|
|
By Dan Albrich (dalbrich@oregon.uoregon.edu)
This spring, the Computing Center's Microcomputer Services group has added several new free services for students, faculty and staff.
In addition to answering technical questions about microcomputer issues, the group now offers flatbed color scanning, CD "burning," and digital video acquisition from its office in Room 202. There are three sit-down stations to accommodate each of these new services.
Digital Video. The digital video acquisition station can copy video and audio from VCR tape, camcorder, DV camcorder (IEEE 1394), S-Video, RCA, and most commonly supported formats. The machine is equipped with a real-time MPEG1 encoder, which compresses the data to a transportable size. Once the data is acquired, you can copy it to a computer across the network or write it to CD, Jazz, or Zip. The data can also be converted to Quicktime, AVI or other popular formats.
CD Burning. CD burning allows you to write your data to a blank CD-R disc that will ultimately be readable by most CD-ROM drives. The typical cost of a blank CD is about two dollars; it can store 650Mb of data.
Note that copyright restrictions must be observed.
Help Desk Moved to Room 202. To accommodate existing and new services, we've combined our help desk and Microcomputer Services staff. The unified help desk is now upstairs in the Microcomputer Services office (Room 202). The office is open Monday through Friday from 9am to 5pm. Microcomputer consultants can be reached by calling 346-4412 or sending email to microhelp@oregon.uoregon.edu