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Media Duplication: How to request

Fill Out a Form

All we need from you is the source material you want copied, blank tapes to copy them on to (sorry, we do not sell tapes), and a completed Duplication Request Form (PDF). Please fill out the form completely and be precise in your instructions to insure your duplication is done correctly.

Most duplications can be completed in less than 24 hours

Video Duplications

We can duplicate from a wide variety of video formats:

  • DVD
  • VHS and S-VHS
  • Mini DV and DVCAM
  • BetacamSP
  • Hi-8, Video 8, and Digital 8
  • ¾” Umatic Videotape
  • VHS-C and S-VHS-C
  • “old style” ½” Beta Videotape
  • ½” Reel-to-Reel Videotape

We can also transfer videos recorded in any foreign video standard (such as PAL or SECAM) into the American (NTSC) standard and vice versa. In addition, we can record material from and SD memory card to a DVD as either a standard DVD or as data files.

[Important note - The IMC does not do editing. We can put more than one short video back to back on a long video (or single parts of separate tapes - if you have each tape already cued up). However, our duplication equipment is only able to record things from beginning to end - not to assemble short clips off of one or more tapes to create a final finished product - as with editing.]

Audio Duplications

We have a high speed audiocassette duplicator (which might even finish the job in a minute or two, while you wait - make sure your master and blank tapes are both the same length).

We can also duplicate CDs, microcassettes, and DAT tapes as well as older formats such as reel-to-reel audiotape and LPs. We can copy them to CDs, regular cassettes, microcassettes, DAT tapes, and reel-to-reel tape (though none of them at high speed).

We can also record the audio from a videotape onto an audiotape and the audio from an audiotape onto a videotape.

Off-Air Recording

We can tape programs off of either the Time-Warner digital tier or the UT Cable TV Channels or from DirecTV for you. Bring us a VHS tape or DVD-R, and fill out a Duplication Request Form (available in PDF format) with the channel, date, and times you need recorded and the IMC staff will record it for you. Be sure you have this information before you put in your request. We will not be able to find that information for you. We can program to record TV after we are closed, however radio recording needs to be done during regular IMC hours.

Copyright Guidelines

Learn more about the copyright guidelines the IMC uses in doing media duplications here…

WebCheckout

Do it yourself reservations with WEBCHECKOUT:

To find out if the IMC has the audio-visual equipment or media archive materials you need available, go to our WEBCHECKOUT database. It’s quick and easy to use, provides you with a variety of search options, shows you photos of the equipment, lists software and accessories, and shows you availability in real time.

You can make your reservations on the WEBCHECKOUT website
(3 day limit on reservation length) or call the IMC at 471-3419 to make your reservation or ask questions about WEBCHECKOUT.

Instruction manuals for IMC equipment and all IMC forms are available in the Adobe PDF format, viewable and printable with Acrobat Reader, a free downloadable from Adobe.

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