Faculty Tutorials
Adding and Formatting Text InDesign
This tutorial shows how to add and format text for your InDesign poster.Create a Text Box When adding text to your project, you will want to use the guides to center and align your text boxes. Select the text tool from the tool panel. The text tool icon is an...
Adding Images and Graphics to an InDesign Project
This tutorial shows how to add images and graphics to an InDesign poster.Creating Frames for Your Graphics To place an Image in your poster, you will first want to create an approximate layout of what you want your poster to look like by making a frame for each...
Making Adjustments to Images in InDesign
This tutorial walks though how to make different adjustments to images in your InDesign poster.Moving an Image After placing your images in their frames, you may want to reposition it within the frame, such as the image in the lower right corner of our poster. Choose...
Exporting An InDesign Poster
This tutorial walks through how to export your finished poster as a PDF file.To be able to share or print the poster you created in InDesign, you will next to export it as a PDF.NOTE: You may want to run the spell check before exporting your poster because InDesign...
What’s New at Media Commons
Every summer the TLT Media Commons team embarks on a process of reviewing and renewing our many initiatives, services, tools and technologies with the intent of bringing the latest and greatest media creation opportunities to Penn State students and...
Backing Up Your InDesign Project
This tutorial walks through backing up an InDesign project to cloud storage or a flash drive. When working on a Media Commons iMac, you will have to back up your project when you are not actively working on it. Penn State’s iMacs get refreshed daily, so everything...
Using the Rotate Sphere effect in Adobe Premiere for 360° Video
This tutorial show how to use the rotate sphere effect in Adobe Premiere Pro, which allows you to re-orient your 360° footage. This may be useful if you need to change the starting position of your 360° video, or the horizon on your footage is off, which may happen if...
Using the VR Plane to Sphere Effect in Adobe Premiere for 360° Video
This tutorial shows how to use the VR Plane to Sphere effect in Adobe Premiere Pro to take 2D elements such as pictures, standard video, or titles, and map them properly into your 360° video.Add the VR Plane to Sphere Effect Because of the way 360° videos are laid...
Backing Up iMovie/Final Cut Projects to Cloud Storage from a Media Commons iMac
This tutorial will show you how to backup and restore your iMovie project using cloud storage. The process for backing up a Final Cut project is the same.Movie Library iMovie will autosave all of its data and assets (video, images, audio) into a library file called...
Spring 2019 Semester Report
Spring 2019 Report Spring 2019 saw 11,651 students and faculty use Teaching and Learning with Technology's Media Commons, Maker Commons, and Immersive Experiences Lab initiatives across the Commonwealth. Much of this use was focused in 259 classes in nearly every...