Monthly Archives: February 2011

Extracting an audio file from a video clip in Quicktime Player

By faber | Published: February 22, 2011

Written by MPS Consultant Tim Yoon – for more help with this topic, visit Tim at the MPS during his scheduled hours, visible on our Live Schedule. Let’s say you’ve taken some great documentary footage and want to listen to those interviews as audio files. How would you go about extracting the audio from a video clip [...]

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Creative Commons Resources

By faber | Published: February 17, 2011

Written by MPS Consultant Alex Klein – for more help with this topic, visit Alex at the MPS during his scheduled hours, visible on our Live Schedule. When you are working on a project in the Multimedia Project Studio or elsewhere, chances are you are using audio, video, or images. If you played the guitar, shot [...]

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Content Aware Fill in Photoshop CS5

By faber | Published: February 13, 2011

Written by MPS Consultant Andrew Wood – for more help with this topic, visit Andrew at the MPS during his scheduled hours, visible on our Live Schedule. One of the most exciting features new to Photoshop CS5 is Content Aware. Before its existence, a skilled user in Photoshop would be able to reproduce its effects [...]

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Using Free CSS Templates in Dreamweaver – Screencast

By faber | Published: February 9, 2011

Written by MPS Consultant JP Cafaro – for more help with this topic, visit JP at the MPS during his scheduled hours, visible on our Live Schedule.  We’re new to the whole screencast thing, so apologies if you have trouble understanding or following along.  A list of bullet points below will hopefully help you stay with us.

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MPS End of Semester Report for Fall ’10

By faber | Published: February 8, 2011

At the end of each semester, I’ll be putting together an end of semester report that gathers data from all the various sources that we can and attempts to put that into some kind of intelligible form.  We use these reports to make recommendations for future changes to the lab, as well as documenting success [...]

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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.