Open the prompter on the right screen, every time.

Setup is where the evening goes

Most of the time lost in a solo session is not lost in the takes. It is lost in the small fixes around them: the window on the wrong screen, the settings panel you need to close, the app you have to bring forward to press start. Each one is a trip back to the keyboard, and every trip costs you a take.

The fix is boring and it works: decide where everything goes once, and make the app remember it.

Which screen the prompter picks

When you press Open prompter, Mirrento opens the script full screen on a second display. Which one it picks:

• The screen you chose, if you picked one with Show on Display and it is connected.
• Otherwise, automatic: a screen at the size of a prompter monitor (1024 by 600) if one is connected, else the smallest screen that is not your main one. A small prompter monitor under the lens is usually exactly that.
• No second screen at all: Mirrento asks whether to open the prompter in a window on the screen you have. To move that window, hold Command and drag it. To resize it, hold Command and drag a corner. Without Command, a stray click cannot move it.

Tell it once with Show on Display

If automatic picks wrong, or you have several screens, choose the one yourself. Show on Display is in the Mirrento menu bar icon, in the Dock menu and in the app's Prompter menu. It lists every screen your Mac sees, by name, plus Automatic. Pick one and the prompter opens there now, and again next time, as long as that screen is connected. Unplug it and Mirrento goes back to automatic until it comes back. Choose Automatic to forget the choice.

Run it from the menu bar

During a session you rarely need the whole Mirrento window. What you need is in the Mirrento icon in the menu bar:

• Show Prompter / Hide Prompter opens or closes the prompter on its screen.
• Start / Pause starts or pauses the scroll. With Voice follow on, your voice moves the text instead.
• Show Overlay / Hide Overlay opens the script as a see-through overlay over your other apps instead.
• Visible in Screen Share lets the prompter and the overlay show in screen shares and recordings, for a demo. It is off by default, the menu bar icon turns red while it is on, and it switches itself off the next time Mirrento starts.
• Show on Display picks the screen the prompter opens on.

The same items are in the Dock menu: right-click the Mirrento icon in the Dock. That menu also opens Settings, which have their own window (⌘,). And you can close the main Mirrento window without quitting: the app keeps running, the menu bar icon stays, and a click on the Dock icon brings the window back. One exception: if you use Mirrento's own Record audio, keep the window open, because that recording runs in it and stops when the window closes.

So the screen you record in front of can stay clean. The script on the prompter, your recording app in front, and Mirrento in a corner of the menu bar.

Set the screen up once

A prompter screen sits in a strange place: under a lens, behind glass, sometimes in a dark room. The Display settings are there to match it, and they stay set:

• Eye line. Moves the reading line up or down so it sits right under the camera. This is the single most useful setting for keeping eye contact.
• Margins. Narrow the column from the left and right, so your eyes travel less across each line.
• Text size and line height. Bigger text if you sit further back, which is also the cheapest eye-contact fix there is.
• Brightness. Dim the prompter for low-light recording, so the screen does not light your face.
• Theme. Dark or light.
• Mirror (for beam splitter). Flips the text left to right, for prompter glass that reflects the screen.

The same panel has Behind the text, if you want your camera under the script to check your framing. Unlike the settings above, the camera starts off every time you open the app.

Hardware you already have

You do not need prompter hardware to start. A spare monitor under the camera, or the laptop screen itself, is enough for most solo work. If you do own a prompter with its own screen, such as an Elgato prompter, Mirrento treats it like any other screen your Mac can see: it shows up in Show on Display.

And if your scripts already live in Elgato Camera Hub, Settings has an Import from Elgato Camera Hub button that copies them into your Mirrento scripts folder, so you do not start from an empty library.

If the first ten minutes of every session go to dragging windows, the 7-day trial is enough to set the prompter up once and see whether it is still where you left it the next day.