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Focus on Editing: Jay Ankeney
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Jay Ankeney is a free-lance editor and post production consultant based in Los Angeles. Write him at 220 39th St. (upper), Manhattan Beach, CA 90266.
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State of the Edit Report: What’s Ahead for 2008
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by Jay Ankeney, 4.14.2008
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The second annual State of the Edit Report asked edit system manufacturers who are exhibiting at NAB to comment on where editing is today, and where post production is headed in general.
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What Editors Want in 2008
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by Jay Ankeney, 2.20.2008
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Every year our annual Editor Roundup asks digicutters in various facets of our craft where they would like post-production technology to go and what would make their editing life more creative. As usual, this year’s harvest reaped a bountiful crop.
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Post-Production Codecs
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by Jay Ankeney, 12.05.2007
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One of the greatest gifts editors received during the year past is a second compression codec designed specifically for post production. By bringing out ProRes 422 as part of its Final Cut Studio 2 software suite, Apple has presented us with their own ability to squeeze uncompressed HD down to SD file sizes, three years after Avid introduced DNxHD in 2004.
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2007 Emmy Award Winning Editors
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by Jay Ankeney, 10.17.2007
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Fortunately, the members of the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences did see this $40 million, five-hour production, because on Sept. 8 at the Creative Arts Emmy Awards ceremony at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles, the five editors who cut this magnificent post-production tour de force took home golden statuettes in recognition of their achievement.
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The Mystery of Mastering
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by Jay Ankeney, 8.22.2007
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With high-definition screens becoming commonplace in home theaters, and everyone migrating to digital reception whether they want to or not, the signature “look” of TV shows is becoming as important as the auteur visual concepts traditionally heralded by feature film makers.
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Rookies Score Big at Super Bowl XLI
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by Jay Ankeney, 4.16.2007
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The ads of Super Bowl XLI were the gift that kept on giving.
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What Editors Wish For in The New Year
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by Jay Ankeney, 1.24.2007
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The beginning of a new year is a time to look forward. So for this year's "Editor's Wish List," I was able to harvest some terrific suggestions from a variety of innovative post pros about what they would like someone to come up with to make their post-production workflow easier.
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Tapeless: From the Field To the Edit Suite
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by Jay Ankeney, 9.20.2006
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We've all wanted to go tapeless ever since the CMX-600 dangled that tantalizing possibility before our editing eyes in 1971.
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The Power and Speed of Laptop Editing Increases
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by Jay Ankeney, 6.28.2006
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Do you remember the early days of mobile video editing?
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Post Production Thrives At NAB2006
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by Jay Ankeney, 5.24.2006
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As HD production was seen as a mainstay at NAB2006, the challenge of wrestling with it in post took center stage.
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The Impact of iNEWS
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Instinct in the Real World
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by Jay Ankeney, 11.23.2005
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Starting this month, editors will be presented with the most radical evolution in editing user interfaces since GUIs began to replace timecode-based EDLs back in the 1980s.
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Editing at the Emmy Level
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by Jay Ankeney, 10.19.2005
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"Editing is starting to become recognized as the true art form that it is," 2005 Emmy winner Michael Berenbaum reflects. "When dealing with modern digital edit systems, it has become far less a technical skill and much more a huge contribution to the craft of storytelling."
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Avid Rolls Out Native HDV Editing
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by Jay Ankeney, 9.21.2005
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Earlier this month at IBC, Avid announced new versions of software that will enable editing HDV in its native format.
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HDV Infiltrates Regular Television Production
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by Jay Ankeney, 8.17.2005
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They said it couldn't be done, but now that the long GOP recording format called HDV has found its way into the hands of real-world editors and production folk, it is starting to prove that a lot of the early skeptics were wrong.
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Tackling HDV Editing: At the Starting Gate
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by Jay Ankeney, 7.20.2005
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HDV was one of the hits of NAB2005. Now, as the dust is starting to settle, trying to survey the spectrum of how major editing manufacturers are tackling the challenge of posting that long-GOP (group of pictures) format is almost as daunting as squeezing a massive high-definition recording onto a tiny DV tape.
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The View from the Horizon
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by Jay Ankeney, 6.22.2005
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It was 20 years ago today...
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In Praise of Unsung Editors
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by Jay Ankeney, 4.18.2005
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This is a story about the most unsung editors working their magic at an innovative company called 2G Digital Post just outside of Los Angeles. It is also about a remarkable post-production entrepreneur who had the vision to re-think a process the stodgy old studios were making a hash of, and figure out a way to do it right.
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The Goal of Post at Super Bowl XXXIX
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by Jay Ankeney, 3.28.2005
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Increasingly, it's the video elements only tangentially relevant to passing the pigskin that are becoming the hits of the show.
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The Editors' Wish List
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by Jay Ankeney, 2.16.2005
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It's almost spring, a time when many a post pro's thoughts turn to "editor's dreams" -- speculation on innovations they would like the industry to conjure up to improve all our digicutting lives.
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Pushing the HD Editing Envelope
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by Jay Ankeney, 1.19.2005
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We've seen high definition being edited on desktop NLEs for a while, but in the past it has always involved feeding the source HD into the system via HD-SDI, which, with its required video cards, makes it more expensive than long-form features can usually afford. But when Panasonic released its AJ-HD1200A deck, the whole equation changed.
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