Monthly Archives: November 2010

A Primer on Scratch Disks in Final Cut Pro

By faber | Published: November 30, 2010

Written by MPS Consultant Andrew O’Rourke – for more help with this topic, visit Andrew at the MPS during his scheduled hours, visible on our Live Schedule. What is a scratch disk? A scratch disk is where Final Cut stores all the assets and generated content for a project.  You can spread different asset classes across multiple [...]

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Extracting Audio From a Video Clip in iMovie

By faber | Published: November 18, 2010

Written by MPS Consultant Laura Gauch – for more help with this topic, visit Laura at the MPS during her scheduled hours, visible on our Live Schedule. When making a movie, you often want to have audio from one clip play during video from another clip, or make a clip silent, or otherwise manipulate audio and video [...]

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Feedback Request: MPS Patron Survey

By faber | Published: November 16, 2010

We have a very short survey that we are asking patrons to fill out to help us collect some quantitative data about our lab and our services.  By completing our 2-minute survey, you’ll be providing us with some invaluable information that we can take to our MPS Steering Committee at the end of the semester [...]

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Stitching a Panorama in Photoshop CS5

By faber | Published: November 16, 2010

Written by MPS Consultant Nick Sarnoff – for more help with this topic, visit Nick at the MPS during his scheduled hours, visible on our Live Schedule. In this tutorial we will show you how to quickly create a seamless panorama image by stitching several photos together using the Photomerge tool in Photoshop CS5 which is available [...]

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Ripping DVDs with HandBrake

By faber | Published: November 15, 2010

Disclaimer: Before you even think about ripping a DVD, you need to ask yourself whether or not doing so would be a violation of copyright.  There are plenty of fair use cases for ripping a DVD, but if you are unsure whether or not your particular case is within the confines of the law, you [...]

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Creating a Merged PDF

By faber | Published: November 12, 2010

Written by MPS Consultant Shayna Pekala – for more help with this topic, visit Shayna at the MPS during her scheduled hours, visible on our Live Schedule. So, you have a bunch of related files on your computer and you want to combine them into one nice PDF, but how? Depending on the type of files you [...]

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MPS Open Forum – Monday Nov. 15

By faber | Published: November 11, 2010

We’ll be holding an Open Forum on November 15th, at 3pm in Perkins 217 to solicit comments and suggestions from our patrons and colleagues.  We’ll take a few minutes to present some of the changes that we’ve put into place with the new MPS Service Model, but the majority of the time will be spent [...]

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PC to Mac External Hard Drive Formatting

By faber | Published: November 10, 2010

Written by MPS Consultant Sarah Goetz – for more help with this topic, visit Sarah at the MPS during her scheduled hours, visible on our Live Schedule. If you doing major media editing, chances are you have an external hard drive from a variety of popular sources such as Western Digital, La Cie, and Other World Computing. [...]

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MPS Feedback: Open Forum & Survey

By faber | Published: November 9, 2010

We’ll be holding an Open Forum on November 15th, at 3pm in Perkins 217 to solicit comments and suggestions from our patrons and colleagues.  We’ll take a few minutes to present some of the changes that we’ve put into place with the new MPS Service Model, but the majority of the time will be spent [...]

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Doyald Young on lynda.com

By faber | Published: November 8, 2010

If you are even remotely interested in either logotype design, lettering, watching a true master at their craft, or charming & humble old men, take the next forty minutes or so to watch the Creative Inspirations video at lynda.com on Doyald Young (after signing in to lynda.com via this page, you can find the video here). [...]

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  • New MPS West Now Open!

    The new MPS in 006 Bostock is officially open! Come see us in our new location near the Link in the lower level of Bostock.

    The Old Chem branch of the Multimedia Project Studio is now permanently closed.

  • What is the MPS?

    The Multimedia Project Studios are a series of high-end computer labs located at Duke University. We feature cutting edge equipment and industry standard software and are staffed by a corps of student Multimedia Consultants who are available to help you out with your project on a one-on-one basis, but are not able to do production work on your behalf.
    MPS Lab Locations & Hours
    MPS East
    115 Lilly Library
    The MPS in Lilly is open whenever the library is open. Check their site for hours, which can change during holidays and academic breaks.

    MPS West
    006 Bostock
    The MPS in Bostock is open whenever the library is open. Check their site for hours, which can change during holidays and academic breaks.



    Staffed Hours for Both Locations

    Winter, summer, and other break hours will vary, according to student consultant availability. To check consultants' availability, view our Live Schedule.

    Sunday - Thursday: noon to midnight
    Friday: noon to six
    Be sure to check our Live Schedule to see who will be on staff and our staff page to meet our talented consultants.