Field order & video misconceptions

Trish & Chris Meyer are posting their library of tutorials on After Effects and video onto their ProVideo Coalition blogs: Creating Motion Graphics and CMG Keyframes. The latest ones debunk common misconceptions on field dominance, field rendering, and time code; others clarify luminance, float, aspect ratios, and more.

Plus there's Favorite Technical References if you want extra geek.

They also have a video/DVD explaining all this quite effectively: VideoSyncrasies, The Motion Graphics Problem Solver.

Videocopilot demo of Twitch filter

Videocopilot has a demo movie of Twitch, their new plug-in for After Effects. Look for a ton of tutorials to show you every feature.

Steve Jobs, love him or hate him, is Arab-American

...and maybe Jewish too, depending on your reality-distortion field. TechCrunch claims that Love Him or Hate Him, Fortune Cannot Make Up Its Mind About Steve Jobs.

I don't read Fortune magazine but I did find it interesting that I missed the news that Jobs' biological father was a Syrian Arab, who lives not too far from Cupertino. His biological mother is Joanne Carole Schieble from Wisconsin, who some think is Jewish (not that there is anything wrong with that). More articles says that his mother is German/Swiss Catholic. Some background can be found in an article from the Green Bay Press Gazette, which was re-posted in Silicon Valley Watcher.

Update: also fun is that Jobs' biological sister Mona Simpson was the inspiration for naming Homer Simpson's mother, by her boyfriend Jeff Appel who was a writer on The Simpsons.

Update: more details leaked out after Jobs' death in 2011. See especially Macworld UK's 2015 article, Who is Steve Jobs’ Syrian immigrant father, Abdul Fattah Jandali?

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.