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Printing
Printing a Booklet from InDesign Black & White, Color Printing Plotter Printing
Video
Introduction to iMovie Backing up iMovie Files Upload Videos from a Video Camera on Mac Introduction to Premiere Pro CC (2017.1) Introduction to Final Cut Pro X Advanced Final Cut Pro X Final Cut Pro X - Backing Up Files Final Cut Pro X: Control playback quality and performance Create Subtitle in Final Cut Pro X Tips and Tricks for Recording Video Interviews Creating and Adding Subtitles to Videos Chroma Keying with iMovie and Final Cut Pro X Making a Video from Start to Finish How to make a digital story Resources to Create 3 Minutes Video Video Formats Guide Multimedia File Formats
Audio
Intro to GarageBand Using Audacity to Record Audio in DMC Audio Studio Using Audacity to Record/Edit Audio Using Audacity for Noise Removal Using Camtasia 2
Graphics
Introduction to Adobe Lightroom - workshop handout Introduction to Illustrator - workshop handout Illustrator Advanced - workshop handout Illustrator - Creating Promo Flyer - workshop handout InDesign Tutorial Introduction to InDesign - workshop handout InDesign Advanced - workshop handout Blender - Creating a 3D model in Blender - workshop handout Blender - Animate Blood Cells in Blender - workshop handout Creating a Poster with InDesign - workshop handout Introduction to Photoshop Photomerge with Photoshop Fixing and Enhancing Images with Photoshop Using Wacom Intuos4 Digital Pen Tablet with Paintbrush Poster Creation Guides Creating an Action for Batch Processing in Photoshop
Scanning
Using the DocuMate 152 Scanner Scanning to PDF with Flatbread Scanner Scanning using Epson GT-15000
Creating Electronic Text & Others
Adobe Acrobat & PDF Scanning Documents To PDF Transcribing With Express Scribe Scanning Book Chapters, Magazines and more to PDF OCR a PDF Document with Adobe Acrobat Pro X Adding Text to a PDF File
Research
Using Zotero to Manage Your Reference Data Introduction to EndNote Introduction to Data Visualization Introduction to Data Visualization and Infographics Handout Presentation Datavisualization.ch Selected Tools http://selection.datavisualization.ch/ Check a work for color blind visibility http://vischeck.com/ Data visualization: A view of every Points of View column http://blogs.nature.com/methagora/2013/07/data-visualization-points-of-view.html Visualizing Small Sets of Data with Excel and Google Chart Introduction to Tableau Public Presentation Slides Handout Workshop data files DMC equipment circulation date file SF airbnb listing World indicators Link to the published DMC Equipment Circulation Data Viz Tableau II: Intermediate Handout Workshop data files part 1 Workshop data files part 2 Link to the published viz Tableau Learning Resources Creating Digital Illustrations for Your Research Presentation I Presentation II Workshop I Workshop II Best strategies for using cameras in archives and then processing the images taken A Quick Guide on Using SnapStream Using Juxtapose for Before/After Image Comparisons
MS Office Applications
How to Create a Whiteboard Animation Video in PowerPoint Using PowerPoint Effectively in Your Presentation How to Animate and Record Audio in Microsoft PowerPoint 2011 Creating a Poster in PowerPoint workshop presentation file workshop handout Creating a Single Page Flyer in PowerPoint on PC Creating a Single Page Flyer in PowerPoint on Mac Creating a Pecha Kucha Presentation Using PowerPoint Presentation Handout Introduction to DMC in Pecha Kucha format Excel Excel Guide Excel 101 Workshop Handout Excel Advanced Charts

Station Guides
All Stations Photomerge with Photoshop Convert DVD to Digital Files Station 5 - Station 8 - Digitizing Audio Cassette Tapes Station 9 (Viewing Station): Station 7, 8, 11, 13, 14, 16, 17 Stations 10-14 and 16 - Scanning into PDF with Flatbed Scanner Station 11- Scanning Document with Epson V600 Scanning Image/Document with Epson V700 Scanning Slides with Epson V700 Station 13 - Using the DocuMate 152 Scanner Using the Epson Perfection GT-15000 Station 16 - Using the DocuMate 162
Equipment
DMC Equipment: Recording Interviews, Lectures, Music Performance, or for Auditions with the DMC Equipment DMC Equipment: Canon XA10 audio set-up when recording a lecture or an interview DMC Equipment: Zoom H4N Audio Recorder Guides DMC Equipment - Tips for Using Blue/Green Screen Tips and Tricks for Video Recording Mounting SideArm onto Manfrotto Tripod
Web & Photography
Creating a Web Site Using CampusPress Export CampusPress Website and Beyond Photography Photographing Fragile or Old Books Videography Studio Interview Setup Tips for Portrait Photography in Photo/Video Studio
Motion Tracking
Motion Tracking Guide Using After Effects Basic Motion Tracking Guide Using Matlab - accompanying Matlab file
3D and VR
P repping 3D Models for VR and Rhino 3D to game engine tips
Sources for Free Media
Creative Commons Search - search media that is licensed under Creative Commons. Creative Commons licenses allow that material to be shared and reused under terms that are flexible and legally sound. There are six CC licenses. Noun Project, https://thenounproject.com/. A fantastic resources to find icons related to the concepts you need to visualize in your infographic design. Most of the icons are free for use under CC. (Credit example, for instance, Created by author first name, author last name from Noun Project). WikiMedia Commons - an online host site for Creative Commons images, sounds, and other media. Google Images , Settings -> Advanced Search, usage rights -> free to use or share. Richard Harrington's Blog - a list of free images websites. digCCmixter Music Discovery - Large library of CC music. Need to copy+paste credits for most. Jamendo - (Not free, licensing starts at $5) Incompetech - large library of CC music. Only requirement is that you copy+paste the credits into your work! https://unsplash.com/ Beautiful, free photos. Gifted by the world’s most generous community of photographers. Penn State's Media Commons Free Media Library Sound effects resources from the School of Visual Arts in New York City http://sva.libguides.com/soundeffects Images in the public domain for which there is no fee or licensing: Government photos: State and federal images are in public domain and are free to use. One way to locate them is through Flickr. Flickr -> Search -> Licenses -> U.S. Government Works Library of Congress: A great source of images. Many images are in the public domain. http://www.loc.gov/pictures/collections/ Publicdomainpictures.net http://publicdomainpictures.net The photo archive at Gimp-Savvy.com http://gimp-savvy.com/PHOTO-ARCHIVE/ If the work was published in the U.S. before January 1, 1923, you are free to use it in the U.S. without permission. - See more at: http://fairuse.stanford.edu/overview/public-domain/welcome/#sthash.aUAdGZLx.dpuf Available to the Rice Community via Artstor, a database that Fondren library subscribes to Artstor Digital Library ( http://library.artstor.org/ ) which has subsets of thousands of images that are "free" and can be used for publication either under a license for "Images for Academic Publishing Program (IAP)" or Commons Zero (CC0) license. How to find and use these images, http://artstor.libguides.com/c.php?g=691624&p=4995787 . Rice specific images you can also use media from the following sites as long as you attribute to the original source. For instance, put “photos - courtesy of Rice University” in the credits of your video. Rice Image Library http://www.rice.edu/imagelibrary/ University Archives and Rice History http://scholarship.rice.edu/handle/1911/64041 Fair Use FAQ http://cmsimpact.org/resource/fair-use-frequently-asked-questions/ Examples of Successful Fair Use http://cmsimpact.org/resource/examples-of-successful-fair-use-in-documentary-film/ Attribution Best Practices http://guides.lib.uci.edu/art/art_attribution How to Spot Fake Stock Photos (and Attribute the Right Person) https://www.howtogeek.com/329357/how-to-spot-fake-stock-photos-and-attribute-the-right-person/
Others
Multimedia Literacy by University of Delaware Library http://guides.lib.udel.edu/c.php?g=85590&p=2569206 Resources on Creating a Whiteboard Animation Creating Animations with Adobe Flash Screen Capture Software Media Release Forms media-release-presenter-Rice.pdf media-release-director-Rice.docx Sample media release forms from other organizations Click Release forms for documentary productions, then go http://kino-eye.com/download/David-Tames-Release-Forms.pdf http://www.artsandbusinessphila.org/pvla/documents/Documentaries.pdf
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