Teleprompter

A floating window that scrolls your script across the screen while you record — so you can read naturally without freezing up or breaking eye contact with the camera. Invisible to the recording.

Open it

Choose View → Show Teleprompter, or press ⌘+T. A floating panel titled Teleprompter appears on top of your other windows. It stays in place across desktops and full-screen apps, and joins fullscreen as an auxiliary panel so it’s always reachable.

Loading your script

The teleprompter window contains a plain-text editor at the top. Type or paste your script directly. There’s no rich formatting — just the words you’re going to read. Newlines are preserved so you can structure the script into paragraphs that match your delivery beats.

The window opens with a short sample text so you can see how it scrolls; just select all and replace it with your own.

Controls

Play / Pause — starts and stops scrolling. Pause is automatic when you click anywhere outside the panel.
Speed — how many points per second the text scrolls. Default 30 pt/s; the slider goes from a slow crawl up to fast skim.
Font size — 16 to 72 pt. Bump it up if the panel is far from your eyes; size doesn’t affect anything in the recording.
Reset — jump back to the top of the script.

Why it’s invisible to recordings

Screen Cut Pro tags the teleprompter window with macOS’s window sharing-type .none. ScreenCaptureKit (the API that does the recording) skips windows with that flag, so your viewers will never see the prompter even if it’s smack in the middle of your screen during capture. That includes:

Full display recordings.
Single-window recordings of any other app.
Custom-area recordings, even when the teleprompter sits inside the area you defined.

Workflow tips

Position it where the camera is. If you’re also recording webcam, drag the teleprompter so its center sits as close to the lens as possible — you’ll look like you’re making eye contact with the viewer instead of reading off to the side.
Match speed to your cadence. Read a paragraph at your natural pace, then nudge the speed up or down so the next line lands as you finish the current one. Practice once before recording to find the right number.
Break the script into chunks. Use blank lines between paragraphs — the white space gives you natural pauses where you can breathe and the scroll catches up.
Pair with narration. If you’re using on-device voice cloning for the voiceover, the same script can drive both: read on camera, then paste into the Generate Narration dialog if you decide to dub the audio after the fact.

Closing

Click the close button on the panel, or run View → Show Teleprompter a second time to toggle it. Closing the panel does not lose your script if the app stays open — reopen the teleprompter and your text is still there.