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All of the IMC’s services are available for use by Communication Faculty, Staff, and Graduate Students enrolled for the current semester.
Undergraduates enrolled for the current semester can only use the equipment or have duplications made with direct permission from a Communication Faculty or Staff member or Graduate student (see the section on Undergraduate use for complete details).
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
We duplicate 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.
[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.]
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.