The Preview window shows how your content will appear in Prompt mode and provides common teleprompter features that affect it. The settings include dual-screen functionality and flipping the image on the second display. Choose
to show the Preview window.The preview image is affected by the teleprompter features in the Preview window (like the Focus arrow, Timer, and margins) and your preferences (mainly those in Prompter Preferences).
For example, if your Prompter Preferences use “Prompt in a window”, the preview image adjusts if your document window resizes to accommodate the available space for line wrapping as it will appear when you enter Prompt mode. If you choose to hide or show the toolbar, this also affects the visible area for the preview image. If your Prompter Preferences use “Full screen”, the preview image uses your main screen size and ignores the current window size (since the window will resize to cover the full screen in Prompt mode), and reflects every other setting you would see in Prompt mode.
If a second display is connected and the “Use second display” checkbox in the Preview window is enabled, the preview image always shows the second display without flipping applied so you can follow along.
The preview image is interactive. You can perform minor adjustments by clicking and dragging the Focus arrow, clicking the elapsed Timer to toggle it to remaining, and scrolling over the image to position it. Some controls in the preview image have contextual menus for additional customization. Additionally, many feature controls within the Preview window have matching arrow menus beside them that provide the same options.
When “Use second display” is turned on, the preview image and second display automatically track edits as you make them to help coordinate edits with the talent. Edit tracking can be turned off or on with the “Second display tracks edits” checkbox in the General Preferences.
If “Use second display” is disabled, the message at bottom of the Preview window indicates action required to enable it (optionally presenting a one-click button to fix the issue). More about this.
Preview window features are described more in depth on their own help pages: