TechInfo

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1. Insert a burnable DVD into the DVD drive on the Mac. (If you’re working on a Mac in the Mac Lab in Memorial Library, the DVD drive is on the side of the “monitor”. If you’re working in the multimedia rooms in Memorial Library, the DVD drive is in the computer tower on your desk, next to your monitor). You can purchase DVD-R (“R” means recordable) at any office supply store. I recommend the DVD-R instead of +R or RW

2. Once you insert the DVD, a pop up window will appear. From the Action drop down menu, choose “Open Finder” and then click the OK button

3. On your desktop, you will see an icon for an “Untitled DVD” Double click on it.

4. A Finder window will open. At the top of the Finder window are four ‘views’ by which you can see the items are on the DVD (Right now, it should be blank). Click on the first view which is “Show Items as Icons”

5. Click and drag the items that you want to burn to the DVD into this blank Finder window

6. When you have finished dragging and dropping the items that you want to burn to the DVD. Click on the burn button at the top of the Finder window or the burn icon next to “Untitled DVD” in the column on the left side of the Finder window.

7. Another pop up window will appear. Enter a name for your DVD (This should include your name, your class and/or your instructor. In case you lose the DVD, someone can return it to you.)

8. Once you have entered a name for your DVD, click the Burn button. The pop up widow will close and a progress window will open.

9. After the computer finishes burning the DVD, (a virus scan will run during some point in the burn process – just ignore it) click on the Eject button. There is also an Eject button on your keyboard. It looks like an upward pointing triangle with a dash under it and is located above the delete key, to the right of the F12 key.

The Circulation Desk has 2 Sony DVD Direct drives. With these you can go from your DV camcorder to burn to DVD.

Check out the drive from Circulation.

There are instruction manuals as well as Quick Start Guides with the drives.

Following the Quick Start Guide

1. Connect the video camera with the DV cable (black, gold ends)
2. Plug in the drive, turn it on and insert a DVD
3. Press REC to start recording (make sure DV is displayed before recording or display DV by pressing
4. Press Stop to stop recording, recording is completed, eject disc.

5. If Finalize appears when ejecting, press yes. (if you press no, for a DVD-RW the disc will not play on a DVD device until it is finalized.)

If you don’t want to do this, you must download the video into an editing program like iMovie and edit, then burn a DVD from there.

Multimedia production and recording equipment is available at the circulation desk in the Memorial Library.  External Hard FireWire drives, Digital Video Cameras, Digital Still Cameras, TuneTalk Microphones and iPods are available for loan and use outside the library. USB Microphones are available for in house use only.  The two multimedia rooms in the library are available for 3 hour periods and each contain a production level Mac and PC and software.Keep in mind, users will have to provide their own burnable CDs and DVDs for additional storage or back up.  Anyone who wants to use the digital video cameras will have to purchase their own miniDV tapes as well.