Create a video of your screen on a Mac

After reading about taking a screen capture, a photo of your computer screen,  you might have wondered about taking a video of your screen. Like taking a screen grab, recording video from your screen is easy  on a Mac with QuickTime Player. You can also record other video and audio using the built in camera and microphone on your Mac.

Just follow these steps:

- From the Finder Applications folder launch Quick Time Player:

-Click on File menu and select "New Screen Recording":

-Click on the red button to start recording:
                       - When you are done, click on the stop button to stop.

- Your video will start playing in QuickTime player:

- Save the video in your desired location:

Converting a DV into DVD

Converting MiniDV or 8mm tape to DVD

[Make sure that the playback deck and Sony DVD Recorder are connected by a single cable. Also make sure that all of them are connected to their respective power sources! Bring a DVD with you (one can be purchased in the Info Commons vending machine.) ]

1) Turn on the playback deck.

2) Push the “Menu” button.

3) Under “IN/OUT REC”, make sure that “A/VàDV OUT” is set to “OFF”.

4) Insert the tape in the playback deck.

*** Suggestion: play the tape using the playback deck just to be sure that the tape is working properly.

5) Turn on the Sony DVD Recorder.

6) Push the menu button in the Sony DVD Recorder and select “Video à DVD”.

7) Select “DV IN”

8) Push the eject button and insert the DVD.

9) Hit the “Play” button in the playback deck. The Sony DVD Recorder will start recording automatically. (The white button glows with a red outline while recording. You can also press the big white button to record)

***Conversions from tape are in real time i.e., converting the tape requires the actual time it takes to play the footage.

10) Even after all the footage has been transferred, the DVD Recorder will continue to look for video signal until the tape runs out. It will finalize everything automatically at the end of the tape. Or you can stop the recording when you have what you need.

11) Once it finishes finalizing, the recorder will eject the DVD automatically.

Congratulations! You are done!

For more complete instructions, there is a document with complete instructions for using this equipment in the holder next to the equipment.

Research Guides -- Your Online Research Friend

Ever felt like you have no resources for your assignment or project? Don't know where to go for royalty-free videos and images? The MHC Research Guides are here to help you!

From academic research to creative commons pictures, Research Guides can help you  find many different resources .

To start, access the Research Guides website from the LITS main website.

From there, you will reach the main page for research guides. There, not only will you see topics distributed according to academic subjects like Humanities and Social Science, but you can also view how-to topics (such as citing, finding images, etc) that can help you with your research. If you wish to see research guides for specific courses from specific semesters, you can click on one of the links under  "Previous Course Guides".

After clicking the topic you wish to explore, you will arrive at that topic's main research guide page. This page is built specifically to help you with research on the chosen topic. Different types of  resources are listed under the tabs. If you need further help from a librarian for your research, you can contact the LITS liaison whose contact information is displayed in the main page.

Happy researching!