The DMC was able to assist Rice GCURS (Gulf Coast Undergraduate Research Symposium) in creating a 3D file that was etched into glass. The result was given to participants of GCURS 2016 for their presentation of original research discoveries gcurs.rice.edu
The 3D file was created in Autodesk Maya and Blender
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The video below is the end product of a workshop offered at the DMC “Animate Blood Cells using Blender”. Participants will learn how to model, animate and render simple blood cells. The skills learned in this workshop can be used to create custom visuals to supplement research material.
Eligible participants may register here
The guide may be viewed here
The students from ELEC 305, an Electronic and Computer Engineering course taught by professor Gary Woods in Spring of 2016, created videos to explain “how something works”. They made full use of DMC resources. They checked out DMC equipment to record their videos and audios, used DMC video editing software to edit their videos. DMC staff presented an in-class training as well as hands-on help in the lab. The staff also helped the professor to judges the videos.
Below video created by the students from this class is a good example of how students used the Chroma Keying effect in a very creative way. The green screen footage was recorded inside the DMC video/photography studio.
The following comments are from our patron Anson Fung, who checked out DMC equipment to record a heated debate:
“The Rice University Federalist Society was incredibly blessed to have Rice DMC’s support in the recording of our event ‘A Heated Debate: A Discussion the Science and Policy of Climate Change’. Thanks to the DMC’s expertise in equipment recommendations and advice on video editing, Rice University Federalist Society was able to document a debate that attendees noted was one of the most substantive discussions on climate change. As of November 1st, we have had well over 500 views on our video and many friends of Dr. Willie Soon, one of the event’s speakers, have thanked us for making the event available to those who could not be physically present. Equipment we used included the Canon XA-10, 2 Azden wireless microphones, the Canon VIXIA for 2nd angle shots, and a Zoom H4N for backup audio recording. Post-production editing was accomplished with Final Cut Pro X on Macintosh. The DMC has been instrumental in making sure that the Rice University Federalist Society can expand the knowledge gained from non-partisan and objective debates beyond the Rice community.
A recording of this video can be seen on our website, www.ricefedsoc.com, as well as on Youtube at https://youtu.be/q2Nx_bQtSNI. ” — Anson Fung, Public Relations Officer of The Rice University Federalist Society
Aaron Garrett, Assistant Production Manager at Shepherd School of Music, has been using DMC equipment, particularly Canon Vixia XA10 video camera and Velbon tripod for theatrical recordings. Recently he started to use DMC new Sony HXR-NX3/1 NXCAM Professional Handheld Camcorder and Manfrotto MVH502A Fluid Head and 546B Tripod System to record his performances.
https://www.youtube.com/c/AaronGarrettMLH – This channel contains Aaron’s most frequent recordings, with a new segment going up each Wednesday. Traditionally Aaron used the XA10 for these, but he’s also used the smaller camcorder like DMC Canon Vixia M500 video camera.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y1RVdMdmD_c – That video was filmed using two XA10s in addition to the theater’s equipment.
According to Aaron, DMC equipment worked great and the audio from XA10 camera is excellent. He appreciated DMC resources and support and is eager to use the high-end equipment for more cinematic recordings.
A group of PhD students majoring Vocals from Shepherd Music School learned about DMC resources from the introduction DMC director Jane Zhao gave during graduate student orientation at the beginning of the school year. Lindsay Brown was one of many who took advantage of DMC equipment and software to shoot and edit their audition videos and were very happy with the video and audio quality. Not only they got advices from the DMC staff members about what equipment is best for shooting musical performance and how to set up and use the equipment, they also got hand-by-hand help when it came to edit and audio/video synchronization in professional video editing software Final Cut Pro X.
Below is a snippet of Lindsay’s recording:
DMC Equipment used: Canon Vixia Video Camera, Zoom H4n, Velbon Tripod
DMC Software used: Final Cut Pro X for trimming and AV sync.
K.Belik Ph.D, a Lecturer of Center for Written, Oral and Visual Communication at Rice University assigned students to create a short video for a FWIS class assignment. Some students created animated videos. A few groups borrowed DMC equipment to record footage. One group created whiteboard animation using hand drawing technique. Below are the snippets of this group’s final video.
DMC resources used for the video are:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hE7cSMFCOLk&feature=youtu.be
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uk2CSaJ4fEw&feature=youtu.be
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wLXsWUGZv-o&feature=youtu.be
Anthony Brandt, Associate Professor of Composition and Theory at Shepherd School of Music, gave the keynote at the Symbol Grounding Workshop in Nis, Serbia on May 20, 2016 through Skype at the DMC Audio Studio. His lecture was titled “Is Music a Universal Language?”
In ENGI 120, a team of faculty at Rice University and other institutions has created instructional resources to support a flipped classroom model for first-year engineering design. Matthew Wettergreen, a lecture of Oshman Engineering Design Kitchen at Rice University, and Dr. Ann Saterbak, a professor of Bioengineering at Rice University, have been piloting a number of class periods in the format of flipped classroom since 2015. Their lectures were recorded in the DMC Video/Photography Studio.
Links:
YouTube video: Clarifying Team Assignments
YouTube video: User Defined Scales
Transforming Electricity Procurement At Rice University, Richard Johnson, 2016 (Spring 2016): This video was created by Shari Smith, who used DMC video studio to record Richard Johnson’s shot using green screen. The voiceover narration of the video was recorded in DMC audio studio.
User’s Comments: “Thank you very much for your help and the use of the audio and video studios in the DMC…You rock! ” –Shari Smith
