Rehearse and pace
How to rehearse a Facecast script full-screen, choose a pace, and use the teleprompter over the video, beside it or in the pop-out.
Rehearse before you record. It costs a minute and saves the take.
Rehearse full-screen#
Open a script and choose the full-screen prompt (press F). Read it out loud. The controls fade while you read. Change the pace until the words feel like yours: 140 words per minute is a calm start, and 60 to 260 are allowed.
Choose where the text sits#
In the studio the teleprompter can sit over the video at the top or bottom, beside the video, or in the pop-out control bar. Put it as close to the lens as the layout allows, so your eyes stay near it. It is never recorded, whichever you choose.
A rhythm that works#
- Read it in full once to find the clumsy sentences.
- Switch to bullets and say it in your own words.
- Record in the mode that sounded best.
Time#
Words divided by pace is minutes. If a full text has 700 words and the pace is 140, the take runs about five minutes.