Forget lines or shift your gaze when recording? Learn teleprompter scroll speed, mirror flip and the floating PiP window, plus on-camera habits and banned-word avoidance.
Why talking-head videos are hard
The challenge isn't the content — it's thinking and watching the camera at once. Memorizing fails under nerves; reading a script makes your eyes wander. A teleprompter solves this by scrolling your script near the lens so you read naturally while appearing to look straight ahead.
Key settings
- Scroll speed: start slow, match your natural reading pace, then fine-tune; slow down for long sentences and numbers.
- Font & line height: on phones keep it large and airy to reduce eye movement.
- Mirror flip: with a beam-splitter prompter the image reverses — enable horizontal mirroring; not needed on a plain phone.
- Floating window: overlay text in a picture-in-picture corner while watching the camera.
Pair with screen recording
For lessons and demos, capture screen + camera with Screen Recorder while the teleprompter keeps you fluent. Afterward trim, change speed and export GIF locally — no uploads.
Three on-camera habits
- Keep the text close to the lens to minimize gaze shift;
- Pause 0.5s between sentences for easier editing;
- Rewrite the script conversationally — formal prose sounds stiff.
Don't forget banned words
Superlatives like "best", "No.1", "forever" can throttle reach or violate rules. 365Lab Teleprompter flags 250+ common banned words as you type. For thumbnails, use Cover Maker to export every platform size.
