Resource Center Media Conversions
Given the wide variety of formats in which video materials have been recorded, the Language Resource Center has developed the ability to convert video materials from one format to another when access to those materials is otherwise compromised. This includes capturing videotaped materials and recording them on writable DVDs as well as converting DVD materials to digital files that can be hosted on faculty laptops for display in the classroom environment. In this way, international DVDs recorded in the PAL format rendering them inaccessible to American DVD players can be shown in the second language classroom without impediment and international videotapes no longer supported by classroom equipment can once again be made available to student audiences.