The Digital Media Center
Welcome to the Digital Media Center
The Digital Media Center (DMC), part of the Fondren Library, provides Rice students, faculty, and staff access to equipment, software, and expertise for creating or using digital media.
Contact Information:
| Phone: |
713-348-3635 | Mailing address: |
Digital Media Center |
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| Fax: |
713-348-2577 |
P.O. Box 1892, MS 280 | ||
| Email: | dmc-info@rice.edu |
Houston, TX 77251-1892 | ||
| Listserv: |
DMC-L |
Campus address: | Herring Hall 129 |
Click HERE for our hours. Click here to see a Quicktime VR panorama of the DMC.
News
• View the winning short films in the First Annual Rice Student Film Competition.
• Check out projects recently done at the DMC, including Tommy Fu's Microfinance video and Anish Patel and Faheem Ahmed's entry for MTV-U's Oscar correspondent contest.
• Sign up for one of our summer short courses, with free hands-on courses on video editing, managing citations using Zotero, and more.
Services
At the DMC, you may:
- • Scan slides, film, images (up to 11.4" x 17"), and documents
- • Manipulate photos with Photoshop and create graphics with Illustrator
- • Dub miniDV tape or VHS tape to DVD with our dual decks
- • Capture footage on miniDV tape, VHS tape, or DVD to computer and edit with FCP/iMovie
- • Convert LP or audio cassette to music CD
- • Compose and edit music
- • Record narration or make a podcast in our sound editing booth
- • Create your own DVD-video
- • Duplicate DVDs or CDs (up to 25 copies at a time)
- • Create animations with Flash
- • Author web pages with Dreamweaver or iWeb
- • Receive informal, hands-on training. (Appointments are recommended and may be made by calling 713-348-3635, emailing dmc-info@rice.edu, or filling out our online form.)
- • Check out equipment for free, including a digital camera, digital
camcorder, audio recorder, microphone, or tripod. Please note that you
must supply your own recording media (e.g. miniDV tape, DVD, etc).
• Use one of the DMC's multimedia CD-ROMs, electronic texts, or linguistic corpora.
To learn more, see About the DMC.
The DMC also offers a pleasant environment for studying and working on group projects. Our second floor features lots of windows, lounge seating, a collaboration area with a 50 inch plasma display, and study tables; wireless networking is available throughout the facility.
To hear what users have to say about DMC, watch this movie:
For assistance with getting access to an online resource, please see Access to Electronic Resources or contact Fondren's reference department at 713-348-5113.
