About the Digital Media Lab

Digital Collections Department [1] staff offer training and assistance to faculty and graduate students to help them get started on a digital project.  We offer training for slide and image scanning, video digitization, audio recording/editing, text scanning, and basic video editing.  In depth training is available by appointment only.

To make an appointment please email digitalcollections@northwestern.edu [2] OR  call (847) 467-1080.  The lab is open M-F, 9:30AM to 5PM.

Digitization Equipment

• Epson 1640 XL with 11"x17" flatbed
• Fujitsu 630c with document feeder
• JVC DVD/VCR recorder
• Nikon SuperCoolScan 4000 (slide/film/negative scanner)
• Numark USB turntable
• Panasonic DV/Mini-DV deck - DVCR 1
• Panasonic DVD recorder/VCR with 80 GB hard drive.
• Pioneer DVD/Divx player
• Sony DV hardware codec converter
• Scanner - Expression 1640XL Epson Flatbed 12 x 17" with transparency adapter
• TapeLink USB Alesis Cassette Deck

Software

Video

• Adobe Premiere CS6
• Adobe Flash CS6
• Final Cut Pro
• iMovie '09
• Screenflow

Image

• Adobe Fireworks CS6
• Adobe InDesign CS6
• Adobe Illustrator CS6
• Adobe Photoshop CS6
• Silverfast AI

Audio

• Adobe Soundbooth CS6
• Soundtrack Pro
• Garageband

Document Scanning / OCR

• ABBYY FineReader 10 Professional Edition
• OmniPage Professional 17

DVD Authoring

• DVD Studio Pro
• iDVD
• Toast 8 Titanium

Web

• Adobe Dreamweaver CS6
• iWeb

Digital Collections Recording Room

The Digital Collections Recording Room is now available to Northwestern University faculty, staff, and graduate students.

The Recording Room includes a VocalBooth designed for voice-overs, podcasts, presentation narration and conducting interviews. The room can also be used for video post-production work.

The VocalBooth is equipped with a high-quality condenser microphone fed outside of the booth into a digital mixer. The mixer is connected via firewire to a Mac Pro workstation set up with Apple Soundtrack Pro, Adobe Soundbooth CS6, Garageband, Audacity, and Screenflow.
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

To make a reservation, send us an email [3] or call (847) 467-1080.