Just dropped in to say that, after wrestling with my display for WEEKS, this tutorial was hands-down the godsend I needed to solve this issue. THANK you!
I totally needed this video. Thank you so much for making it. I'm not sure if it was due to my incompetence or not, but after I broke down and finally upgraded to the purchased (non-trial) version of the software, and went through your instructions for the 4th time it finally worked. And it worked perfectly!
Thanks for the update. I had watched the first video and I could never find the flip setting - got it now after this one.Will be using my iPad Pro in a 14 inch prompter setup. I can over lay the prompter text over a live video feed as well.
@@SelfEmploymentSidekick Thanks for sharing info about it. In my region (central Europe) there are only 2 high value videos about this app (including yours), after typing in "BetterDisplay " into the search bar. Good luck, my friend!
Hey David, Thank you for doing this tutorial. This is super helpful. Is it possible to use the iPad not as a separate display but to show the same image as on the main display, but flipped for teleprompter use? Would love to see a tutorial on this as well or short instructions. Thanks!
You're welcome, Josef! I THINK you can do what you're trying to do. After you get your virtual display set up, go to your Mac's display settings, select the virtual screen and change is from "Use as... Extended Display" to "Use as... Mirror for [your main display name]" The only issue I encountered is that the aspect ratio likely won't be the same on both your main display and your iPad, so things are going to look a bit off. And I tried to adjust the aspect ratio of the virtual display after the fact, but it made my computer do weird things. So you can at least get CLOSE. But I'll have to keep poking around and see if I can change the resolution without glitching.
@@SelfEmploymentSidekick The last time I used a teleprompter was in 2005! I have thought of it as an option for some dialogue pieces but nothing specific in the works yet. Thank you for the reply.
This video saved me after a few hours of trying to figure this out. HUGE APPRECIATION for this video. thanks. Question: I'm using Duet to mirror my iphone for the teleprompter, and I wish to MIRROR my mac main display, but in FLIPPED view. Any tips on how I can do this? Big thanks once again.
Hey, I poked around a little bit, but I don't use Duet, so I'm not positive what the solution is. Perhaps play around with Mac display settings, choose to mirror your primary display to a new virtual display, and flip that? Let me know if you figure it out!
Found this, great thank you. I can not tell you how useful this video is to me. Love it. You mention having a dedicated small monitor, do you have any recommendations? i think I will get a small monitor, but I'm not sure which would work best? I am using Lensio as my teleprompter so the dedicated monitor would need to be quite small?
I'm glad the video was helpful. I don't have any monitor recommendations that I've personally tested (I did try one a while ago, but couldn't get it to work properly). I would say, if you're considering a dedicated monitor set up, you might want to look at the Elgato Prompter that was just released. It looks slick, simple, and doesn't cost too much more than buying a new teleprompter kit and monitor.
Thanks for the update on the last video. Really helpful solution. I´m actual using a Ipad Pro 12,9 with a Neewer Teleprompter (for keeping eyecontact) combined with Sidecar and Better Display as Pro Version. The sidecar view is streamed to a virtual display and flipped, adapted resolution for better readability. During several Mircosoft Team videomeetings it´s showed multiple times a issue with freezing video signal while audio continued. I use a wired connection with my Mac Studio as you recommended. It´s really annoying during business team videomeetings if the screen freezes. Maybe it´s a Microsoft Teams problem, but i can´t figure it out/reproduce it
I'll experience freezing like this as well sometimes. I can't tell if it's an issue on the BetterDisplay side or with Sidecar. I'm leaning towards Sidecar, because that's dropped out or frozen on me before when BD wasn't active.
@@SelfEmploymentSidekick Thanks for the answer, :-) I struggle now with another issue/challenge: in between i use a external usb-c display wired to the mac. Bought Better Display after the trial period and use it to stream the display to a virtual one. Mirroring it for readability. But now there is this strange behaviour: everytime i click on the main displays background, the choosed settings like mirroring the display seem to get deactivated and i fight with side-reversed settings for my mouse on the virtual screen. If i open Better Display and choose "stream virtual screen" again the pre choosed settings like mirrored view work and i can move the mouse in the natural flow on the screen of the physical usb-c display.. Don´t get it why this happens. A hassle free user experience is different :-) Edit: actually it seems to work after deactivating "keyboard control affects this display", "ddc control" "software based video adjustments" in the main display menu window
Glad to hear you're getting closer to a more consistent experience. That's the "fun" thing with trying to properly configure software across multiple devices.
Great video! Not sure if you could help me with this app, I'm currently not understanding how to change the input in the software for my external monitor, any help would be much appreciated 🙂 P.S. physical buttons are boken so it would be the only way for me to switch from HDMI to DisplayPort :S
Thanks! Hmmm... So to make sure I'm understanding your issue correctly, your monitor buttons are broken, so you have no way of switching inputs on the monitor itself? I'm not positive if this works (I've only ever tested one input for my monitor), but when you click the BetterDisplay icon in the tool bar, you should see a list of your available displays. Click on your external monitor to expand all of the settings, and then click "DDC Input Source." That should allow you to switch between HDMI, DP and any other available inputs. Let me know if that works!
Thanks for the video. Even if I follow your steps one by one, where it stops working for me is when I try to stream the contents of the virtual display to the sidecar display. It simply won't let me select the "Sidecar Display" under "Stream Virtual Screen". I can mirror it, but not stream it. Not sure why that is, as this seems to work for you without any problems. But in the end, this prevents me from being able to mirror/flip my screen.
Hmmm, sorry you're having issues getting this to work. Double check that 1) you are still connected to Sidecar (it has a tendency to drop out sometimes, especially if you're connected wirelessly), and 2) you are clicking "Stream Display" under the Teleprompter/Virtual display settings and not the Sidecar Display settings. What options do you see under "Stream the contents of this display to:"?
Oh my ... I found the issue. It's rather embarrassing, as I sat there for 2 hours trying to figure it out yesterday. The software needed a full restart as I went straight from installing the software to testing and apparently, the OS permissions only took effect, after restarting BetterDisplay. Bonk. Thank you for your help though. @@SelfEmploymentSidekick
I haven't tested this myself, but I believe you should be able to do this. Create your virtual display, associate it with your connected monitor, and mirror flip it in the stream settings (same as I demonstrate in the video). Let me know if you get it to work!
How did your display name suddenly change to "Sidecar Display?" Should mine also change, or did you do that manually? When I get to 5:00, and try to set the virtual display to my iPad (not called Sidecar Display), it simply won't connect. Any ideas?
Jason, sorry you're having trouble. A couple things to check: After you connect your iPad to your Mac, check under your Mac's Display Settings and ensure the iPad is set to "Use as... Extended Display" (not "Default Display" or "Mirror"). Between the native display settings and the BetterDisplay settings, there's a lot of little configurations to get everything working properly - I'm watching back through my video to see if I missed any steps. I honestly don't remember if I manually renamed the display or if that was the default. There have been a few minor software updates since I posted the video that may have affected that; I'm not positive.
First of all, thanks for watching! Secondly, make sure you are changing the settings for the new virtual display you created and not for the Sidecar Display. Thirdly, if you need any help troubleshooting, feel free to reach out and book a call on my website!
I glimpsed at Duet (and Luna Display), and they look nice. But I really only needed something to flip the screen. Sidecar already does 90% of what I needed; BetterDisplay gets me across the finish line (and without paying a subscription). Duet definitely is worth considering if you don't have a Sidecar-compatible device, or if you want to take advantage of some of its other features.
Sidecar isn't an option when connecting. i see it on the ipad, but not an option on the BetterDisplay when connecting. Thus doesn't work. And I bought pro version.
Hmmm... It's hard to know for sure what the issue is without digging a bit more. Just to confirm, your iPad is connected to your computer via Sidecar, but you are not seeing it as an available target for your Virtual Display in the BetterDisplay settings?
Yes, you can continue to use BetterDisplay, but the pro features will be deactivated. Brightness control and a ton of other features will still be available in the free version.
@@SelfEmploymentSidekick Yes, I don't own any Apple products. I have a Samsung tablet and use Windows on my PC. Thank you for responding. I'm not sure there are any options for what I'm looking to do. I would like to use my tablet as a camera monitor and then be able to flip the output to use in a teleprompter. I'm looking for a way to do this without using a computer, because I will not be near a computer when filming.
Gotcha. So you're not mirroring content from a computer to your tablet. We just need to mirror-flip the tablet display, correct? If you are using this simply as a traditional teleprompter (for reading a script) there are dedicated teleprompter apps that will mirror flip the and auto-scroll the text. Here are some options: bit.ly/teleprompterapps If you're using it for a different use case and need the entire display mirror-flipped... I dunno, I'll poke around and let you know if I find anything.
Purchased the full version and followed the steps you are showing but when I try to select Stream Virtual screen to the iPad it is not able to be selected. Have you seen this before?
Hmmm.... Sometimes Sidecar can be fickle. Are you seeing your iPad connected under your Mac's display settings? Also, under the main BetterDisplay settings, do you see your iPad (or Sidecar Display) as listed display?
@SelfEmploymentSidekick yes, I see it. In betterdisplay the sidecar name keeps changing to names in different languages, but no matter what when I select Stream Virtual screen nothing is selected. 😢
Oh that's strange. I'm not sure what's going on. Sounds like there might be an issue with Sidecar. Is the Sidecar Display showing up in different languages in your Mac's native display settings as well? And is your OS up to date on all devices? Just some basic troubleshooting I'd try before reaching out directly to BetterDisplay's devs. I hope you get it figured out!
I think when you say mirror display, you mean the text isn't flipped to be readable in the glass reflection, right? You can see the screen on the teleprompter, but the text is not readable. How can this be resolved? My telepromoter just have a glass display, usually text or letters are reflected on a glass in a reverse unreadable format, I hope you understand what I'm saying. So I able to do the regular mirror to iPad, but my issue, if I reflect it on a glass, text won't be readable
Yes, that's the problem that I was able to solve by using Better Display. There is a setting that allows you to mirror flip/reverse the content on your iPad, so when it's reflected in the teleprompter you are able to read it.
@@SelfEmploymentSidekick could you please tell me how to do it because I followed the steps there but I couldn’t achieve it, you mentioning some naming conventions there. That’s not there for me. However I followed it as per my MacBook and iPad names. I see three displays 1. My Mac Pro 2. Virtual display and 3. iPad. It works as as a side additional screen, it completely mirror MacBook exactly looking like Mac pro on iPad however I’m not getting the mirror flipping of letters and content of Mac Pro screen to be reflected on my teleprompters glass display. You are also not showing the end result on iPad so that I can confirm if we both of us are expecting the same output or not. I wish I could talk to you, I’m located in NJ
@@SelfEmploymentSidekick I tried it several time, it has mirror of Mac, it can extend MacBook screen but not giving mirror flip option. I got this based on your RUclips video, but I'm not able to achieve mirror flip but mirroring of MacBook screen is possible.
One thing to check is that your Mac display settings have your iPad/Sidecar display set to "Use as a separate display." If it's set to "Mirror" it won't work correctly. If you need some additional help, maybe we can troubleshoot this over a video call. You can grab a spot on my calendar at selfemploymentsidekick.com
@@SelfEmploymentSidekick I made a small payment and registered with your website, now I'm in total confusion, not sure if it works, so please let me know whether we can talk. I installed it only because you said it works, so please let me know, hope you have my email
Just dropped in to say that, after wrestling with my display for WEEKS, this tutorial was hands-down the godsend I needed to solve this issue. THANK you!
Great to hear! I'm glad the video helped you figure our what needed figuring out :-)
Thank you! Your video was the only resource I could find that helped me get this to work!
You are welcome! I’m glad it was helpful!
Thank you!!! No more need for the Decimator to flip the image :) Great video dude.
You're welcome, Troy! I've benefited from a lot of your Mavericks content, so I'm glad I could return the favor in some small way :-)
I totally needed this video. Thank you so much for making it.
I'm not sure if it was due to my incompetence or not, but after I broke down and finally upgraded to the purchased (non-trial) version of the software, and went through your instructions for the 4th time it finally worked. And it worked perfectly!
Hey! I'm glad the video was helpful 🙂
This is incredibly helpful. Thank you for doing this.
You're welcome!
Thanks for the update. I had watched the first video and I could never find the flip setting - got it now after this one.Will be using my iPad Pro in a 14 inch prompter setup. I can over lay the prompter text over a live video feed as well.
You're welcome! Glad it helped and you got everything figured out.
This app is especially game changer in regards to the scaling for any other screen that is non retina. Love it!
I found it originally just to handle the teleprompter issue, but I know there's a lot more to it. I'll have to play around with it a bit more!
@@SelfEmploymentSidekick Thanks for sharing info about it. In my region (central Europe) there are only 2 high value videos about this app (including yours), after typing in "BetterDisplay " into the search bar. Good luck, my friend!
I tried this three times, even deleted and reinstalled the software. I never could get the iPad to flip.
Hey David, Thank you for doing this tutorial. This is super helpful. Is it possible to use the iPad not as a separate display but to show the same image as on the main display, but flipped for teleprompter use? Would love to see a tutorial on this as well or short instructions. Thanks!
You're welcome, Josef! I THINK you can do what you're trying to do. After you get your virtual display set up, go to your Mac's display settings, select the virtual screen and change is from "Use as... Extended Display" to "Use as... Mirror for [your main display name]"
The only issue I encountered is that the aspect ratio likely won't be the same on both your main display and your iPad, so things are going to look a bit off. And I tried to adjust the aspect ratio of the virtual display after the fact, but it made my computer do weird things. So you can at least get CLOSE. But I'll have to keep poking around and see if I can change the resolution without glitching.
Thanks for revisiting this tech-technique!
You're welcome, Tony! Are you thinking of working a teleprompter into your set up?
@@SelfEmploymentSidekick The last time I used a teleprompter was in 2005! I have thought of it as an option for some dialogue pieces but nothing specific in the works yet. Thank you for the reply.
This video saved me after a few hours of trying to figure this out. HUGE APPRECIATION for this video. thanks.
Question: I'm using Duet to mirror my iphone for the teleprompter, and I wish to MIRROR my mac main display, but in FLIPPED view. Any tips on how I can do this? Big thanks once again.
Hey, I poked around a little bit, but I don't use Duet, so I'm not positive what the solution is. Perhaps play around with Mac display settings, choose to mirror your primary display to a new virtual display, and flip that? Let me know if you figure it out!
Found this, great thank you. I can not tell you how useful this video is to me. Love it. You mention having a dedicated small monitor, do you have any recommendations? i think I will get a small monitor, but I'm not sure which would work best? I am using Lensio as my teleprompter so the dedicated monitor would need to be quite small?
I'm glad the video was helpful. I don't have any monitor recommendations that I've personally tested (I did try one a while ago, but couldn't get it to work properly). I would say, if you're considering a dedicated monitor set up, you might want to look at the Elgato Prompter that was just released. It looks slick, simple, and doesn't cost too much more than buying a new teleprompter kit and monitor.
Thanks for the update on the last video. Really helpful solution. I´m actual using a Ipad Pro 12,9 with a Neewer Teleprompter (for keeping eyecontact) combined with Sidecar and Better Display as Pro Version. The sidecar view is streamed to a virtual display and flipped, adapted resolution for better readability.
During several Mircosoft Team videomeetings it´s showed multiple times a issue with freezing video signal while audio continued. I use a wired connection with my Mac Studio as you recommended. It´s really annoying during business team videomeetings if the screen freezes. Maybe it´s a Microsoft Teams problem, but i can´t figure it out/reproduce it
I'll experience freezing like this as well sometimes. I can't tell if it's an issue on the BetterDisplay side or with Sidecar. I'm leaning towards Sidecar, because that's dropped out or frozen on me before when BD wasn't active.
@@SelfEmploymentSidekick Thanks for the answer, :-) I struggle now with another issue/challenge: in between i use a external usb-c display wired to the mac. Bought Better Display after the trial period and use it to stream the display to a virtual one. Mirroring it for readability. But now there is this strange behaviour: everytime i click on the main displays background, the choosed settings like mirroring the display seem to get deactivated and i fight with side-reversed settings for my mouse on the virtual screen.
If i open Better Display and choose "stream virtual screen" again the pre choosed settings like mirrored view work and i can move the mouse in the natural flow on the screen of the physical usb-c display.. Don´t get it why this happens. A hassle free user experience is different :-)
Edit: actually it seems to work after deactivating "keyboard control affects this display", "ddc control" "software based video adjustments" in the main display menu window
Glad to hear you're getting closer to a more consistent experience. That's the "fun" thing with trying to properly configure software across multiple devices.
Great video! Not sure if you could help me with this app, I'm currently not understanding how to change the input in the software for my external monitor, any help would be much appreciated 🙂
P.S. physical buttons are boken so it would be the only way for me to switch from HDMI to DisplayPort :S
Thanks!
Hmmm... So to make sure I'm understanding your issue correctly, your monitor buttons are broken, so you have no way of switching inputs on the monitor itself?
I'm not positive if this works (I've only ever tested one input for my monitor), but when you click the BetterDisplay icon in the tool bar, you should see a list of your available displays. Click on your external monitor to expand all of the settings, and then click "DDC Input Source." That should allow you to switch between HDMI, DP and any other available inputs.
Let me know if that works!
Thanks for the video. Even if I follow your steps one by one, where it stops working for me is when I try to stream the contents of the virtual display to the sidecar display. It simply won't let me select the "Sidecar Display" under "Stream Virtual Screen". I can mirror it, but not stream it. Not sure why that is, as this seems to work for you without any problems. But in the end, this prevents me from being able to mirror/flip my screen.
Hmmm, sorry you're having issues getting this to work. Double check that 1) you are still connected to Sidecar (it has a tendency to drop out sometimes, especially if you're connected wirelessly), and 2) you are clicking "Stream Display" under the Teleprompter/Virtual display settings and not the Sidecar Display settings.
What options do you see under "Stream the contents of this display to:"?
Oh my ... I found the issue. It's rather embarrassing, as I sat there for 2 hours trying to figure it out yesterday.
The software needed a full restart as I went straight from installing the software to testing and apparently, the OS permissions only took effect, after restarting BetterDisplay.
Bonk.
Thank you for your help though.
@@SelfEmploymentSidekick
Huzzah! Glad you figured out the issue!
The nice thing about "oh, duh!" problems, is they're usually easy to solve :-)
Can I use the mirror flip option on hardwired connected hdmi monitor?
I haven't tested this myself, but I believe you should be able to do this. Create your virtual display, associate it with your connected monitor, and mirror flip it in the stream settings (same as I demonstrate in the video). Let me know if you get it to work!
How did your display name suddenly change to "Sidecar Display?" Should mine also change, or did you do that manually? When I get to 5:00, and try to set the virtual display to my iPad (not called Sidecar Display), it simply won't connect. Any ideas?
Jason, sorry you're having trouble.
A couple things to check: After you connect your iPad to your Mac, check under your Mac's Display Settings and ensure the iPad is set to "Use as... Extended Display" (not "Default Display" or "Mirror").
Between the native display settings and the BetterDisplay settings, there's a lot of little configurations to get everything working properly - I'm watching back through my video to see if I missed any steps. I honestly don't remember if I manually renamed the display or if that was the default. There have been a few minor software updates since I posted the video that may have affected that; I'm not positive.
only thing I could do with this app is dim my ipad.... i think i need serious help. no matter how many times i press flip, it wont do anything
First of all, thanks for watching! Secondly, make sure you are changing the settings for the new virtual display you created and not for the Sidecar Display. Thirdly, if you need any help troubleshooting, feel free to reach out and book a call on my website!
I do not see the app for my ipad in the App Store
There is no iPad app. BetterDisplay runs on your desktop (and Sidecar is a native feature built into iPad and Macs).
Too complex imo, the Duet app is super simple and works perfectly. Wireless and with an USB-c cable.
I glimpsed at Duet (and Luna Display), and they look nice. But I really only needed something to flip the screen. Sidecar already does 90% of what I needed; BetterDisplay gets me across the finish line (and without paying a subscription). Duet definitely is worth considering if you don't have a Sidecar-compatible device, or if you want to take advantage of some of its other features.
Sidecar isn't an option when connecting. i see it on the ipad, but not an option on the BetterDisplay when connecting. Thus doesn't work. And I bought pro version.
Hmmm... It's hard to know for sure what the issue is without digging a bit more. Just to confirm, your iPad is connected to your computer via Sidecar, but you are not seeing it as an available target for your Virtual Display in the BetterDisplay settings?
after the 14 days trials end, will I be able to use it? or I will have to buy it?
known that I only need it to use the free features only like adjust brightness and the other ones.
Yes, you can continue to use BetterDisplay, but the pro features will be deactivated. Brightness control and a ton of other features will still be available in the free version.
@@SelfEmploymentSidekick thank you so much, really appreciate your fast response, wish you all the best
You are welcome! Glad I could help.
Hello! I'm not a Apple user... are there any options like this for android?
As in, using an Android tablet instead of an iPad? I'm sure there is something out there. Are you using a PC or a Mac?
@@SelfEmploymentSidekick Yes, I don't own any Apple products. I have a Samsung tablet and use Windows on my PC. Thank you for responding. I'm not sure there are any options for what I'm looking to do. I would like to use my tablet as a camera monitor and then be able to flip the output to use in a teleprompter. I'm looking for a way to do this without using a computer, because I will not be near a computer when filming.
Gotcha. So you're not mirroring content from a computer to your tablet. We just need to mirror-flip the tablet display, correct? If you are using this simply as a traditional teleprompter (for reading a script) there are dedicated teleprompter apps that will mirror flip the and auto-scroll the text. Here are some options: bit.ly/teleprompterapps
If you're using it for a different use case and need the entire display mirror-flipped... I dunno, I'll poke around and let you know if I find anything.
Purchased the full version and followed the steps you are showing but when I try to select Stream Virtual screen to the iPad it is not able to be selected. Have you seen this before?
Hmmm.... Sometimes Sidecar can be fickle. Are you seeing your iPad connected under your Mac's display settings? Also, under the main BetterDisplay settings, do you see your iPad (or Sidecar Display) as listed display?
@SelfEmploymentSidekick yes, I see it. In betterdisplay the sidecar name keeps changing to names in different languages, but no matter what when I select Stream Virtual screen nothing is selected. 😢
Oh that's strange. I'm not sure what's going on. Sounds like there might be an issue with Sidecar. Is the Sidecar Display showing up in different languages in your Mac's native display settings as well? And is your OS up to date on all devices? Just some basic troubleshooting I'd try before reaching out directly to BetterDisplay's devs. I hope you get it figured out!
Finally figured it out... Found that the permission for screen record was off, toggled it on and it works. Thanks for your videos.
Awesome! Glad you got it figured out.
I think when you say mirror display, you mean the text isn't flipped to be readable in the glass reflection, right? You can see the screen on the teleprompter, but the text is not readable. How can this be resolved? My telepromoter just have a glass display, usually text or letters are reflected on a glass in a reverse unreadable format, I hope you understand what I'm saying. So I able to do the regular mirror to iPad, but my issue, if I reflect it on a glass, text won't be readable
Yes, that's the problem that I was able to solve by using Better Display. There is a setting that allows you to mirror flip/reverse the content on your iPad, so when it's reflected in the teleprompter you are able to read it.
@@SelfEmploymentSidekick could you please tell me how to do it because I followed the steps there but I couldn’t achieve it, you mentioning some naming conventions there. That’s not there for me. However I followed it as per my MacBook and iPad names. I see three displays 1. My Mac Pro 2. Virtual display and 3. iPad. It works as as a side additional screen, it completely mirror MacBook exactly looking like Mac pro on iPad however I’m not getting the mirror flipping of letters and content of Mac Pro screen to be reflected on my teleprompters glass display. You are also not showing the end result on iPad so that I can confirm if we both of us are expecting the same output or not. I wish I could talk to you, I’m located in NJ
@@SelfEmploymentSidekick I tried it several time, it has mirror of Mac, it can extend MacBook screen but not giving mirror flip option. I got this based on your RUclips video, but I'm not able to achieve mirror flip but mirroring of MacBook screen is possible.
One thing to check is that your Mac display settings have your iPad/Sidecar display set to "Use as a separate display." If it's set to "Mirror" it won't work correctly. If you need some additional help, maybe we can troubleshoot this over a video call. You can grab a spot on my calendar at selfemploymentsidekick.com
@@SelfEmploymentSidekick I made a small payment and registered with your website, now I'm in total confusion, not sure if it works, so please let me know whether we can talk. I installed it only because you said it works, so please let me know, hope you have my email
This app is very buggy as far as I can tell. When sending the virtual screen to sidecar I am getting an infinite loop.
Yeah, you need to be careful with how you set your sources and targets. I've accidentally created loops before too.