Settings that affect the prompter and Prompt mode.
Operator screen:
Prompt in a window: Windowed prompting tries to maintain the same window position and size in both Edit and Prompt mode. This is useful for streaming, dual-screen prompting, and single-monitor webcasts. It's also good if you need to interact with another app, position the window in a specific location (like under a webcam), or use a specific window size (usually for streaming).
Options: An options control appears next to “Prompt in a window” when it is selected. “Zoom on window change” zooms the window to make it as large as possible for Prompt mode (as if the green + button was clicked) and restores your old position and size upon entering Edit mode. “Cover the Desktop” places a black background over your Desktop and disables things like Option-Tab app switching, kind of like a soft-Full screen mode. “Cover the Desktop” is useful for streaming scenarios and other situations where you may want to hide background clutter while having the flexibility of a Window. Note that this option is not available for macOS 10.6 “Snow Leopard” users.
Full screen: The operator screen is covered by the prompter. The app will run “locked down” and disallow things like Option-Tab to switch apps. This option is good if you use System Video Mirroring (the System preference option to Mirror displays, not mirror enclosures) to make your output display identical to your main display.
Override Notes: When using dual-screen prompting (i.e., the Preview window has “Use second display” turned on), the app may override these preferences to keep the prompter size identical on both displays. If you want to ensure Windowed prompting is used, run the second display at a smaller resolution or the main display at a higher resolution.
Positioning Notes: If the operator's prompter changes size (if its window resizes or if it prompts Full screen), it looks at the top-most line of text in Edit mode and tries to keep this as the top-most line of text (or focus arrow position) in Prompt mode.
Use second display:
Talent position syncs to operator position: The talent screen prompter will sync its position to the operator's prompter position when entering Prompt mode. The positioning note above applies to this option.
Operator position syncs to talent position: The operator's prompter position matches the talent's prompter position when entering Prompt mode.
Content matching:
Show prompter in Edit mode: When the focus arrow, time bar, and margin options are enabled, they also appear in documents in Edit mode. This can also be toggled on a per-window basis under the Prompter menu. This allows you to more easily match line-endings and keep content in a mostly-consistent place when changing modes. For full consistency, you also need to enable the option below.
Show bookmarks in Prompt mode: Bookmarks normally hide in Prompt mode, which can slightly shift content when changing modes. This option keeps bookmarks visible in Prompt mode which prevents the slight content shift, although it may not always be acceptable to run. This requires an app restart to take effect.
Other settings:
Toolbar: Sets the state of the toolbar in Prompt mode. By default, it matches its visibility in Edit mode. In some cases, you may want to always show or always hide it. For example, as you become more familiar with Hot keys you may want to hide the toolbar in Prompt mode. If you use System Video Mirroring it would also makes sense to hide the toolbar in Prompt mode so your talent does not see a toolbar.
Show scroll bar: Always show the scroll bar in Prompt mode. If you use System Video Mirroring you probably want to turn this off so your talent does not see a scroll bar.
Reset elapsed timer: Resets the elapsed timer every time Prompt mode is entered.