Copyright: When planning a digital capture project, begin by requesting permissions for materials not in the public domain. If there are digital photographs, video, or sounds for which permission to copy cannot be obtained, the Freedman Center will not support the capture of the materials.
Please Note:
- Capturing Video is a 3 step Process.
- Capturing Video is a Real Time Process: If your video is one hour long, it will take one hour to capture your video, and an additional 20-30 minutes to process it. There is no way to speed this process up. It is a good idea to bring along something to read, or something else to do while waiting at your station.
- Close all other programs open on the machine. Having other programs open may interfere with the capture software.
This guide demonstrates video capture on the Toshiba VCR/DVD Player. These steps can also be used to capture video from any of the other devices in the Freedman Center.
- Before beginning your project, ask a Freedman Center staff member if there is enough space on the hard drive to capture all of your video.
- Create a folder in the D-User Storage folder and label it with your network ID. This is where you will save all of your files.

- Headphones can be checked out from the Main Service Center on the 1st floor of the library. You will be given headphones that have a 3.5mm adapter on them. Use these headphones and the adapter in the audio box as shown in the next section. If you only need the adapter, that can be checked out from the Main Service Center as well.