Filters are available on the iOS, macOS and Android versions. There are no filters in the web browser version.
One thing to clear up first, because it changes how you should plan a shoot: filters are not applied live while the camera is rolling. They are not on the recording screen at all. You add them afterwards, on the video preview screen you land on once a take is recorded, using the Filters button.
Two kinds of filter are available there:
- Colour looks change the overall grade of the picture — warmer, cooler, more contrast, more muted.
- Skin smoothing, or beauty, filters soften blemishes, redness and shadows under the eyes.
How to apply a filter
- Open the Teleprompter.com app
- Go to the Scripts panel and tap the script you want to use
- Tap the button in the top right corner, switch to video recording mode, then record your take as you normally would
- When you finish, you arrive at the video preview screen
- Tap Filters
- Choose the filter you want — a colour look, or skin smoothing
- Set the strength using the control in the same place you picked the filter, so the effect is as subtle or as strong as you want it
- Watch the preview while you adjust, then carry on with the rest of your edit or export the video
Why applying them afterwards helps
Because nothing is committed at capture time, you are not gambling on a look before you have seen the footage. You can try a few, dial the strength up and down against the take you actually got, and change your mind without setting up and performing the whole thing again. If the skin smoothing reads as too strong on a big screen, that is an adjustment rather than a reshoot.
It also means the recording itself is captured clean. If you want that untouched source file — to grade it elsewhere, or to hand it to an editor — see Where Do I Find the Original, Unedited Recording?.
When to use them, and when not to
Filters are a good fit for quick social clips, one-off updates, and anything where speed matters more than a perfect finish. They save you a round trip through an editor.
For work where colour has to be exact — a client deliverable, a launch video, a series that has to match shot to shot — grade in a dedicated tool instead. Either way, a filter cannot rescue bad light, so get your lighting right first, then set and lock your exposure so the brightness stays steady through the whole take: see How Can I Change the Exposure on Teleprompter.com?. A clean, correctly exposed file gives whoever grades it, even if that is you next week, far more room to work.
Grading elsewhere does not mean leaving the app behind. Once your colour is finished, you can bring the file back in and still add subtitles, clean the audio or drop on a watermark — see How Can I Import a Video into the Teleprompter.com App?.
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