Teleprompters are clever, simple, and also pretty neat

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Yep. Teleprompters. That's what this video's about.
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Firstly, since everybody's gonna ask, this is the teleprompter I use;
www.amazon.com/Glide-Gear-TMP...
Of note is that it's quite heavy so you will need a substantial tripod to use it. As far as your display? Again. Don't ask me that.
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[@Megamean09]

I remember when my teleprompter broke. I was speechless.

[@richardnixon2639]

Get out... ... but come back immediately 'cause you still need to finish your speech

[@zappawench6048]

Kinda like when I lost my mood bracelet. I didn't know how to feel about that...

[@hudde814]

@@zappawench6048 Oh man that reminded me of the time I got hit with a baseball. At the time I didn't know why it was getting bigger, and then it hit me.

[@comment2009]

Happens all the time in news. You should have had a paper back up to your pun.

[@crispoman]

Someone asked me how I felt when my dictionary ran away. Words escaped me.

[@TonkarzOfSolSystem]

When you realize this channel is filmed in an empty living room not some kind of wondrous technology museum.

[@PanduPoluan]

THE ILLUSION IS GONE AND MY CHILDHOOD HAS BEEN RUINED

[@Thametownguy]

His mind is some kind of wondrous technology museum.

[@wohlhabendermanager]

@@PanduPoluan I felt the same when I found out Clint from LGR films most of his stuff in a storage room and not at his house.

[@TheGuyThatEveryoneIgnores]

I thought these videos are shot in his parents' basement. ;)

[@aidancommenting]

@@wohlhabendermanager Wh.. what? He has a nice.. floor.. in his storage room. Very woodgrain-y

[@TheGeekPub]

You're also quite good at reading from one. That's not something most people can do without significant practice!

[@ceterfo]

You mean like presidential candidates.

[@HolographicSweater]

i am good at reading too, you don’t see me bragging about it!!

[@ceterfo]

@@HolographicSweater I do now.

[@loganoderkirk]

I think it helps if you write the content! But I also agree that he is very good

[@volcimaster]

...probably because he has "significant practice" :)

[@michaelbonilla5339]

I watched this a day before a major presentation was due for an online college speech class. I had no idea how simple teleprompters were. Me and my son made one out of cardboard, glass from a picture frame and an web based teleprompter app. Just got my grade today. 100%! This is all because of you. Thank you for the great videos.

[@tanya5322]

Michael Bonilla that’s awesome

[@BikingVikingHH]

So you cheated? And your son helped? Cool story bro.

[@attilatormasi1733]

@@BikingVikingHH it's a presentation not a test dude

[@the_undead]

​@@BikingVikingHHdepending on exactly what they were going to college for, they might end up using a teleprompter anyway, so if anything that would increase their mark

[@christianseibold3369]

@@BikingVikingHH Wait, how is it cheating? What matters in a presentation is the presentation, not the memorization of words. News flash, but many many professors and those who do presentations have notes either on the computer, or printed out on paper. Hence why Google Docs and Powerpoint both have the notes section with a fancy presentation mode that shows the notes on one screen and presents the presentation to the other screen.

[@brendan9734]

"I am now looking slightly above the camera lens." "I am now looking slightly below the camera lens." *"I AM NOW STARING DIRECTLY INTO YOUR SOUL"*

[@monad_tcp]

I don't have soul, jokes on you

[@mumblbeebee6546]

"Next time we will be talking about animated zoneplates. Please make sure you remember all of your bank details for that...."

[@morganrussman]

(laughs) I know, he definitely missed a opportunity there. :D

[@josephcote6120]

You want staring into your soul? kzbin.info

[@Andytlp]

Haha i have no soul. Just hope my particles will at some point go back into making a star.

[@ForumArcade]

"I am going to try my hardest to produce a low-effort video." You have already failed sir.

[@user-rh8hi4ph4b]

Task failed successfully.

[@WarriorsPhoto]

This was pretty low-effort for His videos. ;)

[@benjaminmiddaugh2729]

Congratulations! By succeeding at your attempt to fail, you have now failed successfully! Or was it that you failed at your attempt to succeed and thereby successfully failed? I can never keep those two straight.

[@LeviathanRX]

"I'm gonna try my best to not try my best" -Annette

[@PrincessLorelei]

@@benjaminmiddaugh2729 Don't lose sleep over it, it's basically the divide by zero error for language.

[@MakersMuse]

I own a teleprompter, use a teleprompter... yet found this video too fascinating to stop watching. I, too, cannot recommend the software I'm forced to use. Is this a thing?

[@mattr2238]

I think it's a psychological thing

[@tijhevella-verney3609]

The aptly named iPad application ‘Teleprompter’ has been fantastic to use, and is an application I can whole heartedly suggest (so long as you have an iPad). The premium version is worth it, but the free version is perfect as well just limited to a handful of scripts and no keyboard interface.

[@SlightlyNasty]

Another cool use of teleprompters is the Interrotron setup - where you have two cameras, each feeding into the other's teleprompter display. Then you put an interviewer in front of one camera, the interviewee in front of the other, and you can capture a completely relaxed face-to-face interview while recording the subject staring directly down the lens. It's a very effective technique for documentaries.

[@MagicMaster667]

3:43 - I never noticed how surprisingly -brown- dark orange your eyes were until now.

[@faisal3398]

Haha good reference

[@danielhetrick3435]

orange _with context_

[@bradywilliams2951]

Excellent callback ;)

[@vitamins-and-iron]

marvellous mention

[@AlphaSynchrome]

Surprisingly, even those "low-effort" videos are quite enjoyable to watch, and if it helps you to put out more content, by all means, do more of those.

[@WolfiiDog13]

I can never get bored with his videos, it's always interesting and enjoyable

[@travcollier]

Agreed. There's a big difference between someone who knows what they are skimping on when they do "low effort", and someone who just doesn't know what they are doing. Self awareness goes a very long way ;) He needs a clever name for these: maybe Unconnected Technology Connections to riff on Shives's Not Actually Trek Actually videos.

[@wierdalien1]

@@travcollier and over explain the title everytime like shives

[@kabobawsome]

@Fuert Neigt Nah, you can definitely see how it's low-effort for him if you look closely (almost all the B-roll is just a few videos of his teleprompter setup; there's not much high-effort editing; it's just a camera pointed at the tablet when he shows his software, rather than a proper screen recording; etc), but low-effort does not mean a poor product, it just means it didn't take much effort to make it. Grilled Cheese Sandwiches are low-effort food, but they are still really good.

[@psivewri]

And here I've been memorizing paragraphs on the spot like a chump... Maybe it's time to get a teleprompter!

[@zsin128]

Yeah, I think It would be a good idea to get one.

[@spamspasm8183]

So...did you ever get one? It's been 6 months and I'm still curious.

[@psivewri]

@@spamspasm8183 Nope, still just talking off the top of my head when I'm in front of the camera :)

[@Karim-sj9wv]

@@psivewri been 3 months, any updates?

[@starcrashr]

Being familiar with how teleprompters work, I've always thought it would be cool to use the same concept to put a camera behind a chat window to create the illusion of eye contact with a live audience while reading their chat messages so they actually feel like the broadcaster is speaking to them when they respond.

[@ProjectPlugTTV]

You may have just given me a fantastic idea for my twitch channel, thankyou

[@Just.Kidding]

oh god, let's encourage parasocial relationships even more, shall we?

[@gazehound]

@@Just.Kidding grow up

[@grizzlixx]

@@Just.Kidding Yea this concept is just demonic

[@obeseperson]

@@Just.Kidding cry about it

[@daltongrowley5280]

"running out of technology to talk about" *looks around* "what to talk about, what to talk about" *looks at teleprompter* "Bingo!"

[@cleverca22]

maybe he will do another color next!

[@MuttFitness]

@@cleverca22 pink? Magenta versus purple? Why is there no dark yellow?

[@MattTrevett]

Running out. Lol. He can make a dozen videos about the lightbulb..

[@underwaterdick]

ColoUr?

[@MuttFitness]

@@underwaterdick depends on where you are from.

[@raytsh]

These videos are getting crazier and crazier, or rather, the host is (for instance the part at 4:00). I like it.

[@Django45]

Being a genius and being crazy are so close together one may mistake one for the other. :D

[@clorox1676]

For a second I thought I was watching a MacDoesIt video. Amazing.

[@Bella_Rei]

that shit killed me lol "The dancing eyes dance dancily!!"

[@Kihidokid]

I'm FUCKING losing it

[@Darknesslncarnate]

Yeah I think we are getting close to the realm of Technology Connections Out of Context parodies

[@BobbyDukeArts]

That is really cool. Definitely gave me some ideas. Also, I get to close to the camera all the time lol

[@zsin128]

Lol

[@Onset_Nonsense]

wewd

[@joshyoung1440]

You get to close to the camera?? Neat, what a privilege! I wish I could close to the camera too! But I have to open to the camera :( Lol I'm mixing close and close, but only to make a joke because you mixed too and to :P

[@paveladamek3502]

Reading text is one thing, but being able to "perform" as if you were improvising and putting the sentences together in your head, that is a whole new ballgame. You are a master of both. You really make it look like a professor standing in front of a packed auditorium and speaking from memory.

[@Ironclad17]

That's amazing, someone owns a windows tablet!

[@pd4165]

It's very, very, wrong. Hopefully a purchase from a thrift shop for a future video on failed platforms.

[@hexagonist23]

What? Windows tablets are great..

[@tl1882]

I have one lol

[@tl1882]

The start button broke when i upgraded to win10 tho

[@aidancommenting]

My brother has one of those! One day he updated Windows 10, now docking the keyboard switches it to portrait instead of landscape

[@Taylorphotostudio]

"The TelePrompTER" Dead. I am dead now.

[@DaviniaHill]

This is on KZbin.

[@sirisoj]

hi dad, i'm deb

[@philstephes]

@@sirisoj no, you're Carl!

[@muche6321]

A nice related easter egg - during the used software part, the file containing the script for this episode is called TelePrompTer.txt :-D.

[@dickJohnsonpeter]

I don't get it. I mean, besides not having a reason to capitalize the second 'T', I don't see the joke. What am I missing?

[@GammelSami]

8:40 I expected to see the Patron list scrolling on a Teleprompter. :(

[@insanejughead]

Ooooh, such a missed opportunity!

[@terry2295]

that would have worked really nicely with the video

[@ThomasFarquhar2]

Man that would've been epic

[@Liwet.]

Might have been too much effort.

[@rdormer]

I expected him to start saying "END END END END END" at the end.....

[@TheAbsorbant]

"I will be trying my hardest to bring a low-effort video to you." My logic circuits just melted.

[@PanAndScanBuddy]

Maximum Low Effort

[@TechnologyConnections]

In this video, you'll also get a behind-the-scenes look into how frequently I deviate slightly from the script. Which is quite frequently. Thanks to @DolphinArena on Twitter for suggesting I make this quick video!

[@LordZero666]

Are the silly jokes scripted as well ? I bet they require as much work as the research itself, hahaha.

[@TechnologyConnections]

@@LordZero666 In nearly every single case, yes. Though if I think of a good joke _while_ recording the talking head, it might get thrown in haphazardly

[@dkrock8567]

This video is amazing. Mad props

[@Delcolux]

Looks like you are using the marvelous WinBook TW801 tablet. Or perhaps not marvelous, but surprisingly decent and full-featured for the price. I have one as well.

[@comment2009]

Did you forget to pin this?

[@ozzymandius666]

I love how youtubers like yourself are actually providing technical information to help others successfully jump into the biz. Kudos to you!

[@danielrhouck]

7:24: “Fun fact: John Henry Pepper was not a seargent and did not have a band of any sort.” I don’t think he was a doctor either, although he did apparently go by “Professor Pepper” in some contexts.

[@Averna222]

When I was a kid I always thought those reflectors when someone was giving a speech were little bulletproof panels lol

[@ISawSomethingOnTheInternet]

Averna for thwarting the dumbest of sharpshooters. 🤣

[@Averna222]

@@ISawSomethingOnTheInternet Indeed, gotta protect from those center mass shots within that miniscule area. Nevermind that a shooter could just move over a bit.

[@maxis2k]

That's what I thought they were in the movie Star Trek VI. Probably because the president gets shot at in the scene.

[@tanya5322]

k and I thought they were some kind of fancy microphone 🤷🏼

[@cjc363636]

Same!

[@bokmcdok]

An American and an Englishman are having a conversation: American: "We should take the elevator." Englishman: "Talk proper English! I think you'll find it's called a lift." A: "No it's definitely an elevator." E: "Listen. We invented the English language. It's called a lift." A: "No, it's called an elevator. We invented the elevator."

[@Lensman864]

I am an Englishman and I approve this fact based amusement.

[@BradenBest]

That awkward moment when you realize English wasn't invented by anyone because it's a horrible amalgam of different languages that's been thrown together over the course of hundreds if not thousands of years.

[@jameswalker199]

E: didn't we invent the lift? I mean we invented everything else. A: Keep this up and I'll call the police E: we invented the police, too!

[@tparadox88]

As an American, I'm periodically tickled by remembering the line in My Fair Lady's "Why Can't The English Learn To Speak?" where he comments that "In America, they haven't spoken it for years".

[@EdwinvandenAkker]

That dialog is starting to escalate... *Let's call it an escalator!!!*

[@chrishahn3834]

3:15 Oh no, now there's two of them!

[@CallinWire]

Can't wait to see him talk about his clone-creating technology.

[@isaiahkern9434]

No... there is a third! The one taking the shot of the other two

[@PanduPoluan]

He mastered the use of glass panes to clone himself.

[@raygunsforronnie847]

@@PanduPoluan A number of optical effects with flat glass are possible. Probably the easiest to try at home is "Pepper's ghost". Disney uses it in their theme parks (the dancers in the banquet scene of the Haunted Mansion is one of them).

[@PanduPoluan]

@@raygunsforronnie847 I know. We're just joking around about how he appeared multiple times as multiple personas in the vid.

[@rashkavar]

I must admit, I admire the commitment to the bit with the backwards text rather than just reversing the audio in post. Did a reasonably convincing job of it, too!

[@newfelo]

You are reading?! WORDS?! OH THE HUMANITY!

[@doktormcnasty]

Not only that, but he ALSO apparently films without shoes on. So unprofessional!

[@andreasu.3546]

@@doktormcnasty Or pants,

[@Request_2_PANic]

Oh, not wearing pants is _TIGHT_

[@Ayy_Doll_Fiddler]

@@Request_2_PANic wowowow!

[@brixan...]

Even I don't do that! *Written by interpreter*

[@SulfurFurious]

You Sir are one of the most original and weird people on KZbin. Please never change being this way. Good day to you 😊

[@Dragonrage1oo1]

Thanks for the amazing captions by the way! I suppose it's not a super huge thing, but when a youtube video has actual, human-made captions and not the crappy automatic ones, it's SUUCH a difference. So thank you so much for going the extra mile, it's highly highly appreciated by people like me :)

[@x9x9x9x9x9]

The fact this channel is so small but has such good content from 1 person is insane to me. Or at least I assume its all done by one person. Also as time has gone on and he has found his groove and added some comedy its made these videos much more easy to watch. So much so I share these videos with my less technology inclined friends. Before when it was just education I didn't think my friends would enjoy them.

[@DeviantOllam]

I've always been fascinated by your teleprompter system, mostly when viewing your outtakes during the credits and seeing you reach for a keyboard occasionally. Looking forward to seeing the ins and outs of all of this! 👍

[@DeviantOllam]

OMG... never get "dancy-pants close" to the teleprompter again. That is... unsettling. ;-) (There's "close" and there's "TV close" and now I've learned there's "dancy-pants close")

[@DeviantOllam]

OMG you referenced Pepper's Ghost. If anyone here remembers an episode of Mr Wizard's World that features this illusion... ... CONGRATULATIONS! You're old!

[@xenonram]

_"ends_ and outs."

[@DeviantOllam]

@@xenonram yay for voice typing. (Or, according to autocorrect if I use my thumbs, "bone typing"... I can't win, heh)

[@catfish552]

Dev, do you just watch all the same technical KZbin channels I watch? You're everywhere lately!

[@MarceldeJong]

"no effort" uh huh. You're incapable of that, sir. Also autocue>elevators.

[@LmgWarThunder]

wtf does autoqueue even mean? Elevators Elevate people to higher levels of a building (and bring them back down) that's why they're called that

[@unpairedelectron2886]

@@LmgWarThunder Autocues automatically give the speaker the cues

[@johnrumm4786]

@@unpairedelectron2886 And replace cue cards....

[@MarceldeJong]

@@LmgWarThunder well people don't like to wait in line, so get an autoqueue. Works better than an elevator.

[@jubbetje4278]

Lost in the pond

[@markpeterson5479]

You reminded me about when I, as Floor Director, in a TV station ran one of these way back in the 1960s. However, it was all mechanical - two cranks so the tan-colored Teletype paper was kept tight. The letters were handwritten with a thick pen. It took a certain knack to keep the paper tight and also moving at the same speed as the one talking. The device was fastened to the camera below the lens. If I wasn't steady enough when cracking, the whole camera shook (and of course the viewers at home got a shaky picture).

[@showersmoker]

I love this channel. Makes me go “huh, neat” all the time.

[@senselessplace]

I really like that you are farther away from the camera. I appreciate it. Many people on KZbin film way too close, I don't want to see their nose hairs. Plus I like seeing your background display . I really found this interesting.

[@AlRoderick]

A lot of them are limited by the size of their room, plus to a certain extent the KZbin aesthetic is defined by webcams and cell phone selfies, which are generally about an arm's length away from the subject. Most interview subjects or news talking heads are shot through longer lenses, because it minimizes the wide angle distortion on their faces and also makes it easier to do depth of field effects and blur out the background.

[@niduroki]

The distance isn't actually the discerning factor, but the focus length. You can get super-far away and still see someone's noise-haris (super-telephoto) or be very close but see everything in the background (ultra-wide). Ultra-wide *does* have its own look though, "elongated" at the edges, pronouncing of features (fish-eye at the extreme), which longer focal lengths don't have. @Alexander: Regarding why tele-lenses are used for interviews: Quite the opposite actually; The focus plane gets gets bigger, as the focus is further, thus getting super-close (with an ultrawide e.g. so you still have everything you need in frame) makes it easily possible too get only eyes in focus, while everything else is background-blurred as hell, even at f/4 or so (ask macro-photographers … focus-stacking to the rescue). In TV productions bokeh isn't really that important, but portraying humans in a nice way (flatter faces - which tele-lenses do well, because compression) is more important.

[@Chris5685]

Niduroki Well explained, couldn’t said it bettery myself. 👍

[@lawrencedoliveiro9104]

With 4K, you might still see nose hairs from across the street.

[@renakunisaki]

@@lawrencedoliveiro9104 or you'll see sub-VHS quality because, even though it's 4K resolution, they've compressed it to death.

[@BuffaloWarrior7]

Dude, I can not express how much I love your videos. Your style, personality, everything. I try to show other people and they just don't get it.

[@stevesstuff1450]

There's something fundamentally wrong with them... :-( This is one of the funniest, and most informative channels on KZbin..... along with "Techmoan", and "VWestlife" - both masters of 'dry' humour, and also very informative. If you're wired properly, KZbin can be a great place!! :-D

[@aigledemasyaf]

"HUMOR GOOD." made me laugh, so GREAT SUCCESS!

[@k8zhd]

I remember being introduced to teleprompters (actually they probably were TelePrompTers) at my first job at a TV station in 1971. They were mounted above the lens of the huge color cameras (RCA TK-42). The newsreaders used them, and they were just rolls of paper (like a player piano roll) typed on a special typewriter that used a huge caps-only font. The rolls were mechanically scrolled with a reversable motor controlled, I think, by the program director. Later they used an independent black & white TV camera pointed at the scrolling paper, and fed the video to small monitors above the cameras, so they didn't have to type multiple copies of the script for each camera.

[@Steets]

The way the camera lost focus for a second at 4:08 really contributed to the mood of that scene. Slow descent into madness and all that.

[@camelopardalis84]

About five seconds before that I was afraid he might fall of his table. That he was actually sitting on it in a weird position* and would lose balance due to having raised his hands. Edit: It's called squatting. I thought he was squatting on the table.

[@NICK....]

When sad quietly whisper "what what coconut" to self to instantly remedy sadness

[@oxybrightdark8765]

Or Beep Boop, in the most manly voice you can muster

[@M33f3r]

​@@oxybrightdark8765 BEEP BOOP IN THE MOST MANLY VOICE YOU CAN MUSTER!

[@oxybrightdark8765]

M33f3r well, exactly

[@dash8brj]

I knew there had to be a reason your videos were so well presented. A basic bit of kit like the teleprompter can make a huge difference! :)

[@PanzerMan332]

I always thought those clear glass thingies in front of important people giving speeches were to bounce the sound back into the microphones. The real explanation makes a lot more sense.

[@mansman2167]

5:00 Hey, at least you thought they were teleprompters. I thought they were rinky dink shields for the speaker against sniper shots from very specific angles. I'm dumb.

[@cysioland]

Or sun reflectors. I found out what they were because of House of Cards. There they clearly showed that onto these sheets there are words being projected.

[@shrimpflea]

I used to think they were audio devices that helped with the sound.

[@fumedrummer]

Way back when, I used to think that those panes of glass surrounding politicians making speeches were some sort of bullet-proof shielding.

[@xenonram]

That's exactly what I thought when I was a kid. I thought that they are strategically placed to block the sightline between "hard to secure" buildings and the speaker. (Like if there's a 10 story building adjacent to the speaker.)

[@brianmiller1077]

I also wondered that because when I was a kid someone tried to shoot the president AND the Pope and that was about the same time I noticed them

[@erlendse]

Honestly, how would you know the mirror isn't bulletproof?

[@youmukonpaku3168]

@@erlendse shoot one? you'll find out, and either way you won't have to pay rent for a while.

[@MrEazyE357]

Me too!

[@KirkHMiller]

I can't imagine doing a live OlyTV show without teleprompters! I use Promptdog and 3 MagiCue teleprompters. In the control room, I have a few right-reading VGA monitors for the student crew to read along to in the control room. I love that you are pulling back the curtain!

[@Lennyp4]

your cut to the teleprompter at the beginning is just one of those perfect visual gags

[@MikeMayer]

Accessibility IS important! Thank you for always doing a great job on the closed captioning.

[@comradecat5057]

@@K1OIK closed captions

[@K1OIK]

@@comradecat5057 I wonder what he did with the time he saved not being clear and not typing losed aption?

[@comradecat5057]

@@K1OIK They most likely played Mario Kart at 200ccs lol

[@K1OIK]

@@comradecat5057 ccs?

[@strakhovandrri]

@@K1OIK KZbin literally uses CC to describe this thing, it's right to the left of "settings" button

[@thedeafwillowtobedeleted]

"Accessibility is important" (last line in the captions FYI for other viewers here). I agree! lol. That's actually one of the biggest thing holding me back from getting into producing more videos. I want to do ASL series (I'm Deaf myself) on various topics but I'm not looking forward to the tedium of making sure it's all accurate (or at least English accurate which is basically a second language for me...). ASL have quite a lot of local variants of signs and captions would help cover any differences. Plus it would allow non-signers to be able to understand what's being signed. Any tips or tricks on effective captioning process? KZbin seems to have somewhat the easiest way to set up captioning but it still seem like it could be a bit better. And any suggestions on how to get appropriate sounds on my video (like someone volunteering to voice for me or choosing the right background music instead of silence?)

[@RareAvengedSevenfold]

For the voice volunteering: Just use a good text to speech program instead of having someone to voice your videos. Even the most basic one is doing a fantastic job nowadays. You could set your videos up like those dubbed English documentaries we have in Europe: where you only slightly almost inaudible hear the original person talking, while the voice over talks prominently over the persons original speech. For the background sound you’d need to have it sorted in categories (after choosing from the free ones) like neutral1, neutral2, happy1, happy2. Depending on the topic of the video. Practically anyone random who likes music or video production could help you curate that. Volume adjustment also would’ve only to be curated once by someone and after that you could write down the used audio parameters and reuse them for every video onwards to ensure they are mixed right. Almost all video software has a visual representation of audio built in anyway. Can’t really help with captions, though I agree that KZbin still has a long way to go with them.

[@thedeafwillowtobedeleted]

How do I ensure the quality of the voice? I don't even know what settings to use due to not being able to hear it clearly. I mean, I've poked around in the settings on android phone and iphones just to see what options there are and usually there's like 10 different voices and each can be tweaked in various way. Plus the timing? ASL can be rather concise sometimes so I'm not sure how to adjust the voices to fit within some of the scene?

[@KuraIthys]

Oh god, now you're giving me flashbacks of doing youtube captions. I did that for two of my own videos, and in fact, one on this channel. Let's just say that it took several days - considering how long some of my video content took to make, the act of captioning them alone (granted I find it hard not to be something of a perfectionist about timing and what the captions say) could take longer than it took to make the video in the first place. It's worse with unscripted content, because then you can't just dump the script into the captions as a starting point. (which saves a lot of time) Of course, my actual goals were to caption my own content in at least 3 languages... Which, given that a single set of captions could already take longer to produce than the video itself... Doing that 3 times over is a nightmare. It took me a good 5 or 6 days to adequately translate and caption a single technology connections video, incidentally. And that's with there already being an auto-translated version to use as a starting point. And while I certainly wasn't working on it 24/7, I must've been doing it 3-4 hours a day during that period... So, yeah... I don't know if there's an easier way, or if I'm being hampered by my desire to get the timing just right... But it's a pretty demanding task, it turns out.

[@ethan4896]

Jeffery Stroud Just wanted to give a shoutout to the fact that we need ASL-signing content creators, if ever start making content, you’ve got one subscriber here!

[@M33f3r]

@@thedeafwillowtobedeleted Have someone you trust who can hear help would be best. Otherwise you can always do a few options and poll the audience. It would be so cool to have someone doing ASL with even a sort of sub-par text to speech thing going on. Get in touch with someone in your area that is in deaf education, or some other related thing, that knows sign language well.

[@BobMuir100]

Thank you so much for that both interesting and honest. ALL presenters should get the kit it makes their work so much better!

[@ViviFuchs]

I love the little bloopers he leaves at the end of his videos. He seems like such an adorable, genuine, and nice guy. I always get a little chuckle out of them.

[@extrahourinthepit]

I’d like you to know, as a non-native who sometimes fails to catch exact words, that I love and appreciate the effort you put into the captions, even though your diction is so crystal-clear yours are the videos I need help with the least!

[@lexcraftsandstuff1677]

I love this man

[@EssenceofPureFlavor]

YES

[@camelopardalis84]

Here's the comment I left on this video about an hour ago: Marie Lastname 1 hour ago (edited) Since discovering your channel I've been wondering if you're just a mild-mannered super nerd or if you're a mild-mannered super nerd who is also crazy. I think I got my answer today. And in case this sounds like an insult: I would still love to have a child one day who turns out like you. (I'm not actually thinking that I will ever have a child. I just have this elaborate fantasy of adopting one and for years it's always been a girl but males like you make me want to reconsider that.) Edit: Stupid typo and stupid beginner's English learner mistake. Why would I make a mistake like that? I've been learning English since 1997 and have pretty much kept at it ever since.

[@WebWingRecords]

This had to be my favorite video you've done yet! I'm really enjoying the evolving sense of humor (or at least how your use of humor is evolving). I haven't laughed this much in ages. Don't get me wrong, your videos are still interesting and informative but being humorous about it helps. :D

[@Abigael317]

Accessibility is SOO important! Thank you for the great (and humourous!) subtitles, especially since subtitle use is becoming super common!

[@bogfinken]

2:28 "sdrawkcab era taht sdrow" 😂😂😂

[@hoej]

Smarter Every Day did an entire video on talking backwards, in Destin's usual down-to-earth-but-over-the-top kinda way.

[@rancidmarshmallow4468]

dumb suggestion: instead of a keyboard you have to reach for after a blooper, use a pedal like on a sewing machine that you can just tap with your foot.

[@pd4165]

There are Bluetooth ones for sight reading musicians - usually known as page turners.

[@5hort3]

Your efforts to reduce your level of effort do not go unnoticed and unappreciated. Thank you.

[@caymanhilldesigns453]

I clicked on this thinking I already knew how a teleprompter worked... I was wrong. Love your videos.

[@Okurka.]

3:36 You don't smack a carriage return with your right hand. SMH

[@TechnologyConnections]

Ahh! You're right! Been a while since I brought out my Smith Corona Galaxie

[@dominateeye]

You do if you've got a right-to-left typewriter! (Surely those exist, right?)

[@Okurka.]

@@TechnologyConnections I've seen lots of people get it wrong; probably because the return key on a computer keyboard is on the right. QI got it wrong as well: kzbin.info/www/bejne/fpqslWtoj71gsMk

[@HistoricaHungarica]

DominateEye Well... I know one that requires you to push it UPWARDS after each line... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hansen_Writing_Ball

[@dougbrowning82]

@@dominateeye Many Eastern languages are written right-to-left, so they must have right-to-left typewriters.

[@marzuqahmed218]

0:32 This really has no-effort. He doesn't even fix his taskbar.

[@im.empimp]

@Technology Connections Thank you so much for taking the time to make accurate CLOSED CAPTIONS!

[@AdamZovits]

Thank you for doing the captions reliably and correctly, it makes a huge difference in the accessibility.

[@MrMonkeyCrumpets]

I hope we one day get to hear the complete tale of Gregory Floppinstock

[@hahasamian8010]

I'm glad he continued it

[@PositionLight]

I think we just saw somebody's first transformation story 😏

[@DahVoozel]

3:14 I see someone is giving us that classic Aging Wheels multi host shot.

[@flashfilibuster5382]

Aging wheels and Technology connections got similar vibes but are also pretty different

[@KrisRatliff75]

If this was a "less effort" video, then it is great. The major thing I like about your videos is your delivery. Yes, the information presented is fantastic, but your delivery makes it. So, as long as you keep being you, keep lowering the effort until we squeak (or until you do). Thank again!! Great information.

[@ovadiadan]

Love the low effort. You are both an artist and a dork in perfect quantities. Keep it up!

[@D-Ogi]

Thanks for the captions. Just as a side note, they help also people learning English.

[@DEMENTO01]

same

[@adm0iii]

No, it helps people learning American.

[@cgalvin717]

Ok, but I wanna know more about this Gregory Floppinstock character, he sounds interesting....

[@M33f3r]

Reminds me of the Intro text story in Monty Python and the Holy Grail. kzbin.info/www/bejne/mpuugamOedyLmdU

[@ninaaniston1717]

You just lifted my spirit a little with your humorous remark pertaining the autocue.

[@JimTheZombieHunter]

Thanks for the tips! I had been considering rolling my own with a small mono video monitor standing on it's back (with the horizontal deflection connections to the yoke reversed) and using an old VIC-20 to generate the text, lol.

[@anthonyspecf]

"You stay classy San Diego, I'm Ron Burgandy????" "D***it! Who put a question mark on the teleprompter? For the last time, whatever you put on that teleprompter, Burgandy WILL READ!"

[@aaron74]

Ha ha ha! Classic

[@750tiprogamer]

might be my favorite movie

[@eddiehimself]

"Go fuck yourself, San Diego!"

[@transportevolved]

Best Video EVAR. Love it. People often don't understand how this all works. We live for our Teleprompters. :)

[@Sylvicolus]

This reminds me of when I used a teleprompter during a live education broadcast for schools. We had two sessions. The morning session went fine. But during the second live session the crew started breaking down the various set locations we were done with as we moved from one set to the next. Well someone unplugged the teleprompter cable so we had to do the second session from memory.

[@Turnbull50]

I think your videos are brilliant and you have a great sense of humour, I love that you show your mistakes at the end.

[@BRUXXUS]

A few years ago.... and by a few I mean like 12 (!!!) I worked for a pro AV company and we had a gig doing the AV production for *huge* corporate event. I wasn't really involved, but I was part of the rental/production department, so I got to go on-site and check out some of the setup and testing at the convention center where it was being held. One thing that stood out to me was the teleprompter setup. They had someone controlling the speed manually, live, while the presenter was on stage. Like... that was her only job... turning a little knob to make sure the right word was in the right place for the presenter. I thought it was fascinating! I got to see a lot of other super cool, and expensive stuff. Like 8 projectors that cost more than my house, EACH, setup for edge blending across an entire arena. Got to listen in on the radio for all the cues being called out. Seeing a gigantic lighting and sound desk. Oh man... it was awesome!

[@kruks]

That's pretty common in live setups, because of the variability of applause length in particular.

[@dan_loup]

I imagine this is THE person you never want to have a grudge with if you're a presenter.

[@morrisonAV]

I run a teleprompter for a buddy of mine who shoots local TV ads for a car dealership. I use a jog/shuttle wheel to scroll the script down the screen. I was SO hoping to see if he would show what he was reaching down to control his scrolling.

[@BRUXXUS]

@@dan_loup Oh my, can you imagine the havoc and panic they could induce for a presenter they don't like? haha!

[@dan_loup]

@@BRUXXUS They would have to be sneaky to not get fired, but i imagine you can do several "oopsies" without getting caught

[@davebeedon3424]

You introduced me to beam-splitting glass. Thanks for the education.

[@stan.rarick8556]

Or a two-way mirror (may be the same thing)

[@camille4574]

Alex, I just wanted to say that while I'm not hard of hearing, I love your captions in situations where I otherwise have to mute the sound. They're hilarious and reliable, I always know that I can go to one of your videos if I need something with captions!

[@kabobawsome]

Your videos are so well organized and put together, yet you radiate such chaotic energy

[@lawrencedoliveiro9104]

7:03 What’s really bad is that the second r in “Corporation” is not capitalized as well. “TelePrompTer CorpoRation” ... now isn’t that better?

[@adm0iii]

Always get your daily ration of Corpo. Mmm mm!

[@andrewgwilliam4831]

Clearly that should be "CorpOration".

[@richardkeswick2440]

@@andrewgwilliam4831 “CorPoraTion” I think

[@guiorgy]

"noitaroproC reTpmorPeleT" ekil erom

[@vitamins-and-iron]

@@guiorgyclever

[@LePedant]

Awww look how young he was with his home made lift.

[@kellywu4061]

Kristi Marie trans rights

[@pinkertonbyweezer]

nice pfp

[@pinkertonbyweezer]

@@kellywu4061 double nice pfp

[@D600Active]

Trans rights

[@TheSkypetube]

50% yourself

[@anonymous5401]

KZbin: " wann learn about teleprompters?" Me: "not really but i guess im game"

[@SreenikethanI]

yeah even i guess im game

[@MoonFairy929]

Love when youtube puts a new face in front of me! You’re adorable and do great work!

[@TylerP223]

"Subtle movements of my eyeeeeeees." Hmm, sounds like he had a large vowel movement just then.

[@Blue-Maned_Hawk]

I hate everything about you.

[@Fuzy2K]

At least he didn't have consonantpation

[@hkhjg1734]

dont feel bad. until watching this vid i thought the glass was for protection from snipers lol

[@ratamacue0320]

Only from very particular angles.

[@JoshWebb]

Same. I think a friend told me that was what they were, and I just assumed he was right. I figured they covered angles that had line of sight from outside the security premier. It did seem a little odd that every venue seemed to have the same protected line of sight issues....

[@mrcryptozoic817]

Thanks! I have no need for it but I tremendously enjoyed learning about the mysterious teleprompter.

[@VarunGupta3009]

Thank you for making these videos accessible to people like me, who can't recognise audible words coming out of another person's mouth, even though perfectly capable of perceiving sound.

[@MarcoGPUtuber]

Technology Connections is also clever, simple and pretty neat! He even reads words!

[@b33thr33kay]

Thanks you so much for adding subtitles

[@ChadWSmith]

I don't really have anything clever to say, nor do I want to simply quote a line from the video. But I do want to leave a comment because I know that helps the algorithm know your audience is engaged. So, here you go, sir. Thank you for your videos!

[@Mrbobinge]

Always wondered but too lazy to Google it. So glad to have clicked on this. Light-hearted informative sincere. Nice job. Thanks.

[@williamwaffle1629]

Absolutely loved this Star Trek episode. The way Captain Picard dealt with the Rommulans is truly incredible; I couldn't have thought up a narrative like that in a million years. And Jordi LaForge - what an incredible character. Thank you for sharing this episode with me.

[@Teejrocks83]

"DING"... And I can never read in peace again...

[@andrewcocos]

I just want to say THANK YOU for the captions. Always read'em!

[@wecontrolthevideo]

Before the electronically generated prompters, they started out as typed copy with a video camera shooting the script. The copy spanned multiple pages and the sheets of paper were taped together end to end, to make one long script. In TV news the script was generally typed on the right half of the sheet, with various instructions and timing cues in the left half. The camera was suspended a foot or so above a conveyor device, that was several feet long. The script laid on the conveyer and was slowly moved up, by a motor that was controlled by a handheld device. P.S. love the BASF L-750 video cassette shirt. I used to own Beta tapes made by just about every manufacturer that made them.

[@thatmcgamer3106]

Break the illusion? I love behind the scenes. It makes the magic or setup even better. I love it.

[@RethinkRetro1]

"SEE MY EYES WATCH THEM DANCE!"

[@buddyclem7328]

D A N C E !

[@icebluscorpion]

@Technology Connections your vid content is really good and the outtakes in the end makes you more sympathic, it makes you human and I like it... I liked it too... As all of your vid 🙂 keep it up pal! 😊

[@mintjuulpod333]

Thank you for doing the captions. I can hear, but they're still really nice to have for everyone.