Need some music for a film project? Finding your production budget a bit short? No problem. Just visit musopen.com and solve your problem. Musopen is an online repository of free, royalty-free, public domain music. It’s mostly classical pieces performed by university orchestras, but by and large the quality is excellent. All you need to do […]
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DMS Help: Getting Started in Adobe?
Just getting started with using Adobe’s creative suite? Always wanted to learn Photoshop? Here’s a way you can get some lessons for free. Around the time Adobe released CS3 there was a huge boom in tutorials on the internet aimed at Adobe beginners. One site, TechTutor TV is still up and running. While the tutorials […]
Continue readingDMS Help: Media Services Serves Up Math Help. O rly??
Ok, so math tutorials are not really DMS Help, but this particular website certainly is worth knowing about for a couple of reasons. For those who don’t know, Salman Khan is the MIT-educated creator of the not-for-profit educational website Khan Academy. Salman, or “Sal” as he likes to be called, began developing video tutorials to […]
Continue readingTodd’s Tips: External Hard Drive Suddenly Not-Writeable on a Mac?
This is a problem that comes up in the DMS from time to time. Patrons come in and say, “I’ve been using this external hard drive on a mac for a long time and suddenly it won’t work; I can’t put files on it.” My first question is always the same: “Did you use it […]
Continue readingTodd’s Tips: Choosing an External Hard Drive
It seems like choosing an external hard drive would be little more than a question of price. But this is far from the case. There are a number of important considerations one needs to take into account when choosing an external hard drive. 1) Purpose – The answer to “why do I need an external […]
Continue readingInteractive Media: iPhone Development – Updates
Since my last post on this topic a few things have changed. Some good, some not so much… Let’s get the bad news out of the way first. The new iOS SDK is no longer free. That’s right, XCode 4 now costs $5.00 on the AppStore. Oh, and it only runs on Snow Leopard. There […]
Continue readingAdobe Acrobat Pro is available in Media Services!
Adobe Acrobat Pro 9 is indeed available here in Media Services. It can be found on four of our Macs in the Digital Media Studio: DMS workstations 5 – 8. It can also be found for PC next door to Media Services in the Library’s E-Classroom at the standing scan scanner station in corner. Feel […]
Continue readingMultimedia Resources @ AU
Whether you are putting together a slide presentation, creating a video assignment, or working on your film thesis, there are a host of resources available at AU to both students and faculty. Unfortunately these are scattered all over campus – in the Library, in the New Media Center, in the School of Communication. Until now […]
Continue readingDreamweaver CS5 Tutorial: How to Design a Website
Although we always recommend you use lynda.com when you may have questions on Digital Media Studio software, here is a tutorial for Dreamweaver CS5 on how to design a website.
Continue readingDreamweaver CS4 Tutorial: How to Design a Website
Although we always recommend you use lynda.com when you may have questions on Digital Media Studio software, here is a tutorial for Dreamweaver CS4 on how to design a website.
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