This time of year a lot of faculty offer their students the option to create a website instead of writing a final paper. But creating a website from scratch can be a very daunting task for the uninitiated. All that code. All those pages. One way to get around this it to use Google Sites […]
Continue readingDMS Help – Adobe TV Brings You the Newest and Best of Adobe
It can be hard to keep up with all of Adobe’s product updates and new version features. But now you can. Adobe TV has a myriad of videos that will keep you up-to-date on your Adobe products. But that’s not all. There are also a number of tutorials on how to use all of the […]
Continue readingAwesome Media Services news of the High Definition kind…
So we have now upgraded all our viewing rooms to accommodate Blu-ray DVDs. The Media Classroom (Which professors can reserve here.) and Room 10 both have a JVC Blu-ray player(Which also play PAL and other region DVDs) and Room 11 has a Sony Blu-ray player(Which cannot play PAL and other region DVDs). Check them out […]
Continue readingRemembering Dino De Laurentiis (August 8, 1919 – November 10, 2010)
Oscar-winning Italian film producer Dino De Laurentiis, a master movie showman who brought some 500 films to the big screen including “La Strada,” “Serpico,” and “Three Days of the Condor,” has died at age 91. Read more here. Here are some of his films from the Media Services Home Use Collection: Hannibal – HU DVD […]
Continue readingDMS Help – Action Script 3.0 Tutorials for Flash
One of the most difficult things about using Flash can be adding interactivity. Animation is easy, more so in Flash than After Effects. But when it comes in interactivity in Flash users often find themselves quickly mired in Action Script. Adobe’s latest iteration of Action Script, 3.0, is nearly a misnomer. Gone are the days […]
Continue readingTodd’s Tips – Learn to Shoot Good Video
Have you ever felt like this when you finish a video? Felt like you’re carrying the corpse of your dead idea? Editing can obviously be a big part of making a good video, but before you ever even get to the editing suite, there’s a lot you can do to make your video amazing. You […]
Continue readingDMS Help – iMovie ’09 Tutorials from Apple
As we add iMovie ‘o9 to our repertoire of software in the Digital Media Studio it becomes clear that we have a serious lack of tutorials available for iMovie ’09. So here are some, direct from the source. Check out these video tutorials from Apple on using iMovie ’09.
Continue readingTodd’s Tips – iTunes: Learn Anything, the Digital Way
I think it’s time we take a slight digression from media-related posts and take a broader view of the world. When I was last applying for jobs I was asked in an interview how I learned so many programming languages. (I am fluent in Action Script 3.0, Java, C, C++, Objective C, Python, PHP, HTML, […]
Continue readingDMS Help – iLife Fun with Alex: iMovie 09 Tutorials
While we here in Media Services encourage the use of iMovie HD (’06) due to its simplified workflow, we will soon be adding iMovie ’09 to our repertoire, though we will also hold on to iMovie HD for those of you purists out there. We are making this addition so that we will have the […]
Continue readingNew Home Use Titles!
Cowboy and the Lady – HU DVD 7501Real Glory – HU DVD 7502Vera Cruz – HU DVD 7503Winning of Barbara Worth – HU DVD 7504Men – HU DVD 7505Bollywood Hollywood – HU DVD 7506Avatar: The Last Airbender Book 1, Vol. 1-6 – HU DVD 7601-7606 Yoo hoo, Mrs. Goldberg – HU DVD 7620 The Bigamist […]
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