little bit more room, but 00:12:20.320 --> 00:12:26.080 it's still, this lens still doesn't cut it for this setup. But just be aware, if you want to use 00:12:26.080 --> 00:12:32.480 a mirrorless camera or another camera with like a big lens on it, this may be an issue you could 00:12:32.480 --> 00:12:37.440 run into. But the mount not fitting isn't the end of the world as Elgato does show that you can hang 00:12:37.440 --> 00:12:41.600 the prompter off the end of the lens. If you're comfortable with that, I'd still prefer to set 00:12:41.680 --> 00:12:45.920 up an additional support for the prompter just to be extra safe, but it's not 100% necessary. 00:12:45.920 --> 00:12:52.480 Now, all that said, for an all-in-one solution with a tablet included and software that makes 00:12:52.480 --> 00:12:59.680 things pretty easy to use, this thing is $280, ships in March. You know, that's not bad for an 00:12:59.680 --> 00:13:04.400 all-in-one, easy-to-use setup. I think there's a lot of teleprompter setups that you have to 00:13:04.400 --> 00:13:10.720 like supply your own tablet or whatever. Overall, pretty happy, nice job Elgato. I don't want to 00:13:10.720 --> 00:13:15.840 switch to this for our videos because it's a little small and we have our cameras far away, 00:13:15.840 --> 00:13:20.800 but I think for independent video creators who are kind of making videos on their own and you're 00:13:20.800 --> 00:13:24.960 in your, you know, personal studio in your bedroom or whatever, I think that having something like 00:13:24.960 --> 00:13:29.840 this where you can have a wide angle setup with a easy-to-use teleprompter or for Twitch streamers 00:13:29.840 --> 00:13:34.880 or whatever, doesn't seem like too bad of an idea. Hey, that was a ShortCircuit. Thanks for watching. 00:13:34.880 --> 00:13:38.560 Subscribe to the channel. And if you're looking for something else to watch, I got a hot tip for 00:13:38.560 --> 00:13:46.000 you here. This PIKTO wireless gaming thing that I took a look at, that was pretty crazy. Wow.