Media Computers

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VCU Libraries is providing multimedia sampling stations to enhance digital access to our collections and to support new media technologies in research and instruction.  The VCU community can now use digital collections and digitized sounds, video clips, images, and text to enhance their learning and teaching!  Printer Friendly PDF of this list.

Scanning

Scan images, slides, negatives, transparencies and text. Save as digital images, pdfs, documents and other formats.

 

PC Scanning Station #1

PC Scanning Station #2

  • Adobe Photoshop CS2
  • ScanSoft OmniPage Pro 14.0
  • Adobe Acrobat 8.0 Professional
  • Nero Express 7 CD/DVD burning software
  • Pentium level PC, 19" Monitor
  • CD-R / CD-RW drive
  • Portable DVD-R/RW drive available for check-out
  • Novell Network Login / Secure Shell / WinZip
  • Epson GT30000 large format flatbed scanner
    • with automatic document feeder (ADF)
  • Adobe Photoshop CS2
  • ScanSoft OmniPage Pro 14.0
  • Adobe Acrobat 8.0 Professional
  • Nero Express 7 CD/DVD burning software
  • Pentium level PC, 19" Monitor
  • CD-R / CD-RW drive
  • Portable DVD-R/RW drive available for check-out
  • Novell Network Login / Secure Shell / WinZip
  • Epson GT 15000 flatbed scanner
  • Mikrotek ArtixScan 4000tf 35mm slide scanner
PC Scanning Station #3
 
  • Adobe Photoshop CS2
  • ScanSoft OmniPage Pro 15.0
  • Adobe Acrobat 8.0 Professional
  • Nero Express 7 CD/DVD burning software
  • Pentium level PC, 19" Monitor
  • CD-R / CD-RW drive
  • Portable DVD-R/RW drive available for check-out
  • Novell Network Login / Secure Shell / WinZip
  • Epson GT30000 large format flatbed scanner
    • with automatic document feeder (ADF)
 

Mac G5 Scanning Station

Audio

Capture from phonograph, cassette, digital audio tape and other formats.  Save as digital audio files or burn to audio CD.

PC Audio Capturing Station #1

PC Audio Capturing Station #2

  • Sound Forge 8.0
  • Creative Labs Audigy2 ZS Card with connections to
    • Audio cassette deck
    • DAT deck
    • Phonograph Turntable (33.3 - 78 rpm)
  • Nero Express 7 CD/DVD burning software
  • CD-R/RW / DVD-R/RW drive
  • CD-ROM drive
  • Network Login / Secure Shell / WinZip
  • Pentium level PC -19" Monitor
  • Sound Forge 8.0
  • Creative Labs Audigy2 ZS Card with external inputs
    • RCA Stereo
    • SPDIF
    • Midi
    • Optical
    • Firewire
  • Nero Express 7 CD/DVD burning software
  • CD-R/RW / DVD-R/RW drive
  • CD-ROM drive
  • Network Login / Secure Shell / WinZip
  • Xeon level PC -19" Monitor

          PC Audio Capturing Station #3

 

 

Video

Capture from VHS, DVD, camcorder and other formats.  Export as analog or digital video, save as digital video files or burn to DVD.

PC Video Capturing Station #1

PC Video Capturing Station #2

Apple G5 Video Capturing Station

Screenplay Station

  • Applied Magic ScreenPlay 2.7
  • 300gb hard drive
  • RCA, S-Video and Firewire Input/Output
  • VHS Videocassette Player/Recorders (input and output)

Peripherals

Additional accessories available for 4-hour checkout

  • Stereo Headphones
  • 250m Portable Zip drive
  • Portable DVD/CD RW drive
  • 9 in 1 Media card reader
  • Wireless cards
  • Network cables
  • RCA, S-Video, Firewire, and USB cables and adapters
  • VHS-C to VHS adapters
  • Slide and film holders for transparency scanners