BURY ST. EDMUNDS, U.K.—At the 2026 NAB Show, April 18-22 in Las Vegas, Autocue will highlight its latest prompting solutions, including its new PTZ prompter

Launched at the 2026 IBC Show and making its NAB Show debut, Autocue’s new PTZ prompter will be demonstrated with a Sony FR7, showing how the camera can calibrate seamlessly within the hood. This enables fast setup and startup, helping operators maintain efficient workflows in remote and automated productions.

Autocue will also demonstrate its Pioneer Studio Teleprompter, a high-performance, high brightness prompter designed to meet the demands of modern studio production. Shown with a clock and tally light, the complete Pioneer Studio package delivers a reliable, broadcast-standard prompting solution while remaining a cost-effective option for a wide-range of production studios.

“NAB is an important opportunity for us to demonstrate how our solutions are evolving alongside the industry,” said Aaron Brady, Technical Specialist. “From our award-winning PTZ prompter to accessible, high-performance studio systems like Pioneer, we’re focused on making professional prompting more flexible and efficient than ever.”

Autocue will be in booth C5816 in the Central Hall of the LVCC.

BURY ST. EDMUNDS, England—Autoscript and Autocue will showcase their newly launched PTZ prompter system during IBC2025, Sept. 12-15 at the RAI Amsterdam Convention Center.

Designed to provide seamless, professional prompting in dynamic multicamera environments, the PTZ prompter system is shared by both brands. The Autoscript PTZ Prompter and the Autocue PTZ Prompter feature a purpose-built, rigid enclosure that houses the PTZ camera. The solution offers streamlined installation, efficient cable routing, PTZ camera protection and a superior on-air experience.

“Prompting with PTZ cameras has always involved compromise until now,” said Anel Abiken, product manager of prompting. “By collaborating across both brands and closely with our customers, we’ve developed an innovative solution that offers a stable, flexible solution for any studio setup. It simplifies installation, protects the camera and improves workflow across the board.”

Engineered for broadcast use, the PTZ prompters support a wide range of PTZ cameras, including the Sony FR7. When used with the Sony FR7, the camera can calibrate with the prompter glass mounted, eliminating the need to remove the glass to make adjustments.

Features include:

• In-hood calibration fully compatible with PTZ cameras, including the Sony FR7.
• Internal camera cradle for inverted PTZ mounting.
• Continuous adjustment of the camera position.
• Plus-or-minus 15-degree panning and plus-or-minus 5-degree tilting inside the hood with wide-angle lens.
• VESA mounting on top and rear for flexible rigging.
• Robust composite structure with internal cable routing.

The Autoscript PTZ Prompter comes in a premium EVO-IP configuration with carbon fiber finish and side flags, while the Autocue PTZ Prompter features a matte black design and Pioneer monitor options.

The PTZ prompters can be ordered beginning in September 2025 in the Autocue Pioneer and Autoscript EVO-IP configurations.

See Autocue and Autoscript at IBC2025 Stand 13.A05.

More information is available on the Autocue and Autoscript websites.

BURY ST. EDMUNDS, U.K.—Videndum will highlight the latest developments from its broad range of product brands, such as Anton/Bauer’s EDEN clean-energy alternative to traditional batteries and generator setups, during IBC2025, Sept. 12-15, at the RAI Amsterdam Convention Center.

The Anton/Bauer EDEN solution is designed for high-performance production environments and integrates seamlessly with existing workflows, offering quiet, emissions-free operation. Well-suited for on-location and studio shoots, EDEN is available in multiple configurations, including standalone units and rack-mounted solutions.

Other Videndum brand developments include:

• Autocue Pioneer, presenting the Pioneer Series of customizable prompting solutions built around speed, simplicity and sustainability. Pioneer Series features an adjustable mounting kit for faster, easier setup and balancing, and high-brightness monitors that remain visible in any lighting.
• Autoscript will feature Autoscript Voice, an advanced voice automation feature for WinPlus-IP. Integrating intelligent speech recognition, it enables hands-free prompting control in studios and control rooms.
• Litepanels will highlight the Astra IP LED panel that combines the signature output quality of the Astra series with IP65-rated durability. Weather-resistant and ruggedized, the Astra IP LED panel is well-suited to exterior shoots and wet locations. Litpanels will also highlight its Gemini 2x1 lightweight RGBWW hard panel and Studio X LED Fresnels.
• Manfrotto will feature the Manfrotto 500X compact, versatile fluid video head designed for smooth, professional camera movement in a lightweight form factor. Manfrotto will also showcase the ONE Hybrid tripod for creators who need to capture both photos and cinematic video on their mirrorless cameras without carrying two tripods.
• OConnor will showcase the 2575E Platinum Edition fluid head with refinements, including a stainless-steel center lock, lightweight carbon fiber cover and redesigned platform release mechanism, and the Ultimate 1040 paired with the Flowtech100 tripod.
• Rycote will showcase the Cyclone microphone windshield and shock mount combining advanced wind-noise reduction with shock isolation; the Modular Windshield Kit, including a Modular Suspension, Windshield, and Windjammer, designed for professionals requiring customizable wind and shock isolation; and Nano Shield Kit in a superior wind and shock isolation in a compact form.
• Sachtler will feature the Ace Mk II, its latest evolution of its lightweight Ace fluid head systems. Available in Ace M Mk II and Ace XL Mk II versions, the range provides smooth drag and reliable counterbalance in a compact package. The Ace M Mk II is suited to cameras up to 8.8 pounds (4 kg), while the Ace XL Mk II supports rigs up to 17.6 pounds (8 kg).
• Vinten will showcase VEGA, its next-generation robotic control system engineered for precision, intelligence and creative flexibility. VEGA combines exceptional on-air motion quality with AI-driven talent tracking and automatic shot reframing as well as integrated speech recognition, which allows presenters and operators to control robotic cameras.

See Videndum brands at IBC2025 Stand 13.A05.

More information is available on the Anton/Bauer, Autocue, Autoscript, Litepanels, Manfrotto, OConnor, Rycote, Sachtler and Vinten.

SEATTLE—Dating back to the 1960s, teleprompters have been must-have equipment for newscasts as well as politicians, even as the early models were Rube Goldberg-ish contraptions that scrolled typewritten scrolls just off the camera lens. Later, scripts rode a conveyor belt in front of chintzy black and white cameras, with the script displayed on CRT monitors that appeared in front of the camera lens through use of half-silvered mirrors. Computer-rendered text later replaced the scrolling paper scripts, and that’s where things have been for 40 or so years.

That’s not to say that nothing’s changed in prompting. There are a number of technology changes currently going on, with more just around the corner.

TIGHT SPACES

Michael Accardi, president of CueScript, said he’s seeing a number of news studios needing to work in tight spaces. That’s creating a lot of interest in his company’s PTZ prompter. “What we thought would be a small usage prompter has become outstanding for us.”

The trick to the PTZ prompter is getting the camera inside the hood, which allows proper positioning of the lens. “Being able to pan 90 degrees with a PTZ, being small enough to get it close to a wall in a newsroom, or for use in an office space; they get into places where people normally couldn’t get a prompter,” he said.

Accardi said studios are also considering IP-based prompters as part of an overall migration to an IP infrastructure. “We started doing IP from day-one, when we introduced our software in 2014,” he said. “Our approach has always been that you can go IP end to end, at all cost, if you so wish. But we don’t force it on you.”

CueScript’s prompter monitors, video boxes and controllers have IP network jacks on them, but the monitors and video boxes have SDI and composite inputs, and the controllers also provide USB and CAN bus (Controller Area Network) ports. “You get to pick and choose what you want,” Accardi said. “We don’t dictate to you.” But when the customer wants to go to IP, it’s there waiting to be implemented.

GETTING RID OF THE BOX

Robin Brown, prompting product manager for Autoscript and Autocue, said he’s also finding customer interest in IP prompting. In response the company launched their IP range in 2017, which gives customers the option to go between an IP and standard baseband video workflow.

“We understand that customers are still apprehensive or nervous about doing a complete switchover [to IP], so we provide a solution that has both different variances,” he said. “But the rate of uptake to an IP workflow does seem to be growing quite rapidly.”

Brown pointed to one of the big advantages to an IP prompting infrastructure: “The basic element is that it reduces the amount of hardware that you require,” he said. “Traditionally you would have a box that produces composite video or HDI video, which is connected to your PC via a USB cable or serial cable, or however it’s connected.”

IP can eliminate that box. “We’re not sending video over IP, decompressing video and then recompressing it,” Brown said. “We’re just sending data, and the rendering is done by the PC that is inside the monitor itself. It means that we’re sending tiny bits of data. Even if you have a relatively slow internet speed, you can send data. It also means that those on-camera prompter screens can be anywhere.”

BRIDGING STANDARDS

Mike Burdick, sales manager at Mirror Image in Oshkosh, Wis., said that as prompter users have been updating the PCs that drive their prompting systems, they’re finding those PCs don’t have analog VGA ports, but digital HDMI ports instead. It’s part of an overall studio infrastructure trend.

“As the majority of cameras and studios are being upgraded and updated, or built from scratch, they are going to more of the digital formats that are sweeping through the industry right now,” Burdick said. “At the larger studios, SDI is common with the cameras, so it’s easy to kind of loop everything together through camera and feed the teleprompter.”

As customers upgrade their prompting monitors, they aren’t always ready to move to digital, according to Burdick. “Everything from our lower entry-level equipment, up to the full-sized studio equipment that utilize a monitor from 12-inch to 19-inch size has both HDMI and SDI as well as the more traditional VGA and composite inputs,” he said. “We’ve just had a handful of our customers in the past month here that have upgraded just the monitor on their older teleprompters so they could retrofit into the new studio.” When they do upgrade their prompting PCs, it’s just a matter of changing out the cabling.

SMART[PHONE] PROMPTING

Josh Apter, founder and CEO of Padcaster in New York, said that while his company’s DSLR-compatible smartphone-based prompter is convenient for professional production use, his company originally discovered a large market for a sub-$100 Parrot Prompter in schools.

“There were so many schools doing student broadcasts, morning announcements and things, and they were using a piece of paper that had them looking off to the side, or looking down at something,” he said. “That obviously works, but when you give them something like our prompter that’s so easy to use, it changes the entire thing.”

Instead of something bulky and hard to configure, the Parrot Prompter is a bundled kit which easily screws onto the lens threading, allowing the user to attach a smartphone to the assembly.

The Parrot Teleprompter includes Bluetooth remote and comes with 12 different-sized mounting rings comprising the most common lens diameters, 37mm–82mm, as well as a cleaning kit.

In the works is a Parrot prompter that doesn’t require lens threads for mounting.

LONDON—Autocue is dishing out its QStart teleprompter software to anyone who wants it. The company announced that the Windows/OS QStart software is now available for free to all users, with or without hardware.

QStart is downloadable software that can be used offline. Based on the QMaster software, QStart features multi-language text and menus, and icon-based action buttons. Scripts can be imported from .doc, .rtf, and .txt files. Script makers and assignable hot keys are also available.

To download the free version of QStart, click here.

Autocue is a Vitec Videocom brand.