Rushworks has released RUSHPROMPTER™, a Windows-based teleprompting software solution available as a stand-alone download from its website (www.RUSHWORKS.tv), or integrated with VNEWS, the company’s TV news production hardware/software system.

Rush Beesley, Rushworks founder and president, revealed details of the launch from company headquarters in Flower Mound, Texas. “There are a lot of prompter systems out there,” said Beesley, “but we wanted to create one with a design driven by our company Mission: Keeping It Super Simple. KISS.”

“Most people don’t realize that what we call ‘teleprompting’ was first done using long rolls of white paper on which people either hand-wrote the text or used giant typewriters developed specifically for creating extra-large type. Someone just cranked the paper under a black and white camera which displayed on a TV monitor,’ he reflected. “It was simple, but effective.”

Rushprompter features include RTF and TXT creation, export and import, find and replace, real-time font size adjustment, variable line spacing, and individual character control of bold, italics, underline, colorize, and highlighting.

RUSHWORKS has also created a lightweight prompting stand that supports one or two 12” 16:9 monitors for displaying the prompter text as well as any video switcher Program output.