GLIDE GEAR TMP100

I've spent many decades in media production and television systems and have even repped teleprompter products. I'm out of the TV biz and into online learning now and I needed a sturdy, light and not very expensive teleprompter rig for my DSLR camera. This does the trick for a nice low price. The build quality is much better than I'd expected. The rig is aluminum (not plastic) and nicely finished. Adjustment knobs are large and easy to get to. The mirror frame is thick, protective and also aluminum. Camera position is easily adjustable, though the sled could be longer to accommodate slightly bigger cameras and/or longer lenses.T he camera mount has quality rubber pads to hold your camera firmly and is thick enough aluminum that I'd suspect you'd be able to extend it with another aluminum plate to get that length for many longer lenses. The mount for the phone or tablet is also aluminum and is adjustable enough to fit my 7 inch tablet and one of the many old phones I have lying around (that I never seem to get around to selling). The aluminum here could be a little thicker; it's plenty strong to hold any phone or tablet, I'm just afraid I'll bend it someday if I kick over the tripod or someone runs into it -but I nit pick. It also comes with a very sturdy plastic rig for your phone. The 1/4 20 knob, not only tightens the rig to the prompter sled, it also has a 1/4 20 on it's bottom so you could use your phone on a tripod or fishpole without the prompter. A spring loaded sturdy metal clip holds your phone very securely and the rubber inserts at top and bottom protect it from marring. I saw comments about the cloth hood. The firmness of the hood here is such that you can push it where you want and it stays up out of the way of the lens and that's nice. It's also a sturdy material that will last. I do augment it with a thin black cloth to cover any gaposis. Not a huge problem. I've also paired this with a free teleprompter app (Proverb Teleprompter) made by some churchy outfit that allows me to upload text files and with the Parrot Telemprompter Remote I can advance and rewind the app fairly easily. It all folds up rather flat and fits in a canvas-like case with appropriate quality hard white foam. This is really a nice little unit for on-the-go prompting and for the price, it's that rare high quality, low priced bargain.

The Glide Gear TMP 75 Laptop Smartphone TelePrompter is a stellar product for a few reasons. The first of which is the size. I create Instagram Reels content filming in public places like coffee shops and pubs, so the form factor works perfectly with a table top tripod. It doesn't dominate the table and it's easy to move around to get the shot framed correctly. Second, the quality of the materials and manufacturing are off the charts. The rails and base plate system are fabulous and easy to adjust to accommodate a smart phone or camera, or in my case a GoPro. Third, the fabric hood is insanely easy to remove and replace to adjust the camera. Other models from different manufacturers are not as easy to setup and take down. Fourth, the included carry case is no larger than an insulated lunch bag. Very easy to carry if you're on the move. I can recommend this product without hesitation. I am thrilled by the function, the quality and the portability.

I have some experience with a variety of other teleprompters. This one is made extremely well and certainly has design elements that are superior to the other brands. If you're looking for a portable teleprompter, this is the one for you. Pros: 1. Glass is fantastic material. Truly better glass than most out there and great reflectivity. 2. The design overall is stylish and flattering. The cloth cover/shield is rigid and aesthetic, unlike other cheap teleprompters. Cons: *I'm rather critical in all of my reviews, so these are less cons than user experience feedback 1. The extra screws on the left and right of the aluminum are designed to attach accessories such as mics and lights. Keep in mind that they are very easily loosened because it is a single 1/4" knob that screws into your ball head joint or whatever you're using to attach the other devices. What this means is that every time I tried to adjust the microphone, the screw would slip and I would need to retighten. I tried holding up my small 5.5" feelworld monitor on the side: it worked with a few diy solutions, but whenever i tried putting the npf battery in, the screw would easily come undone and then it was difficult to install. 2. The design is best suited for an iPad; anything thicker than an iPad would work, but need other reinforcements to get it tight. I use a Feelworld 7 inch monitor with this. It works great, but the edges of the field monitor is too thick to be held by the teleprompter's clamps. As a compromise, I put a piece of foam on one edge to add some extra resistance so the clamps could clamp the edge tightly. When you have HDMI cords and power adapters connected to the monitor, you definitely don't want it to fall so this was my workaround. 3. Cost. I still feel that for a piece of aluminum... some cloth and velcro, and a two-way mirror... I'm not sure why teleprompters even at the budget range are as expensive as they are. Even so, to me, it's well worth the extra $50 for this one when comparing it to other budget teleprompters. And certainly, why even spend money on the $1,000 teleprompters when this works just as well? Conclusion: Don't even look at the other budget teleprompters. This has all the design specifications and features and is extremely quality.

Professional teleprompters can cost a small fortune. This is perhaps the ideal budget option. Using any teleprompter app on your tablet or smartphone, this will get the job done, and at a tiny fraction of the price of professional units. However, there are a couple things to think about before you buy this. First, you'll need some extra supplies. You'll need a good high-quality tripod. This prompter isn't terribly heavy (fortunately!) so it doesn't need to be the most expensive one in the world, but you are going to make your tripod very top-heavy, so you'll need a decent one. You'll also need a tablet with a teleprompter app. Technically, you can use a smartphone, but the extra screen space you get from a tablet is really necessary. Teleprompter apps range from free to fairly expensive, but you should be able to find what you need without spending more than a few dollars. Personally, since I'm a solo operation most of the time, I also use a Bluetooth "page turner" foot pedal device (as musicians might use) to control the prompter app. And, of course, you'll need a good camera. None of these things are included, but you probably already have most of them. The quality of the prompter is good enough. It works perfectly, though it feels cheap in its construction, so you'll want to be extra careful not to bend the metal parts or break the glass. Fortunately, the carrying case it comes with is very well padded, so I've not had any trouble there. Most importantly, it works the way it's supposed to. The glass is held at the proper angle to reflect the text to your eyes while keeping it invisible to your camera. Its functionality there justifies the little bit of extra effort it took to get it in working order for my particular circumstances. And it did take a little bit of extra effort to get it to work, because there are a couple of design flaws. First, the cloth hood you use to shield out the light obscures the bracket you use to mount your camera. There needs to be a hole in the cloth through which you can screw the camera to the prompter, but there was no such hole. This is a relatively easy fix--just a couple minutes with a pair of scissors or a utility knife will get the job done. But it should have been done by the manufacturer. Attaching the camera is also fairly difficult. To attach it, you rest the camera on the prompter (inside the hood) and attach a screw from beneath the prompter. Lining these screws up while your vision is blocked by the hood is a nightmare, so you may want to find a way to streamline the process for yourself. In my case (your experience will vary depending on which camera you use), my camera also rests a little too low, so the lens is always at the very bottom of my text rather than the center. I solved both of those problems by buying a simple 1.5 inch 1/4-20 tripod extender. It raises the camera to the correct height, solving the second problem, and also provides a much easier target for the screw, solving the first problem (and decreasing my total setup time for the teleprompter from about fifteen frustrating minutes to about thirty easy seconds). At first, I was a little disappointed by this product. I was still using it because I found it to be the closest to what I needed within my price range, but it was always frustrating to use. However, by adding a few extra accessories to it, I've elevated it to one of the most useful products in my kit. In that spirit, I DO highly recommend it IF you're willing to spend a little time getting it the way you want it. I wouldn't consider it ready to go right out of the box.

Before buying the Glide Gear TMP 75 I bought (and will now return) another small teleprompter that was all plastic and a little bit less expensive. I knew I'd break that thing in no time just switching lenses at my desk. This Glide Gear unit though... it's awesome! The only challenge I ran into is related to how far the rails extend, making me do some strange angling of two ball mounts to get it far enough away from the wall. You need about 8.5" from the wall and the center of your mounting position to fit this. It seems like the Glide Gear TMP 75 is marketed more as a webcam teleprompter to place on top of your computer. I've set it up with a Sony A6400 and a big and heavy Sigma 24mm Art lens with an old iPhone X I had laying around used as a dedicated display. This setup is awesome! I'm adding a quick release mount to make it easy to remove the camera and this thing will be good to go. Oh, consider removing the inner velcro curtain, the one with the hole in it. I considered cutting it to fit my 77mm lens, but found it was completely unnecessary if you use the hood. Maybe that's in the instructions, but I don't read those. Finding a teleprompter app that has all the features I want is a story for another day...

I got this for making Youtube videos. I record on a smartphone and use my old out-of-date smartphone as a teleprompting source. This teleprompter is perfect for that. The good: 1. The track behind the glass is T-shaped, which is perfect for recording on a cell phone because cell phone cameras are located in a corner of the device. So the T-shaped track lets you mount the phone to one side or the other, such that you can put the camera in the middle of the glass. 2. The build quality is solid. Miles better than the Parrot teleprompter that I bought on Kickstarter. For $100 this teleprompter is a much better value. (The Parrot is also $100) 3. You can actually use this teleprompter with a regular camera for filming as well as a cellphone. What might might not be ideal is the length of the T-shaped track behind the glass. If you use a really long lens then it might not fit on the track. 4. The included black fabric is nice and stiff, so it doesn't drape down and get in the shot. 5. I like the carrying case. It's not a super high quality case that will withstand tons of road use, but it's good enough for light travel or for storing the teleprompter. 6. I like that this is foldable. I don't have a lot of space in my house, so I appreciate that I can pack this away when I'm not using it. The not-so-good: 1. The included cell phone holder is very stiff, and it's difficult for me to get my phone in and out of it. I use a cell phone tripod mount made by a different company and it works much better. 2. The glass is just a hair smaller than I'd like it to be. I film with my cell phone camera in selfie mode so that I can make sure that I'm in frame. I use a Google Pixel (NOT the XL version) and when my camera is centered in the glass (which it must be, or else the corners of the teleprompter are in the shot), my cell phone juts out the side of the teleprompter. I also can't see about a half inch of my screen, so it is hard to tell if I'm centered in frame or not. Overall, I'd recommend this teleprompter to any Youtuber looking to improve the quality of their videos. It's not perfect--if I wanted something better than I might try the TMP 100--but since this one is half the price of the TMP 100, I'll live with the minor drawbacks.

The Glide Gear TMP50 is a good solution for a teleprompter for solo video recordings. TMP50 is only for smartphones and small tablets as the teleprompter source display. I have found the size of the teleprompter text with a large smartphone to be quite satisfactory for my setup with my Sony ZV-1 camera. You will want to test out ahead of time with your video camera and your setup. (i.e. Can you easily read teleprompter text on your smartphone or small tablet at the distance of your camera and with your desired framing?) The TMP50 works perfectly using a Google Pixel 2 XL smartphone with its 6.0-inch (152 mm) screen as the prompter text source. It also works with a Google Pixel 4a smartphone with its 5.8-inch (148 mm) screen as the prompter text source. The TMP50 allows easy mounting and access to the smartphone including cable access and buttons on the phone sides and back. It's also easy to remove and replace the smartphone to setup more complex operations like navigating app menus. The TMP50 does not work with an 9.7-inch (250 mm) iPad. The iPad fits on the Glide Gear TMP50's support bracket, but the reflecting surface is not big enough to reflect the width of the iPad screen-- see photo. You will need a larger teleprompter such as the TMP100 for use with an 9.7" iPad. I am using the TMP50 with a Sony ZV-1 camera. I've found it necessary to use a bracket to mount the camera centered behind the teleprompter using the TMP50's front-back mounting slot. I'm using the excellent UURig Base Mount Bracket (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B08FHV5GZL) which provides optical-axis-aligned 1/4-20 mounting holes. (Smallrig makes a similar product that should work.) Centering the camera is critical for operation of the camera at full wide angle without vignetting or obstruction by the teleprompter and its cloth shroud. The ZV-1 can't be centered in the TMP50 using the ZV-1's built-in off-axis 1/4-20 hole. When the camera is mounted off-center it is has to be mounted skewed about 15-degrees to the teleprompter's center axis to avoid vignetting or obstruction by the teleprompter and its cloth shroud at full wide angle. I don't know how well this will work with the teleprompter effect. In addition to the front-back mounting slot, the TMP50 has a left-right mounting slot to correct the centering of smartphone cameras. But the slot is too close to the half-mirror glass for use with the ZV-1 (and probably most other cameras). (The ZV-1 lens will collide with the teleprompter glass if mounted to the left-right slot.) The ZV-1 view screen can't be flipped to monitor the frame while mounted behind the teleprompter. If you try to view it through the teleprompter you will obscure the teleprompter half-mirror effect making your source text unreadable. But Sony offers smartphone and computer "Imaging Edge" control apps. These allow you to monitor your ZV-1 frame on a computer or smartphone or tablet. (Obviously, you can't use the same smartphone you are using as the teleprompter source text.) This teleprompter doesn't come with a teleprompter text app. I am using the PromptSmart app. It works quite well and will track your voice to follow your script, or you can control scrolling with a PromptSmart remote control app on a second smartphone running the same OS as the PromptSmart app.

I make a handful of videos each month and I needed a solid teleprompter that would work seamlessly with my DSLR and iPad. After a bit of searching, I came upon the TPM 100 and ordered it. Overall, excellent build quality and flawless glass. It's got solid, robust construction, and it keeps my camera extremely stable on its tripod mount. In a nutshell, a checks off all the boxes. Plus, it breaks down quite easily and has a handy bag to tow it around. Zero regrets. Great purchase.