DMC Guides Home

• Upload Videos from a Video Camera on Mac

• Tips and Tricks for Recording Video Interviews

• Making a Video from Start to Finish

• How to make a digital story

• Videography Studio Interview Setup

• Introduction to iMovie

• Backing up iMovie Files

• Introduction to Premiere Pro CC (2017.1) - workshop handout
  
• Advanced Premiere Pro CC (2017.1) - workshop handout
• 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

• Creating and Adding Subtitles to Videos

• Chroma Keying with iMovie and Final Cut Pro X

• Resources to Create 3 Minutes Video

• Video Formats Guide
• Multimedia File Formats

• Photography
• Tips for Portrait Photography in Photo/Video Studio
• Introduction to Adobe Lightroom Classic CC - workshop handout
• Photographing Fragile or Old Books

• Using GarageBand to Record/Edit Audio
• Using Audacity to Record/Edit Audio
• Using Camtasia 2

• Introduction to Illustrator - workshop handout
• Illustrator Advanced - workshop handout
• Illustrator - Creating Promo Flyer - workshop handout
  
• 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

• Poster Creation Guides

• Using the DocuMate 152 Scanner
• Scanning to PDF with Flatbed Scanner
• Scanning using Epson GT-15000

• 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

• 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

• • Check a work for color blind visibility

• • Data Visualization: A View of Every Points of View Column

• 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
    • Sample-Superstore
  • Link to the published DMC Equipment Circulation Data Viz
• Tableau II: Intermediate
  • Handout
  • Workshop data files
  • 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
• Using Juxtapose for Before/After Image Comparisons

• 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

• Printing a Booklet from InDesign
• Black & White, Color Printing
• Plotter Printing

• All Stations:
  • Photomerge with Photoshop
• Station 3:
  • Convert DVD to Digital Files
• Station 7,8:
  • Using the DocuMate 162

• Station 8:
  
  • Digitizing Audio Cassette Tapes

• Station 10, 11:

  • Scanning Document with Epson V600 
• Station 12:
  • Scanning Image/Document with Epson V700
  • Scanning Slides with Epson V700
• Station 13:
  • Using the Epson Perfection GT-15000  

• Audio Equipment Q&A
• Photography Equipment Q&A
• Video Equipment Q&A
• 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: Using Canon Vixia R700/R800 for Basic Recording
• DMC Equipment: Zoom H4N Audio Recorder Guides
  • Using Zoom H4N for Audio Interview Recording
• DMC Equipment: Tips for Using Blue/Green Screen
• DMC Equipment: Mounting SideArm onto Manfrotto Tripod
• DMC Audio Studio Guide

• Creating a Web Site Using CampusPress

• Export CampusPress Website and Beyond

• Motion Tracking Guide Using After Effects
• Basic Motion Tracking Guide Using Matlab - accompanying Matlab file

• Prepping 3D Models for VR and Rhino 3D to game engine tips

• 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: 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

• YouTube Audio Library

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.
• Publicdomainpictures.net
• The photo archive at Gimp-Savvy.com
• 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

Available to the Rice Community via Artstor, a database that Fondren library subscribes to

• Artstor Digital Library: 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

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
• University Archives and Rice History

Fair Use FAQ

Examples of Successful Fair Use

Attribution Best Practices 

How to Spot Fake Stock Photos (and Attribute the Right Person)

• Multimedia Literacy by University of Delaware Library
• 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
    
    • Kino-Eye David Tames Release Form
• Software Installed on Rice Classroom Podium and Computer Lab PCs
  • Adobe Creative Cloud 2018 is available on the computers at the Fondren first floor.