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Humanities Resource Center
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Can I get help scanning my materials? How do I transfer my VHS tape to DVD? How do I make stills from a frame in a movie? What's behind the seven deadly sins? Does the HRC have a lost-and-found?
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Q: Can I get help scanning my materials?A: Yes. Go to the Mac Scanning Workstations on the east side of the HRC. Choose the scanner you want and follow the instructions on the paper which is tagged on the scanner. If you have any questions about scanning, just ask at the front desk. The HRC lab assistants are trained to help with all the equiptment in the lab. Q: How do I transfer my VHS tape to DVD? A: This is a two step process. Step one is to play the video and "record" it into the computer using iMovie. Once you have done this, you can edit the video, add titles, slides and audio if you wish. Once you have something you like, you start the iDVD software and burn your DVD. You must use DVD-R discs for this. The first copy will take up to three times the length of your video but subsequent copies take only about 15 minutes each. More information on iMovie is available here and iDVD, here. A: Open your document as usual, select print from the File menu and select the color printer from the list at the top of the print window, then you must release the document at the release station before it will print. Please do not use the color printer if you do not have to. Click here to see the photo of our printers. Q: Does the HRC have a lost-and-found? A: Yes, please describe your lost item to the student at the front desk and they will check the lost and found for you. Q: How do I make stills from a frame in a movie? A: In one of the digital editing rooms, caputre the section of the movie around the frame you want using iMovie. Find the exact frame you want by scrubbing to the area and using the arrow keys to find the frame . Select "Save Frame As ... " from the Edit menu, name it and save. or Open the film with VLC, find the frame you want, then hit command + shift + 4. This will turn your mouse cursor into a cross-hairs. Click and drag the cursor over the image you want to capture and let go, the image will them be automatically be saved to the desktop. Q: What's behind the seven deadly sins? The student-named seven project rooms on the west side of the HRC contain the following equipment: (Click here to see more information about these nice rooms. )
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