Media Lab: Media Lab Resources

Resources for your projects

On this page you'll find resources to help you with your digital media projects, including links to places you can search for music, photos, and video you can incorporate into your own works, databases and tutorials to help with projects, and links to software you can download from home.

The Library offers several great databases to help customers enhance their learning experience.

LinkedIn Learning provides video tutorials and full courses on learning available software and techniques. Using the search box, you can jump directly to content in a tutorial to help you get to the heart of your inquiry faster. Some courses can link to your LinkedIn profile to show your training has been completed. This is free with a valid COD Library card. Below are some courses offered through this database to help you get started on different media projects. Editing video in Adobe Premiere Pro Create an infographic in PowerPoint Learn audio recording and editing in Audacity

OReilly for Higher Education provides full textbook and "for dummies" books to aid users of all levels in software and techniques. Using the name of programs or keywords, a customer can pull up courses or textbooks to read via any tech device in our out of the Library.

The following open-source media creation applications can be downloaded and used free of charge on Mac and Windows computers.

Video Production

• Teleprompter 

Video Editing

• DaVinci Resolve
• Kdenlive

Photo Editing

• GIMP

Digital Illustration

• Inkscape

Audio Recording and Editing

• Audacity

There are many resources online for finding videos, images, and music you can use in your projects. Below are a few places to start your search. The Library does not guarantee that everything you find at the following links is in the public domain, or otherwise available to be used or reproduced in your project; it is your responsibility to determine the copyright status of any materials you want to use. To learn more about copyright check out the COD Library’s Copyright Guide.

COD Library Image Databases

• Search several database collections for thousands of images from many different subject areas.

Stock Images and Videos

• Search Pexels and Unsplash for free images and video with Creative Commons licenses
• Archive.org is a resource for finding archival video, images, and sound
• Vimeo Creative Commons 
• Flickr

Music

• Free Music Archive 
• Creative Commons has a list of sites with music published under a variety of Creative Commons licenses