Suborbital Blog

We just added a new guide to the Power Prompter documentation: How to use your iPad as a wireless display for Power Prompter.

You can find the guide here: https://suborbital.io/powerprompter/docs/ipad-sidecar/

Recently we released the 2020.3 update and just two days later the 2020.4 update.

The 2020.3 update brought support for the Touchbar on recent MacBook Pro models, added a new overlay named “Expanse” and fixed a bug where text flip would reset whenever prompting was started from the editor window.

The 2020.4 update then fixed a bug that was introduced with the Touchbar support.

Initially we planned to add a speed slider to the touch bar. Which then turned out to cause performance issues. Sadly updating the touch bar seems to slow down teleprompter rendering. So whenever the speed slider was updated to a new value the teleprompter would slow down.

That’s why we removed the speed slider for now. We plan to bring it back once we figure out how to work around the performance regression.

The full release notes can be found here: https://suborbital.io/powerprompter/release_notes/

Power Prompter is a modern teleprompter application for the Mac. Specially designed for small teams and solo content creators.

The new Power Prompter update is here. It’s a minor update which brings the following changes:

• The teleprompter window features now a scroll speed label above the speed slider. By default it displays the speed as percent. But you can switch through different units (word/second, words/minute, lines/second, lines/minute) by clicking on the label.
• Spawning new teleprompter windows by pressing CMD-T while a teleprompter window has keyboard focus works again.
• Fixed a bug that would randomly bring teleprompter windows into the foreground whenever playback was initiated. (This happened only when more than one prompter window was active).
• Fixed a bug that would display ugly scroll bars in the display list when a mouse was connected to the system.

The update is available now from the Mac App Store or from the update feature of the direct download version of Power Prompter (Menu: Power Prompter -> Check for updates…).

You can find the complete release notes by following this link: https://suborbital.io/powerprompter/release_notes/

Power Prompter is a modern teleprompter application for the Mac. Specially designed for small teams and solo content creators.

The first update in 2020 to Power Prompter – aptly named 2020.1 – comes with a much requested feature: Bookmarks.

Now you can drop bookmarks within your scripts and quickly jump to them. Power Prompter automatically creates keyboard shortcuts for each bookmark (CMD + [NUMBER]) so you can always quickly access your bookmarked locations.

Refer to our online help “Bookmarks” section for a more in-depth guide or just go and explore the new “Bookmarks” menu in the app. It’s not that complicated to get up and running – but it’s a huge boost to productivity.

We also adjusted the Touchpad sensitivity a little when it comes to performing scroll speed changes. Now you have finer control over scroll speed when using your Macbook’s built-in Touchpad. If you’d like to have back the old sensitivity you can always adjust this setting in the “General” preferences under “Scroll Wheel Sensitivity”.

Another change that’s new in this version is that the editor won’t be scrolling automatically when you engage teleprompting mode. This change has been made necessary to by macOS Catalina’s new Text View which is more CPU hungry than previous iterations and could cause stuttering on even the newest and most powerful Macs. We hope Apple will fix the issue – but until then editor autoscrolling is disabled by default. But can be re-enabled via the “View -> Scroll editor during teleprompting” menu item.

The update is available now via either the app’s auto-update feature or via the Mac App Store. The complete changelog can be found here.

Power Prompter is a modern teleprompter application for the Mac. Specially designed for small teams and solo content creators.