Preview, then show
Type the line. Preview puts it on your own miniature of the output. Show sends it to the real screen. It stays up until you clear it. Nothing flashes at the room by accident.
Presenter timer · confidence monitor
A stage timer the presenter can read, and a message only they see.
Put the countdown on the confidence monitor. Keep the controls on the show caller desk. When it is time, send Wrap up — preview it first, so the audience’s screen never becomes your comms channel. Included with the show caller in Pro, £8 a month.
- Countdown and clock
- Preview, then show
- Any screen with a browser
The screen at the lip of the stage
One clock, two places
Open the talent output in its own window and drag it to the confidence monitor, the return on the lectern, or a laptop in the wings. Full screen hides the browser. The show caller keeps play, pause, reset and the message box on the rundown.
The countdown is the main number, or the time of day is, or they share the screen. You set the points where it turns yellow and red — five minutes and two minutes, or whatever this room needs. The presenter does not need a card from the prompt corner to know which one it is.
Presets are 5, 10, 15, 20 and 30 minutes. Cue copies the length of the row you have selected. Nudge adds or takes away one minute or five while they are speaking. Lock to cue means that when you advance, the timer reloads to the time left on the new cue instead of running on from the last one.
Messages
Talk to the presenter on the timer, not across the room
The output is the one screen the audience is not watching. Use it.
Phrases you will actually send
Wrap up. 30 seconds. Last question. Stand by. Or a sentence of your own: the next speaker is late, the clicker is on the stool, take a breath. Make the letters larger if the monitor is far from the lectern.
The time does not disappear
While the message is up, the countdown and the clock sit in the corner, still in the warning colour. They are not covered by a slide and they are not a second app someone has to keep in front.
Not a timer on its own
The countdown is attached to the show you are calling
A kitchen timer and a presenter clock do one job. This one sits on the timed sheet: a run of show on stage, a rundown in broadcast. The cue lengths, the show time and the show caller controls are the same page, so the person running the clock is looking at the cue they are timing. The crew show doc is still there for the contacts and the venue, on its own link.
There is no second subscription for the timer. ShowRun — the sheet, the caller and the timer — is in Pro at £8 a month, and in Team at £5 per user a month with a minimum of two seats. Free is the show doc only.
FAQ
Questions
Open the talent output from the rundown and put that window on the presenter screen: a confidence monitor, a lectern laptop, or any display with a browser. Press F or F11 for full screen. You keep the controls on the show caller desk.
Yes. The message is drawn on the timer output, which faces the presenter. Write a line or use Wrap up, 30 seconds, Last question or Stand by. Preview it on your desk, then show it. Make the type larger or smaller. Clear it when they have seen it.
It can. Lock to cue reloads the timer to the new cue’s remaining time when you advance. You can also prefill the duration from the selected cue, or set 5, 10, 15, 20 or 30 minutes. Nudge adds or removes one minute or five.
Yes. Show the countdown, the time of day, or both. Choose which one is large. Yellow and red marks are the thresholds you set, so the presenter sees the colour change without a card from the wings.
No. The stage timer and presenter messages are part of ShowRun, included in Pro at £8 a month and Team at £5 per user a month (minimum 2). They sit on the same rundown as the show caller. Free includes the crew show doc and does not include ShowRun.
Stop waving from the wings.
The presenter sees the time and your message. You see the rundown. Pro is £8 a month.
Start Pro — £8/month