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In this unbox and setup the Elgato Prompter and Stream Deck Pedal.
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So I recently started using this online teleprompter and although it works pretty well
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I have trouble looking at the teleprompter and at the camera at the same time, which is why I got some upgrades. I end up getting this teleprompter by Elgato
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which is simply known as Prompter. And I also got the Stream Deck pedal just to control this
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prompter with my foot. So in this video, I want to do a quick unboxing and setup and give my first
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impression of these. All right, so first up is going to be the prompter itself
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and up top there's going to be this little box the prompter and then what looks to be a base
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and yeah that's everything in the box all right so first up this little box let's see what's in it
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we have some instruction guides so a quick user manual and then three little boxes inside this other box and one of them is going to have the usb cable
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and here's what it looks like so it's going to be usb a to usb c and this thing is going to be
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pretty long. It's also going to be braided, which is nice. And I do like the fact that the USB-C
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is going to be angled. On top of that, we also do have like this little booklet inside that same
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box too. And this other box, we're going to have some backplates. And one of these backplates is
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going to be for a DSLR and mirrorless camera. And this other one is just going to be a universal
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shroud backplate. On top of that, there also is going to be this microfiber cleaning cloth
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with the logo El Gato. And this last box is going to have step-up rings
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So there's going to be a bunch of these, nine total with one hidden in the back
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All right, now for the prompter itself. So there it is. And this thing's actually lighter than I thought
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We got the nine inch display at the bottom here and right here where we're going to see the words
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and on the backside, that's where the camera goes through. And yeah, you can see
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yeah, you can literally see the reflection through here. So you could see my camera right in the front
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and on the back side there's going to be these two screws and of course at the bottom we are
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going to have some mounting screws this is going to be for a tripod so we can put it either in here
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in the center or more towards the back and finally there's going to be this other bracket which I have
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to figure out how to use. All right now it's time to set up the prompter itself and I'm going to
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start by screwing this onto a tripod. So there's going to be two mounting holes one up front and
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one in the back and the back feels like it's gonna distribute the weight a little bit better
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So I'm gonna attach it to this one instead. Just like that. And now it's time to work on the backside
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So it does come with these two screws It already comes with this plate attached and this is gonna be for the Facecam Pro I don have a Facecam Pro I gonna be using my camera so I can remove this back plate
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and then replace it with another one. So because I'm using this type of camera, I can't use the back plate for the DSLR mirrorless camera
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it comes with, so I'm gonna be using the other one, which is gonna be the universal shroud plate
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And this, this can go right inside like this. and now it's time for the L brackets so first off I just want to attach this to the back here
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and then remove this sticker that says mount camera here and I'll just thread in my camera
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from the bottom and of course make sure everything is tight and then bring it as close as possible
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without hitting the mirror and because this camera does zoom in I got to make sure to not go
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all the way in although I think that's fine yeah even if I go all the way in it's not going to zoom
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in too much that it's going to interrupt the glass but once the right angle is set
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this can be tightened even more. We've got to remove the lens cover
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and there so now this is what I see nice and clear and there that's the first part setup
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now let me get this hooked up onto the computer. All right so now it's time to download the actual
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software for the prompter so just checking in over here it told me to go to elgato.com slash
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downloads and then scrolling down here we want to download this camera hub which i just did and
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then i could launch this continue continue agree install and just give it a few minutes all right
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so there it is so here's what the hub looks like all right so i brought up the prompter so you can
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see what's going on with it so when i mess with the settings there you can see size increases size
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decreases. I can mess with the margins, the vertical margins. Let's see the line spacing
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opacity, text color. Oh yeah, no, I think white, definitely easier to see
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And then background color too. Oh wow, yeah, that's very bright. Let me go back to black
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So we can also mess with the scrolling. So right here I'm seeing constant voice sync
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Yeah, so this takes me to another page on how to actually use this, but let me go back to here
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I go to constant the scrolling speed on a loop reading position I could change where it starts if I want it all the way on top somewhere in the middle at the bottom overlays so let see
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I can add a cross, a snap, square, then change the color of that too
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opacity, position, and a cool thing too I'm seeing now is that I can actually separate the script
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into these different sections to these different chapters. And then when you see it on the prompter
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itself, you can see how it's more organized, a little bit more detailed, versus just a bunch
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of clumped up words together. And then right now I'm just pressing it. So it just goes
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to these different chapters, these different sections. And the cool thing about this prompter
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is the fact that you can use it just as a second screen. So right over here for content, we can put
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it for chat so if you're connected to twitch and you want to see your live chat it'll go ahead and
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display here now i don't use twitch i don't stream so this isn't really useful to me but what will
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be useful to me is going to be this second display yeah i see my mouse right over here so i can open
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up something else such as this image of a cat so this is pretty cool and all but what i'm really
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excited about is using the stream deck with the prompter all right so now time for the stream deck
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pedal. Yeah, this thing has some pretty good weight to it. And there it is. So it's going to be metal
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on the back. It's got these, I think they're rubber. They may be rubber feet. Yeah. And then the buttons
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So there's three different buttons and this one's going to be the biggest in the middle. We got the
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logo there. And then there's also some other stuff that comes in here. It's going to be the user manual
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and a power cable and this is going to be USB-A to USB-C and it looks like I can actually take
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this off. Oh actually no, it kind of looks like it because there's this little divot in there
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but you actually can take it off and this is going to be a nice braided cable. We also have
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a smaller manual and there's also going to be a bunch of these little baggies which is going to
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be some spring sets so I guess this is for the tension and also the middle pedal stopper. All
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So now it's time to install the software for the stream deck. So we're going to be using the same website as before, elgato.com slash downloads
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Head over down and then download the stream deck, which I already did
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And then let me just install this
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Alright so there it is so now this can be connected on the backside and then make sure
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it's connected to the computer. And then you can see it's blue so it's turning on
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Alright so I was watching a quick video of what to do next from here just because I wasn't
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seeing options for the camera. So what we got to do is click on this button here
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And then it'll take me to this page and here I can write camera hub
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And then just get this. Because I got to create an account
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Alright, so everything's downloaded. Now I have all these different options for camera hub
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And one of the main one was set to go was prompter control
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And then this can be for the scroll. So that'll scroll down and then this one I can have it to scroll upwards
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Now I want to keep the speeds consistent. So I'll do it kind of like five here. And this one I'll do negative five
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And the middle one, I guess I can put prompt or control again
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And then this can be like a play pause one. And it immediately starts working
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So if I press the right side, oops, starts going down, scrolling down, let go
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and now it's scrolling down to whatever speed it was currently set at yeah scroll speed 44
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so let me just change it to nothing so when it's nothing that means i would be the only one
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responsible for scrolling down let go or scroll back up and let go and i guess the play pause
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let's see if it actually does something no i wouldn't do anything let's see if i have a 100
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percent playback speed. Let me press it again. There. Now it plays and then it pauses and then
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I can just mainly control and I let go. Yeah the controls still work well. And one more thing too
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about this is that the tension can be adjusted simply by removing these screws and then changing
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out the springs. But in my case this feels pretty solid. Feels fine. It is kind of hard to do but
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because it's going to be with my foot. It'll be fairly easy to press down. So overall, I'm pretty
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happy with the combo. I'm glad I got this type of teleprompter with this pedal. It's going to make
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reading scripts a lot easier, and now I can control the speed. I can flow much better without having
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as many mess-ups. But yeah, that's a quick unboxing and setup of the prompter and the stream deck
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