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Thursday, May 19, 2011
Prompters In Action
These prompters are outside of the WNET Public Channel building in New York City, just a block down from Julliard. Note the Autoscript logo:
More Notes on Working with the Autocue SS17
In terms of overall build quality it's a prompter whose lines give confidence.
However: there are these little silver things that sit in the rails that posts stand on - I've mentioned these posts in prior postings.
Those little silver things have little tongues that press them up into the roof of their groove so they don't fall out. OTOH in normal use, those little tongues are somewhat fragile and break: then the silver thing falls out of the machine.
Also: As I had mentioned in other posts, Autocue doesn't include an additional screw for the camera if the camera plate is mounted and the riser plate is used: that means you need two screws - one to screw the prompter rails into the camera plate on the sticks, and another to screw the camera actual onto the riser plate.
Be sure as a prompter operator to bring an extra set. I was lucky on one shoot to have a cameraman with an extra screw, and another with mechanic sense to find a regular metal screw that would fit, that bolstered the difference with nuts and washers.
Going to B&H to get the rest of the parts.
ALSO: If you're buying a case for it, the Pelican 1660 is a monster-widowmaker case. While the Pelican 1650 case seems ideal, I haven't proven you can cut the foam and set the prompter in there as of yet, in addition to the monitor.
Both Pelican cases are outstanding in their own right but the 1660 is really very, very large.
However: there are these little silver things that sit in the rails that posts stand on - I've mentioned these posts in prior postings.
Those little silver things have little tongues that press them up into the roof of their groove so they don't fall out. OTOH in normal use, those little tongues are somewhat fragile and break: then the silver thing falls out of the machine.
Also: As I had mentioned in other posts, Autocue doesn't include an additional screw for the camera if the camera plate is mounted and the riser plate is used: that means you need two screws - one to screw the prompter rails into the camera plate on the sticks, and another to screw the camera actual onto the riser plate.
Be sure as a prompter operator to bring an extra set. I was lucky on one shoot to have a cameraman with an extra screw, and another with mechanic sense to find a regular metal screw that would fit, that bolstered the difference with nuts and washers.
Going to B&H to get the rest of the parts.
ALSO: If you're buying a case for it, the Pelican 1660 is a monster-widowmaker case. While the Pelican 1650 case seems ideal, I haven't proven you can cut the foam and set the prompter in there as of yet, in addition to the monitor.
Both Pelican cases are outstanding in their own right but the 1660 is really very, very large.
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