David B. Weigle Information Commons
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Hours and Contact Info
Lab Phone: 215-746-2661
Hours of operation
Send us an email (wic1@pobox.upenn.edu)
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WICshops and Events
Blackboard Examples
Aug 21, 11:30 AM to 12:30 PM
iMovie
Aug 20, 3 PM to 4:30 PM
Aug 25, 1 PM to 2:30 PM
PhotoShop Beyond Basics
Aug 21, 1 PM to 3 PM
Selected Works
Aug 22, 12 PM to 1 PM
Vitale Digital Media Lab

The lab offers training, equipment and knowledgeable staff to assist patrons in working with digital media including video, audio, imaging, and web publishing.
The lab includes:
  • Eleven full-scale video-editing stations with headphones
  • Poster printer for posters up to 40" wide
  • Four scanners, including slide, film, document feeder, and large-format capability
  • Digital video/audio conversion from several formats
  • Video cameras and audio recording devices
  • Experienced lab consultants for one-on-one and small group assistance.
Software and Hardware Resources

Lab Policies for general room use and reservations by faculty

Scheduled Lab Closings

Books in the Lab


Equipment Lending Program


Popular uses of the Media Lab:
  • Convert VHS and mini-DVD to digital format
  • Digitize audio recordings from vinyl records and cassettes
  • Create web sites with sound and video
  • Produce audio and video projects on DVD and CD
  • Record audio narrative on a PowerPoint presentation
  • Digitize 35mm slides on the 50-slide scanner
  • Scan large, complex images
  • Scan printed text to MS Word or other digital format
Lab resources are available to all current Penn students, faculty, and staff. Lab resources are not available to alumni and members of general public.

Classroom Learning: We welcome faculty to use the lab with their classes. To teach in the lab or arrange for our staff to provide training for your class, please complete our online form.

Printing: Charges apply for all printing tasks. More information is available at Library FAQ and the Poster Printer FAQ.

We can import audio/video to our workstations
from the following sources:
  • VHS (NTSC, PAL, SECAM)
  • DVD (multi-region)
  • miniDV
  • Video CD (VCD)
  • Audio CD
  • Audio Cassette
  • Vinyl record (33 1/3 or 45 rpm only)
  • Existing video files (mpg, mpeg, avi, mov)
  • Existing audio files (mp3, AAC, WAV, AIFF, Ogg Vorbis)
   We do NOT have equipment in the lab to import:
  • Full-sized DV tapes or DVCam tapes
  • Betamax
  • D8 (Hi-8, etc) tapes
  • DVCPro
  • VHS-C
  • 8-Track tapes
  • 78rpm vinyl records
  • Flash videos like those from YouTube, Google Video, etc.
If you bring your own camera or video/video deck that has an S-Video or RCA output, we can most likely patch it into our system and allow you to import your video to edit. If you do not see a format specifically mentioned above, please ask us.
Procedure for encoding video to post to the School of Arts and Sciences (SAS) Media Server.
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