Video Production
Duderstadt Checkout is the media equipment checkout facility in the Duderstadt Center. Located at the circulation desk on the second floor of the Duderstadt Center, we offer video camera, still camera, audio recording kits, lights, and tripods to faculty and students looking to create media for instruction or assigned class projects. Duderstadt-Checkout is not an 'open' checkout facility. We are here to support faculty who wish to include media tools for projects within a for-credit class context. The equipment available at the circulation desk is not intended for departmental projects, or work that is not intended as a class project. As we have limited resources, the importance of planning ahead cannot be stressed enough.
These resources, combined with the consulting and support of the Digital Media Commons staff, are a terrific resource for learning, practicing and producing amazing content. Groundworks, located on the first floor of the Duderstadt Center, is a great place to start asking media related questions. Groundworks has staff available for consultation from 9-9, Monday-Thursday, 9-6 on Friday and from noon-9 on Sunday. Here, you can ask questions about the media tools available at the Duderstadt Center, and Groundworks has access to all the tools necessary to put your project together.
In order to access the equipment, you will need com request access through our application
The Recording Booth in Groundworks is one of the best places on campus to record yourself. This sound isolation booth is equipped with a camera, microphone, and the ability to capture the desktop of the computer. The Recording Booth is a terrific place to create a presentation, narrate a voiceover for your movie, and record your music
The Personal Studio is designed to create dynamic, publication-ready videos at the push of a button. This all-in-one, easy-to-use video production resource offers a teleprompter, backdrops, cameras, microphones, and preconfigured professional lighting.
An intuitive touchscreen interface enables users to capture, stream, and edit videos in real-time. This system uses the versatile Wirecast software, which provides features such as shot selection, title overlays, picture-in-picture, chroma keying, annotation, and multiple inputs. There is also a laptop connection with modes for capturing or streaming an activity.
Media and Studio Arts Audio Studios in the Duderstadt Center, has three world class audio studios available for any active member of the university. These specialized spaces are in a class of their own. Training is required before access can be given, please contact the MSA team or Groundworks@umich.edu with more questions.
The MSA Video Studio is an experimental media lab and high quality documentation space that is available to the entire University of Michigan's community. Well equipped and staffed, it enables original concepts and ideas to be turned into rich media that can be shared with the world. The Video Studio is also a collaborative sandbox, where faculty, students, visiting educators, scientists and artists come to collaborate and to produce or display high quality video and audio and to experiment with media technology. Whether it be capturing green screen sequences, recording motion capture data, experimenting with projection mapping, or documenting an original performance using multiple cameras and microphones - to name just a fraction of the possibilities - Video Studio projects are typically experimental or academic and represent learning, teaching and research across the disciplines.