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ImaginarySense / Imaginary-Teleprompter

Easy to use, free software, teleprompter app.
http://imaginary.tech/teleprompter
GNU General Public License v3.0
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Text starting at Focus area #40

Closed ericlentz closed 2 years ago

ericlentz commented 4 years ago

Looking good! A great addition though would be to start the text at the focus area rather than having to wait for it to get there. If I have the focus area on the top, I have to wait for that text to get there or queue it to be there before I start my presentation.

With that, it would also mean that the timer would start at zero rather than however many seconds I have to wait for it to get to the focus area.

I LOVE that it is on Linux! Yay Electron!

Cuperino commented 4 years ago

start the text at the focus area rather than having to wait for it to get there.

Good suggestion! Hope we can add it to 3.0 or 3.1.

It would also mean that the timer would start at zero rather than however many seconds

You can also click and drag or let it scroll to the desired location, and then un-pause it using the Backspace key instead of Spacebar. Pressing Backspace resets the timer and toggles playback only when paused.

I LOVE that it is on Linux! Yay Electron!

Ironically if it wasn't for Electron, Imaginary Teleprompter would've been rewritten in QT, and Windows releases would run behind from Linux's. I still think of rewriting the app in QT sometimes. But the accessibility of HTML and JavaScript for non-programmers, and the advantage of being able to integrate powerful rich text editors like CKEditor made us stick to its web roots.

ericlentz commented 4 years ago

I didn't know about the dragging ability. Good stuff! That advice actually takes care of my issues, but the enhancement would still be nice.

Cuperino commented 2 years ago

Dear @ericlentz,

A few months after our conversation, I started working on a new teleprompter app, written from scratch to bypass all of Imaginary Teleprompter's technical limitations. The new app is called QPrompt and I recently released version 1.0 of it. qprompt.app

With regards to the future of Imaginary Teleprompter, I'm expecting a beta update soon, with some new features. but these won't be on par with QPrompt's, as some of QPrompt's features are impossible to implement here. Imaginary Teleprompter will receive one final mayor release to incorporate community contributions, and bring support for new systems, such as native Wayland support on Linux and arm64 support on M1 Macs. The main goal with this release is to ease user transition from Imaginary Teleprompter over to QPrompt.

QPrompt is open source teleprompter software for all video creators. Built with ease of use, fast performance, control accuracy, and cross-platform support in mind. QPrompt works with studio teleprompters and tablet teleprompters, cellphones, and webcams. It is also designed to be used in video conferences.

QPrompt is a native application, written in C++ using the Qt and KDE's Kirigami frameworks, meaning it runs on all mayor systems, and it performs significantly better than Imaginary Teleprompter.

Packages are currently available for:

The Android version is not yet ready for production use. Linux Flatpak support is on its way, and should arrive sometime soon. QPrompt has been tested to work perfectly on the PinePhone Pro but no packages for its distros are available at the time.

With regards to the feature requested on this thread...

This feature has been implemented and will be making it into the next version of Imaginary Teleprompter. You also get something similar to this feature on QPrompt, where the editor itself is the teleprompter, and there is no way for the text to scroll outside the bounds of the focus area

Please report any issues or requests that you have for QPrompt, by going to feedback.qprompt.app to make this transition easier for all users. Hope that you enjoy using QPrompt and that it makes your production easier.

Best regards, Cuperino