Saul Bass website and 'Hitchcock' font

via the AE-List, starting with a Bass-like version of a Star Wars title sequence...

Saul Bass, famous for design and film titles, is still a source of inspiration. Typographica notes resources and Bass-inspired fonts, including for the Hitchcock font, at Saul Bass Website and “Hitchcock” Font Are Back.

Update: 37 Signals hosts backstory and YT clips in Title sequences from Saul Bass, the master of film title design.

Live web video

Oh yeah, it looks like YouTube is the answer to previous posts on Who Will Be The YouTube Of Live Video?

Live video on the web does matter but not in ways used right now. Here's a backgrounder on live video via NewTeeVee; at around time 1:50 (in the middle of the time bar), YouTube co-founder Steve Chen tells Pop17 videoblogger Sarah Meyers that YouTube is moving in:



Update: live from mobile devices is next up; see Live from your mobile. The next big thing? at Watching TV Online.

Overexpose or underexpose?

Prolost follows up on the challenging article on Digital Cinema Dynamic Range with a well-illustrated discussion on getting the correct exposure for a scene. See Exposing to the Left vs. Exposing to the Right, and as usual don't miss the comments.

Encore CS3 and Blu-ray on the MacPro

Dave's Tech Table has some updated info on Working with Adobe Encore CS3 and Blu-ray, especially concerning using the 2 ODD onboard SATA ports on a MacPro.

Webware Web 2.0 video projects

From a list of thousands of nominees, Webware selected 300 finalists for the public vote in the 2008 Webware 100 Awards. It's a quick way to see what's happening with video in Web 2.0 projects.

The Video category contains tools for storage, playback, streaming, editing, live broadcasting, and animation. There's bunch of worthy ventures that didn't make the cut (was live video site Stickcam too sexy?). Sites like Hulu and Seesmic weren't in the 100 because they were still in private beta when the eligibility period ended.

(via Ryan Stewart, who points out the Flash/flex apps).

AIR and its implications for video

Beet.TV has an interview on AIR and its implications for video with Ryan Stewart, a Rich Internet Application Evangelist for Adobe. Beet.TV has more from the Adobe Engage conference, just scout around.



Apparently Microsoft's Silverlight will be in the spotlight next week. Silverlight 1.0 is primarily focused on video, and word is that the features management wanted could only be done now in Flash (which is often done on the Mac inside MS). That should change with Silverlight 2; see Scott Guthrie's blog post First Look at Silverlight 2 (beta release 1).

Update: there's more on this from Adobe VP David Wadhwani (and more analysis on Beet.TV and a 2007 overview in The Architecture of Flash):



Update 2: eWeek (3/3/08) talks to CTO Kevin Lynch about AIR and Open Source in Adobe Floating on AIR.

Adobe Director 11 Does Physics & 3D

Create Digital Motion notes the upcoming release of Director 11, which does more Flash plus AGEIA Physics and 3D rendering with DirectX 9.

Not sure what you'll find if you scratch the surface...