Your script runs the show.
PteroPrompter reads a markdown script. The markup tells you how to say the words; inline tokens tell the show what to do. Everything the prompter needs is in the document, which means the document is the only thing you have to keep correct.
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 · 600MS
PROMPTER · PAUSE · 5S
PROMPTER · ROLLBACK · SCRIPT-START
- Writing scriptsThe four marks, slide headings, and how word count sets your scroll speed.
- Control tokensThe grammar that turns a script into show control. Pauses, markers, recording, decks.
- Running a takeThe cold open, the take clock, and what happens when you go again.
- Markers and the editReading the script marks the timeline. Retakes, holes and colours, all derived.
- Organizing scriptsHow scripts belong to a team, and where projects are heading. Early days.
- The rigEyeline, mirroring, OBS, the speech sidecar, and what lives on this device.
The shortest possible script
[SLIDE 01 — hello]
<|OBS::scene: full-cam|> Hello world. This is **the whole thing**.
<|Prompter::Pause: 2s|> <|OBS::record:stop|> <|Prompter::stop|>Press play from the top and that records a take, logs three cues, and stops itself.
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