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Welcome
to the Brown University Multimedia Labs. The MML was designed and is maintained as a facility for students and faculty involved in courses with multimedia production components. If you have questions about the MML, the hardware or software supported here, or any other issues, there are several ways to get help.
You should refer to this website or help and updated information about the facility. You should familiarize yourself with all the areas of the mml web-space.
The Student Consultants are in the lab to help you with the facility. Each Consultant specializes in specific creative fields and programs. Please refer to the Guruships listing under STAFF.
The Multimedia Lab Manager is available to help:
Grad Center MML: Edrex Fontanilla, Edrex@brown.edu
The Brown University Multimedia lab offers students access to the latest authoring tools available for experimenting with the production of audio, video, and still images, and for authoring hypertext and multimedia projects. Our hardware and software are consistently evaluated in the face of industry trends, academic needs, and artistic exploration. You will find a complete updated list of the lab's hardware and software in Resources, the Multimedia Lab website's technical information page .
Policies
Do not move, remove, attach, or reconfigure hardware.
There is a 'lost and found' box with the consultant.
The phone on the consultant desk is for Consultant and Faculty use only.
There is no food or drink permitted in the lab or classroom. Food and drink are permitted in the hallway and the foyer outside the Graduate Student Lounge.
Both labs are open and staffed 6 days/week when school is in session.
During Exam Period the labs continue to operate on a schedule limited by the availability of student consultants.
The labs are closed to all users during university holidays.
The Multimedia Lab is a media production facility. You should not use the Labs for computing tasks easily accomplished in other University clusters - checking mail, browsing the Web, and word processing are a few examples of inappropriate use.
No MML hardware or software may be used for commercial production work.
Getting started:
You can start most of the programs you will use from the Dock, located at the bottom of the screen when you log in. There is a folder for each of the following categories: Audio, Authoring, Graphics, Network, Text, and Video. Right click on any of the folders to reveal the applications in that category. Please note that all of the programs are located in the Applications Folder of the NetBoot volume.
While you are working you may store things in the TempWork volume on the machine you are using. However, these folders may be deleted by other MML users at any time. When you are done working you must store your work on removable media or the University Cluster Server (and make your own backups of all your work!). All of the machines in the lab are equipped with CD/DVD burning drives, and several workstations have local hard drives (labeled "TempWork") as well. Removable media are available in the Brown University Bookstore.
External firewire hard drives are available for checkout from the Academic Multimedia Program. Please go to http://cis.brown.edu/amp/ for more information.
Grad and List MML workstation TempWork drives are formatted at the end of every semester. Friedman MML workstations drives are formatted at every logout! Friedman computers logout after 15 minutes of inactivity. Please plan your workflow accordingly.
Working with video resources obviously takes a great deal of storage space. Please be considerate of others in your use of the TempWork and Media Drives. Back-up and remove material as soon as possible, and do not leave your material on the local hard drives once your project is completed.
MML Library
Books and magazines in the MML library are for use in the lab only. We use a library-style checkout system. If you want to use a book give your student I.D. to the consultant on duty.