{"id":367,"date":"2019-08-19T09:33:06","date_gmt":"2019-08-19T07:33:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/suborbital.io\/blog\/?p=367"},"modified":"2019-08-19T09:37:28","modified_gmt":"2019-08-19T07:37:28","slug":"using-the-elgato-stream-deck-with-power-prompter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/suborbital.io\/blog\/using-the-elgato-stream-deck-with-power-prompter\/","title":{"rendered":"Using the Elgato Stream Deck with Power Prompter"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Stream Deck from Elgato is becoming more and more popular with video producers. Even if you&#8217;re not a streamer the Stream Deck still is a handy tool to have. (One of our programmers uses it to control Xcode &#8230; so yeah &#8211; the use cases are many).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You can of course use the Stream Deck to control Power Prompter. The setup is very straight forward and we&#8217;re going to guide you through it in this blog post.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Configuring the Stream Deck app<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>The first step is to open the Stream Deck control software and to create a new Power Prompter profile. You can make it so that your Stream Deck automatically switches to the Power Prompter profile when you activate Power Prompter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So first create a new profile and make it so that it auto-activates when Power Prompter starts. The Stream Deck app will ask you for the location of Power Prompter &#8211; simply point to Power Prompter in your Applications folder.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Then switch to the profile and create a bunch of &#8220;Hotkey&#8221; actions. You can find those actions in the System group. Name the actions and assign keyboard shortcuts to them. User CTRL+1 through CTRL+6. You can refer to the screenshot below for an idea how to set up your Stream Deck.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1904\" height=\"1828\" src=\"https:\/\/suborbital.io\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Screen-Shot-2019-07-31-at-15.16.03.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-368\"\/><figcaption>Editing the Power Prompter profile in the Stream Deck app<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Configuring Power Prompter<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Once you&#8217;re done configuring the Stream Deck software switch to Power Prompter and open the preferences (via the Power Prompter -&gt; Preferences&#8230; menu item). There switch to the &#8220;Shortcuts&#8221; tab and assign CTRL+1 through CTRL+6 to actions. Once again follow the screenshot below for some inspiration:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1584\" height=\"1358\" src=\"https:\/\/suborbital.io\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Screen-Shot-2019-07-31-at-15.16.12.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-369\"\/><figcaption>Setting up matching key shortcuts in Power Prompter. (You should set &#8220;Perform action on&#8221; to Key Down for best results).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Done!<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>You can now control Power Prompter with your Stream Deck. If you&#8217;re unhappy with our example mapping provided in this blog post you can always adjust it &#8211; as you see it&#8217;s very easy!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Just a tip: Use CTRL+[NUM] when you can. Those key combinations are unused by pretty much anything on macOS so they should always work with Power Prompter and any controller.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><em><a href=\"\/powerprompter\/\">Power Prompter<\/a> is a modern teleprompter application for the Mac. Specially designed for small teams and solo content creators.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Stream Deck from Elgato is becoming more and more popular with video producers. Even if you&#8217;re not a streamer the Stream Deck still is a handy tool to have. (One of our programmers uses it to control Xcode &#8230; so yeah &#8211; the use cases are many). 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