Yes, check on instructables.com - I'm pretty sure that is where I saw one.
Basically, there seem to be two DIY methods that use mirrors and laptops. I'm unsure as to the solution for timed scrolling, but I believe that most of the DIY methods include a manual scroll - someone's gotta do something... perhaps that's how it is in studios?
I know I have seen several boxen that people have done with lots of instructions online.
It is helpful in that it gives me ideas of things I could do with resources I already own.
Specifically, I could use my Final Cut to make a Quicktime that's just text scrolling upwards, maybe with a little colored overlay strip like that screenshot showed. I learned since posting that most teleprompters scroll automatically, anyway.
There are devices that can be used to page through Powerpoint slides remotely. I saw them in action at the event I was at recently so that speakers could control the paging through the slides being projected while wandering around the room. Unfortunately (as far as being useful to you now; fortunately for me at the time) I had little to do with the AV stuff so I don't know exactly what this was--probably some version of a wireless mouse, but it was very svelt and easy to hold in one's hand and punch buttons on with one's thumb(it was very simple--only a few actual things to "punch" as far as I could tell).
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Basically, there seem to be two DIY methods that use mirrors and laptops. I'm unsure as to the solution for timed scrolling, but I believe that most of the DIY methods include a manual scroll - someone's gotta do something... perhaps that's how it is in studios?
I know I have seen several boxen that people have done with lots of instructions online.
Oh, here's one of them:
http://www.instructables.com/id/EYS7FYANN0EV2Z3QGO/
Here's another:
http://www.wallstreetfreethinker.com/otherstuff/PlastiPrompter/plastiprompter.htm
I assume you've already seen those from googling...
Hope this is helpful and not just pointing at generic stuff.
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Specifically, I could use my Final Cut to make a Quicktime that's just text scrolling upwards, maybe with a little colored overlay strip like that screenshot showed. I learned since posting that most teleprompters scroll automatically, anyway.
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Oh, the jokes I could tell were I truly motivated.
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