Monthly Archives: April 2011

Recording & Exporting Audio in Pro Tools in the MPS Soundbooth

By faber | Published: April 30, 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. Today we will be diving into the basics of recording audio from a microphone using Pro Tools LE 8. We will be covering how to set up and [...]

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How to Author a DVD with iDVD

By faber | Published: April 29, 2011

Once you’ve finished your amazing movie project, the final step is to show it off to someone else. iDVD can let you create a finished-looking DVD, playable on any computer or DVD player, and easy to share.

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Using AutoTune for Good and Evil in Garageband

By faber | Published: April 28, 2011

Written by MPS Consultant Stephen Zhu – for more help with this topic, visit Stephen at the MPS during his scheduled hours, visible on our Live Schedule. Ahh Autotune.  Popularly known today as the T-Pain effect, Autotune is a program [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autotune] that can alter the pitch of singers through a wide variety of settings.  Because [...]

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Happy Last Day of Classes!

By faber | Published: April 27, 2011

Enjoy LDOC, Duke. Also, enjoy this gorgeous video shot on a GoPro camera.  We have several of these available through the Duke Digital Initiative, so if anyone is planning on doing some skydiving anytime soon, come check one out and make your own – Experience Human Flight from Betty Wants In on Vimeo.

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Using CSS to eliminate your HTML headache

By faber | Published: April 27, 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. For those of you with some familiarity with HTML, you’ve probably heard of CSS.  CSS stands for Cascading Style Sheets, and they can make your HTML-coded website much, [...]

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Using Compressor to Export Video Files from Final Cut Pro

By faber | Published: April 19, 2011

Written by MPS Consultant Kevin Wu – for more help with this topic, visit Kevin at the MPS during his scheduled hours, visible on our Live Schedule. Now that you’ve finished editing your video in Final Cut Pro, you might wonder what might be the best way to export your video. A lot of people [...]

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Split Screen in Final Cut

By faber | Published: April 15, 2011

Written by MPS Consultant Erica Duh – for more help with this topic, visit Erica at the MPS during her scheduled hours, visible on our Live Schedule. If you have ever seen split screen projects completed in Final Cut Pro you know it’s a great way to format any montage video projects into something more [...]

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Import videos into iMovie, on an iPad

By faber | Published: April 14, 2011

Written by MPS Consultant Mike Cappetto – for more help with this topic, visit Mike at the MPS during his scheduled hours, visible on our Live Schedule. One of the greatest new additions to the iPad 2 is Apple’s one and only iMovie. The ability to edit on a touch screen will revolutionize how movies [...]

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Adding Muzzle Shot effects in AfterEffects

By faber | Published: April 12, 2011

Written by MPS Consultant Mike Kuo – for more help with this topic, visit Mike at the MPS during his scheduled hours, visible on our Live Schedule. Want high action scenes in your movie?  Have a low budget?  Maybe if you equip yourself with a couple of “hand” guns*, you’d be able to put some action into [...]

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CSS 3 New & Popular Features Overview

By faber | Published: April 5, 2011

Written by MPS Consultant Xing Su – for more help with this topic, visit Xing at the MPS during his scheduled hours, visible on our Live Schedule. Though drafted and published as early as 1999, CSS 3 did not get widely adapted or fully supported by most browsers until recently. Here I want to introduce some [...]

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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.