A YouTuber workflow on a Mac: script, framing and screenshots
A video workflow on a Mac with NotchStar has four small jobs: check the frame in Mirror, read the script from the Teleprompter, collect stills in the Screenshot Tray, and free space with Disk. NotchStar does none of the recording or editing. It handles the fiddly parts around them.
Before you record
- Open Mirror and check the shot: the face level, the light in front, nothing in the background you did not intend. The preview is a live view of the default camera, flipped like a mirror. Leave the tab so the camera is free.
- Open Teleprompter, press the pencil, paste the script and press the check.
- Press play for a few lines, set the speed to your natural reading pace and the text to a size you can read from your seat.
- Press back to start, then Keep open so the notch stays when your pointer moves to your recorder.
While recording
Start your recorder, press play on the Teleprompter and speak. If you stumble, press pause, take a breath and press play to continue from where it stopped. The prompter does not wait for your voice, so give yourself a short lead in. A recording of the camera shows only what the lens sees. A screen recording can include the notch area, since NotchStar does not hide itself, so check a sample. Details are in the screen sharing page.
Stills and references
When you need stills, such as a frame from a video you are reviewing or a page you want to cite, take the screenshot with the macOS shortcut. The thumbnail appears under the notch. Drag it into your notes, your editing project or a message to a collaborator. Command click to pick a few and drag them together. They stay for five minutes, up to 12, and the files remain where macOS saved them, so move the ones you want into a project folder.
Space
Footage fills a disk fast. The Disk tab ranks your folders by size under Space, finds duplicate files, and can compress photos over 2 MB and videos over 50 MB. Compression is lossy and replaces the file with a smaller one while the original goes to the Trash. Never compress your masters.
What this setup does not do
- No voice following and no hidden prompter. See the notch teleprompter comparison for apps that do both, with prices as of 4 November 2026.
- No camera picker in Mirror. If you use an external camera, check it in your recorder.
- No microphone check.
- One script at a time, in plain text.
The Teleprompter page, Mirror page and Screenshot Tray page list every control. For a shorter version of the recording steps, see recording a video while reading a script.
