Teleprompter / How it works
How it works
Bring in the script you have, set it up to read from where you stand, and press play. Run it from your wrist or a pedal, record under the lens on iPhone and iPad, then hand captions and markers to the edit.
STEP 1 · BRING IN YOUR SCRIPT
Start with the file you already have.
Import Word, PDF, plain text, RTF, Final Draft, Fountain or a PowerPoint's speaker notes, or write in the editor with bold, italic, color and alignment. Keep scripts in folders and search them.
Scripts, folders and rundowns sync through your own private iCloud. Cutvey does not hold it. What each format brings in.
STEP 2 · SET UP THE READ
Make it readable from where you stand.
Pick continuous, paging or timed scrolling. Choose the face (OpenDyslexic included, or any font on the device), the size, margins, spacing, colors and a reading line that suits you. Mirror it for a beam-splitter rig.
Hebrew, Arabic and Farsi scripts read right to left. Mirroring and the clean feed.
STEP 3 · READ IT
Press play. It keeps pace.
Turn on voice follow and the scroll trims its speed to your read, using Apple's speech recognition on the device. Jump between cues, give a cue its own speed, run a countdown first, and stop to fix a word at reading size without losing your place.
The clocks read EST. ELAPSED, EST. LEFT and DRIFT: estimates from the scroll and the words left. If voice follow lags.
STEP 4 · RUN THE SHOW
A whole program in one list.
Put scripts in a rundown, with a note on each item. Step to the next or the previous script, or let it move to the next one on its own when a script ends.
STEP 5 · DRIVE IT FROM ANYWHERE
Run it from your Watch, a pedal, a phone or a laptop.
The Apple Watch starts, stops, sets the speed and jumps cues. Another iPhone, iPad or Mac joins as a remote, a monitor or an editor, up to eight devices at once. A browser on the same network becomes a remote with a four-digit code. Keyboards, pedals and presentation clickers work, and you choose the keys.
Game controllers work on a fixed map. Pair a second device.
STEP 6 · RECORD UNDER THE LENS
On iPhone and iPad.
The script sits in a two to four line strip beside the camera while you record in 1080p or 4K at exactly 24, 25 or 30 frames a second. The mic chip names your microphone and warns you if it drops. Takes go to your Photos.
STEP 7 · READ ON A CALL
On the Mac.
Call mode shrinks the prompter to a strip under the Mac's camera and can hide itself from screen sharing; test it on a call first. Keep the window on top and see-through, send a clean feed to a second display, and drive it with a Contour ShuttlePro jog wheel.
STEP 8 · HAND IT TO THE EDIT
Captions and markers.
Export an .srt caption file timed from the read, and every cue you reached as markers: CSV for Premiere Pro or an EDL for DaVinci Resolve. When you recorded a take, the captions line up with its first frame.
Captions use the script's words, timed from the scroll. Caption and marker settings.
What stays where
Your script stays yours.
- Scripts sync through your own private iCloud. Cutvey does not hold it.
- Voice follow runs on the device and records nothing.
- Sessions run on your own network and never pass through a Cutvey server. Pair only devices you trust, on a network you trust.
- Takes go to your Photos, and the app can only add to it.
- Crash and usage reports are your choice on the first screen. They carry no account identifier, never your scripts, recordings or voice, and your data is never sold.
What it runs on
| Device | Needs | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| iPhone and iPad | iOS or iPadOS 17 | Everything, including recording with the camera and a clean feed to an external display. |
| Mac | macOS 14 | A native Mac app with call mode and the jog wheel. No camera recording. |
| Apple Watch | watchOS 10 | A remote for the iPhone app. It needs the iPhone. |
| Any browser | Same network | A remote only. It never shows the script. |