How To Control Your Elgato Prompter Using Your Stream Deck | Setup & Example Workflows

in this video I'm going to show you how to control your Elgato prompter with your stream deck now Elgato does provide a plug-in for the prompter so you can use it with your stream deck but confusingly it's actually called camera Hub because that's the software that actually controls the prompter now I've made a couple of videos which you can see up here regarding how to get the prompter working and some other bits and pieces but this video is going to be showing you how you can control some of the wonderful features in the Elgato prompter at the touch of a button with your stream deck so let's get on with it all right let's get that pesky camera Hub software you have to go to marketplace. elgato.com and it you be presented with this website they've changed it recently now all your plugins and stream deck icons and stuff like that is from the marketplace but never fear so let's click on stream deck and let's just search for camera Hub and and you simply just click on this click on get and then it's going to ask you to sign in you'll need an account to sign in and get access to this camera Hub software but it is free once you've signed in gone to your cart and clicked on it it will install it into your stream deck as part of the built-in profiles and just keep in mind that camera Hub obviously controls the Elgato cameras as well as prompter super confusing but thank you anyway Elgato let's get into stream deck and show you how to configure this so you've got your camera Hub stream deck plug-in installed let's go over to the stream deck application as you can see here so we' got stream deck on my left and on the right is the actual prompter and you can see if I drag in my promos you can see that this is an actual screen share of the prompter so when we go through the quick demo here you'll see what I will be seeing on the prompter itself all right so here's the stream deck application and as you can see we've got a ton of different plugins here the one we're interested in is camera Hub so let's open this up now camera Hub is a application for both the cameras and the Elgato prompter making it at Tad confusing a lot of people were asking well where is the plugin for the prompter well it's right here in the camera Hub as you can see and there's a couple of options that aren't relevant to to the prompter which is Select camera adjust camera reset camera and all that kind of stuff the ones we're interested in is the prompter control prompt to display prompt to mode prompt to appearance and prompt to scrolling now these actions within the stream deck have multi-purposes which means that one particular function can do multiple things so I'll give you a couple of examples to show you how this works but first let's quickly go into the camera Hub software and let me show you some of the features on how you would control the promptu just from the camera Hub because that'll make it more relevant to show you then well we can actually do these with the stream deck let's map them and show you how that works let's first take a look at the camera Hub software that comes with the prompter and this will make it easier for you to see what kind of control we have over the prompter and then how we can map that to the stream neck so here is the camera Hub software as you can see and just to show you that this prompter is a real prompter I'm just going to drag my YouTube video over there and then just play that for a second and because it's a prompter obviously I'm screen sharing exactly what you are seeing or what I'm seeing should I say within the prompter but you get the same type of view so let's just close that down for a second so you can see my Promos in here so the prompter is controlled by the camera Hub this is the beta version of the camera Hub software I'm using right now and there'll be a link in the description below and over my shoulder somewhere for that video to give you an idea about what the beta software actually does and types of things some of the new features are power buttons but I'll show you if I turn the power on and off you can see that the prompter is going on and off you can control the brightness and so on but obviously the prompter comes into its own when you have the text that you want to show as a teleprompter function So within the content here you can see that we've got display text and chat chat is really at the moment only for twitch so I don't use that but I just obviously use it either as display or text if I click on text this will now show you the um script that I've just done for Opus Pro and if I hit the play button down here you can obviously see it playing through now the controls that you have with the camera Hub are things like changing the font size the margins line spacing all kinds of stuff and then the speed of the chapters as they're going through so you can see I'm speeding it up and I'm slowing it down so camera Hub obviously is pretty good with regards to all the control over it but the good thing is that you can do all this now from your stream deck so you can control all these functions of camera Hub to control your prompter with your stream deck so let's head over to the stream deck configuration and I'll show you some of the buttons that you can assign and how you control your prompter so the prompter can be controlled with any stream deck model it doesn't really matter I have the stream deck mini and the plus the plus gives you different controls because obviously it has rotary controls and stuff like that but the stream deck plug-in for the camera hub will work with any stream deck so let's head over to the stream deck software so this is my stream deck plus I've got an empty page at the moment so I just want to show you some of the controls with that so let's grab the first one which is prompter control let's pop it into one of the buttons and over here on my right is the prompter so you can see it's an actual prompter display if I brought in a Google Chrome window for examp example you can see that it's there and scrolling and all that lovely stuff so the first one is the play pause now some of these buttons have multifunction so if you click on the drop-down menu you can see that we've also got scroll and select so let's start with a play pause now obviously this relates to any script that you've got so I'm going to go over to the text and turn on the text on the prompter this is the script that I had before and if I just press the button now on the stream deck this one you'll see that the prompter starts playing Super Duper and if you hit it again it will pause the display so you can also do a couple of other things with the same button so if we scroll down and pick scroll this will now scroll the text in the prompter to the top so if you see I'm hitting the button it's just going to scroll it to the top so it's just a stepbystep scroll to get you to the top or a particular place within your script and the one at the bottom I'm not going to bother with at the moment because that's just for chat messages and um I'm not using that one so the next one down is text so I can actually go between my different chapters so on the camera Hub software you'll know that you can create chapters in your script so I've got a few set up here so I'm just going to toggle through and this is going to oh not previous should be next sorry let's go on here added on previous so I'm just going to go to next chapter so you can create multiple buttons with next or previous chapter so let's just copy this button here and put it there and we'll do uh previous for that one and next for that one so now I'm just toggling between as you can see the different chapters on my script the other thing that you can do with this same button is let's have a look you got previous and then we'll scroll down you go first last and then index so let's just go to First and that will take me straight to the first chapter on my script so really useful button there if I use the same button which is the prompter control and pop that now into one of the rotary dials of the stream deck plus I will get similar functionality so play and pause so down here now this is the play and pause button so I'm playing through the script again I'm going to pause the script uh so the setting there is set for control if I was to um play and now turn the rotary control you can't see me turning it but what I'm doing is I'm actually skipping through some of the text so I'm getting you know the same as I had before with the buttons but now I'm just scrolling through I'm just going to pause that and if I do the rotary controls you can hear me turning it I'm just winding the script back and then um the other button we can have I think that's it actually for that one and then you can jump to chat if you had chat open so for the rotary control it's just play pause turn the rotary dial and you can skip through your text let's let's take a look at another couple of buttons so we just created our first simple button to control the prompter with the stream deck plugins let's go back to the stream deck software and look at our camera Hub plugin you may have noticed on the top here that we have two options as well one called keys and one called dials and this is because I'm using the stream deck plus because the stream deck plus has both keys and rotary dial controls the software is actually pretty clever because it's actually showing you which functions are available depending on which mode or which keys that you want to use so if I click on keys for example within the camera Hub it show me everything that's available that I can assign to a particular button or key if I click on dials it's now just given me a subset of what I can use with a rotary control because obviously you can't use every function within the plug-in with a rotary control so it's pretty clever right so just showing you which one I can use if I'm going to assign a rotary control as opposed to having it on a key so we just did the prompter control let's just go back to Keys again let's do uh prompter display so if we click on this and just drag this first of all into one of the keys you get one option here I think and it's just called brightness and I can just change the brightness of my prompter with one button controls so if I just want to turn it all the way down so for example if I'm talking and using it as a confidence monitor sometimes you do get some glare on the prompter or from the prompter should I say on your glasses so in this particular case I'm just going to wind this down to maybe 32% and if you watch the prompter if I click on the key you'll see that it's already dimmed the display and if I whack it up all the way to 100% as it is now if I press the key again it's going to make oops if I press the key again sorry we do that then it's going it should come on it should make it 100% it has made it 100% sorry that took some time that's a bit weird but I should have made it 100% let's just try that again real quick so wind it down to this value a low value here click on the key drops it down click on the value to 100% come on click and drag to 100% click on that again yeah all right that was me my bad all right so that's just using a key to control the brightness with a set particular figure let's just delete that and grab that same prompter control but this time in dials you don't have to select dials you can just do the prompter display and pop it straight into your dial and now you get a rotary control to assign the brightness of your screen so right now the step size is just one times you can wind that up so that means as you turn the dial it's it's going to make larger increments and I'm just going to it's already at 100% so I'm just going to turn it and wind it down and it's actually controlling the slider on the camera Hub let me show you what that looks like so using the power of vcam I've just switched between what I'm showing you so here now you'll see the brightness control of the camera Hub software itself and obviously I can adjust this manually but if I turn the brightness control which you can't see but trust me I'm turning it now on the stream deck you can see that it's actually changing the slider on the brightness control of the camera Hub how cool is that so it's a good reference point you know it's actually working and then you don't know how to have the camera Hub software open you can use your stream deck to control it fully all right let's go back to the stream deck software and show you some more buttons all right let's get into the stream deck software again I've removed the buttons that we assigned before because we're going to have a look at a couple of others so let's look at prompter to scrolling which is a useful one so obviously this is going to change the speed of your text that you've added to your camera Hub software which is your script and then prompt to control let's add a button to play and pause this let's just drag this here into this button so this is going to play and pause our script as before and now down at the bottom because I've got this scroll speed set to 79% I'm going to slow this down so you can see that my text is really starting to slow down in the prompter which is great if I want to control what I'm reading and the speed that I'm reading but it allows you to do many more control over the prompter as well just by assigning different buttons so let's just pause that for a second just by hitting this key up here let's go to the dials you don't have to go to the dials you can just drag anyone in that you want but now let's take a look at prompter appearance because prompter appearance is a multi-function action and what I mean by that is the setting here has multiple configurations so if I click this one you've got font size horizontal margin vertical margin the opacity and line spacing the opacity is useful if you've got something behind the text as we'll see in a second I'll just put a YouTube video behind there but let's just take a look at a couple of these settings so let's do font size now font size is going to change obviously the size of the font on the prompter and you can see if I'm changing this rotary control here I'm changing the size of my font so that's good to get the font size um how you want it to be set so you're not seeing your rise dot left and right when you're reading let's use the same button so we can copy this and paste it into here contr r c contrl v uh the first one was font size uh the second one is the horizontal margin so now we can change the margin of this and you can see that I'm making it larger or squishing it in just by changing the rot control so this is great as well for aligning the margin in line with how you speak and how far away the prompter is from you again you don't want to see your eyes stting left and right so you can adjust this on the Fly With The Stream deck and then copy and paste again or you can just drag it in let's just drag it in for Giggles we've already got uh font size is the first one horizontal margin is the other one let's do the opacity now you'll see when I change the opacity that the screen is going darker and lighter let me just grab a chrome window let's say it's a YouTube video in the back I'll pop it in and then we'll change the opacity to show you how that looks let's grab something to go behind the text just putp my YouTube video over there let's go back to the opacity setting and you can see I'm changing the opacity now so that is um down to the bottom zero and now this is at a 100% so you can see that I'm controlling how much of the screen behind the text wants to be shown through and this is great for when you're on Zoom calls and things like that so you can really sort of dial in how you want the video or whatever you're showing on your teleprompter to look as you're playing the text so I'm going to press the play button here let's play it I will adjust the speed of my scrolling with the first rotary dial like that and then I'm just going to adjust the opacity in fact let me just speed that up a little bit so make it so you can actually see it's actually playing faster now and then I'm adjusting the opacity and getting that dialed in and I'm also changing the margin at the same time so there you have it I find it really useful to be using the stream deck instead of the camera Hub software to control the prompter I've only really scratched the surface there are still a number of different workflows and functions that you can assign the stream deck to control your prompter with but I found them really useful and I hope find this video useful too if you do want to know more about setting up your stream deck and you think this video is useful and leave a comment below and I'll consider doing another video with some different workflows for using your stream deck maybe with a prompter maybe with other workflows as well thank you for watching if you like this video you know what to do and I will see you in the next one

Channel: Neil Farrimond

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Length: 19min 2sec (1142 seconds)

Published: Mon Mar 04 2024