Digitization services

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Analog to Digital Conversion:

The New Media Center offers a service that can turn your old teaching tools (35 mm slides, LPs, cassettes and tapes) into digital images, video and sound files. This service is provided free of charge to faculty members for course-related materials only (a course number and department account number will be needed). As the service is dependent upon the availablity of student workers at the NMC, there may be some times of the year when digitization takes longer. There is a limit on the amount of materials that can be requested in a single job, depending on staff availablity.

Contact Paula Brett at 258-6009 or plbrett@princeton.edu.

Audio and Video Capture:

Note: for digitization or duplication of commercial audio or video, please first check the library listings for media. When used in courses, these materials are considered e-reserves, and require copyright clearance and an appropriate delivery channel for  your course.

For your own audio and video recordings, the following services are available:

Humanities Resource Center

The Human­i­ties Resource Cen­ter (HRC) has four Mac­in­tosh com­put­ers equipped with hard­ware and soft­ware to make cap­tur­ing clips from VHS cas­sette tapes and DVDs. Quick­time and Vidi can record straight from the attached DVD and VHS play­ers and pro­vide you with a dig­i­tal video file. This file can then be con­verted to any for­mat or size you wish by using MPEG Stream­clip. The com­put­ers also have DVD burn­ing soft­ware in case you need to make a hard copy of your clips.

Media Services

Media Services can convert a variety of analog tapes (PAL and NTSC) to a different formats and media.  Contact Media Services at 258-3196 or media@princeton.edu. A list of formats & charges can be found on their website. Media Services is located at 87 Prospect Avenue.

NMC

The New Media Cen­ter (NMC) has a large variety of com­puter soft­ware to cap­ture video clips from analog media. Dig­i­tal tape decks are also avail­able for cap­turing video from dig­i­tal tape. This digitized video can then be edited using software such as Final Cut Pro, installed at the NMC.

The NMC offers four different audio record­ing pro­grams for use inside the NMC lab. The four soft­ware pro­grams are Audac­ity, Sound­track Pro, Quick­Time Pro, and Adobe Audi­tion. The NMC also has an audio record­ing room specif­i­cally built as a quite and private place to record. The audio record­ing room can be reserved for any­time the NMC is open. Fac­ulty and stu­dents can request a one-on-one demon­stra­tion on how to use the audio tools.

The NMC is located in the Lewis Library. http://www.princeton.edu/nmc.

Duplication of digital media:

Media Services

Media Services provides audio editing and duplication services; video recording, video editing and duplication services; and technical support. A list for duplication prices can be found here: http://www.princeton.edu/mediaservices/duplication-service-charg/

NMC

The New Media Center has 3 CD/DVD duplication stations for faculty, staff & student use.

Resources for Scanning and OCR

OCR software allows for you to scan text from a book and convert the scan into editable text on your computer.

Scan­ners can be found at many locations on campus, including:
The Dig­i­tal Map and Geospa­tial Infor­ma­tion Cen­ter
School of Archi­tec­ture Library
Engi­neer­ing School Library
Lewis Library
Mar­quand Art Library
Human­i­ties Resource Cen­ter
New Media Center

School of Archi­tec­ture Library has the fol­low­ing scan­ners: 2 Epson Expres­sion 10000XL scan­ners in their Scan­ning Work­sta­tion Room. The Scan­ning Work­sta­tion Room is located next to the Cir­cu­la­tion desk. Largest size scan is 12.2″ x 17.2″.

Engi­neer­ing School Library has the fol­low­ing scan­ners: 2 Epson Expres­sion 1640 XL scan­ners located in the Doc­u­ment Scan­ning Cen­ter in Room 308 (3rd floor). Largest size scan is 12.2″ x 17.2″.

Lewis Library has the fol­low­ing scan­ners: 2 iVina FB6080E Bookedge Scan­ners. They are located on the A floor of the Library. Largest size scan is 11“x 17″.

Mar­quand Art Library has the fol­low­ing scan­ners: Book­eye 4, 2 Epson Expres­sion 10000XL scan­ners, and 1 iVina FB6080E scan­ner. The Book­eye 4 and the 2 Epson Expres­sion scan­ners are located on the 1st floor in the Doc­u­ment Scan­ning room. The iVina Scan­ner is located on the A floor. The Book­eye 4 scan­ning can scan up to 17 x 24 inch doc­u­ments and you can also han­dle more del­i­cate books with this scan­ner. It has a touch screen inter­face where you can save your scan on a USB drive or email your­self a copy of the scan. The Epson Expres­sion 100000 XL largest scan is 12.2″ x 17.2″. The iVina FB6080E largest scan is 11“x 17″.

Human­i­ties Resource Cen­ter has the fol­low­ing scan­ners: 2 Epson Per­fec­tion 3200 Photo scan­ner, and 1 Epson GT-S50 Doc­u­ment scan­ner. The Epson Per­fec­tion scan­ners largest scans are size A4 ( 8.27″ x 11.69″). The Epson GT-S50 doc­u­ment scan­ners largest scans are 8.5″ x 11″ and includes a document feeder. The HRC also offers several OCR packages including Abbyy FineReader, ReadIris, OmniPage, Adobe Acrobat, and ReadIris Middle East Edition.

New Media Cen­ter has the fol­low­ing scan­ners: 1 1640 XL Epson Expres­sions scan­ner, 1 10000XL Epson Expres­sions scan­ner, 2 Canon Canoscan 8800F scan­ners, 1 Fijitsu Fi-5580C Doc­u­ment Scan­ner, duplex-largest scan size 11″ x 17″, and 1 Fujitsu Scansnap S1500 Doc­u­ment scan­ner (8.5″ x 11″ largest scan). The Epson Expres­sion scan­ners largest scans are 12.2″ x 17.2″. The Canon Scanoscan 8800F largest scans are 8.5″ x 11″. Customers can use either Omnipage Professional or Adobe Acrobat software to scan & recognize text.