Your script runs the show.

Write markdown, press play — it counts you in with 3·2·1·SMILE·GO, rolls OBS, follows your voice through the script, advances your slides, and hands your editor timestamped markers.

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SLIDE 1 · cold open140 WPM

OBS · SCENE · FULL-CAM-NORMAL Good evening, and welcome to The Back Row, where we take cinema seriously — occasionally more seriously than it takes itself. MARKER · LOGO-STING Tonight: Wobble Street, season fifty-four, episode twelve. “The Muffin.”

OBS · SCENE · FULL-SCREEN But first, MARKER · AD-FILMSTOCK tonight's episode is brought to you by Filmstock, the streaming service for people who describe films as “texts”. Two thousand titles, and a search box that has never once found the one you wanted. filmstock.example.

PROMPTER · PAUSE · 5S

PROMPTER · ROLLBACK · SCRIPT-START

**bold** vocal stress *italic* aside `code` identifier "quote" quotation ⟨directive⟩ never spoken⟨OBS::scene⟩ show control

What it does

01 · SCRIPT

Markdown in, show out

Bold is vocal stress, italic an aside, `backticks` code, "quotes" sage. The color key trains your delivery while you read it.

02 · CONTROL

Show-control directives

Inline chips are never spoken, never counted toward scroll speed, and always logged as cues — a scene cue lands as an edit marker on its own, and drives OBS live the moment you arm it.

03 · COLD OPEN

The composed cold open

A 3·2·1·SMILE·GO countdown; recording auto-rolls at the start. No scrambling for the mouse on camera.

04 · OBS-NATIVE

Pinned to real timecode

Connects to OBS and pins every cue to the recording's own timecode — so your markers still match the footage even when the clocks drift.

05 · EXPORT

Edit-ready markers

One click exports the take's cue log as CSV: chapters, retake flags, and b-roll spans drop onto your editor's timeline as markers. DaVinci Resolve ready today.

06 · SAFETY

Take insurance

A staleness guard hash-checks the script at GO and won't record a stale page. The cue log survives refreshes, so a take's markers can't be lost.

07 · FOLLOW MODE

It follows your voice

A speech sidecar hears what you actually say and moves the script with you — lose your place and it waits; read on and a held pause releases. No sidecar running? It coasts at your set pace, exactly as before.

08 · EYELINE

Framing without the glance

Your OBS virtual camera or a raw camera feed, faint and centered right on the reading line, so you can check your framing without ever breaking eye contact with the lens.

09 · SLIDES

The deck keeps up

[SLIDE 12] headings advance your deck as you reach them — no clicker, no second operator watching for your nod.

· Pickup & teaser sections with their own take clock
·Retake-aware chapter logging
· Beam-splitter mirror mode — flips the script, never the controls
· A draggable reading line every cue's timecode fires against

On the way

NEXT · VOICE

Say the cue, it fires

The sidecar already hears you. The same command bus your ⟨tokens⟩ run through will take spoken commands — pause, next scene, mark that — so the show runs without your hands leaving the desk.

NEXT · REMOTE

A remote in your hand

It's all websocket already, so a second device — phone, laptop, Stream Deck, iMac — becomes a remote: play, pause, pace, jump a section, without touching the machine you read from. The hands-free fallback for when the speech sidecar isn't an option.

NEXT · SLIDES

Builds on cue, not just slides

Auto-advance moves the deck today. Next, the same [SLIDE] grammar fires builds, transitions, and animations exactly when you reach them.

How it works

Write

Plain markdown plus ⟨chips⟩ for every cue. The document is the entire show.

Record

Countdown, auto-roll, and a live cue log ticking against the recording's own timecode.

Edit

Export CSV → timeline markers, YouTube chapters ready. One person, one take, edit-ready metadata.

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