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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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Tapeless Editing Emerges in 2004
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by Jay Ankeney, 11.24.2004
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For this last "Focus on Editing" installment in 2004, we're going to look back on the most significant post-production watershed crowning the calendar--the move toward tapeless editing.
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Emmy-Winning Editor
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by Jay Ankeney, 10.20.2004
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We'll examine the creative input Lee Haxall had on the success of "Arrested Development" (which won five Emmys, including "Outstanding Comedy Series"), but to appreciate her progress, it's helpful to understand Haxall's career in context.
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Adobe in Action
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by Jay Ankeney, 9.22.2004
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The goal of this column, however, is to find out how new editing products perform under real-world production pressures, so I contacted two editors using Premier Pro who faced intriguingly different challenges.
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Online at the Speed of Wow!
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by Jay Ankeney, 8.18.2004
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With the vast majority of primetime scripted TV shows being shot in high definition these days, the challenge of online mastering programs containing data-intensive HD images can be daunting.
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Long GOP Editing
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by Jay Ankeney, 8.04.2004
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Kick back with a cold one and journey with me under the guidance of the good folks at Pinnacle Systems into the mystical world of low bit-rate editing.
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The HD Codec Revolution
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by Jay Ankeney, 6.23.2004
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At NAB2004, a lot of the excitement was generated by companies who have come up with very clever ways of wrangling that high bandwidth HD signal into an NLE's software.
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Offline in Your Briefs, Online in Your Jammies
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by Jay Ankeney, 4.21.2004
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In an era when editing and effects specialists control digital technologies through data screens and their clients can view the results via long distance communications, is it really necessary for everyone to congregate in the same crowded edit bay for creative minds to meet?
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The Aesthetics of Super Bowl Ads
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by Jay Ankeney, 3.26.2004
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Let's kick off our annual analysis of the most striking of this year's Super Bowl ads by celebrating the editing principles behind these mixtures of entertainment and hype.
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The HDV Breakthrough
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by Jay Ankeney, 2.18.2004
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The original idea was "HD for the Masses" when JVC introduced its prosumer GR-HD1 camera last March based on a new recording format called HDV.
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Galloping into 2004
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by Jay Ankeney, 1.21.2004
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It looks like post production is sprinting out of the starting gate in 2004 as the result of expectations for a major upturn in capital investment empowered by the welcome cash flow of increased production-especially in high end technologies.
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Promises Delivered
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by Jay Ankeney, 11.26.2003
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This has been a pivotal year for the video production industry; fighting a sour economy on one hand and the soaring challenge of HD migration on the other.
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Emmy-Winning Editor On the Fast Track
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by Jay Ankeney, 10.29.2003
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This is a story of a lot of pluck, a little luck, and a great deal of talent that is inspirational to every editor.
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Editing: Tracks in the Sand
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by Jay Ankeney, 9.17.2003
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Tape reels give way to nonlinear editors over the past two decades.
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The Legacy of Linear
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by Jay Ankeney, 8.23.2003
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Hot enough for ya? Let's chill with a bit of post-production perspective.
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Editors' Feedback Key to dps Upgrade
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by Jay Ankeney, 7.23.2003
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Sometimes it's not only the big splashy award-winning products you see introduced at the annual NAB fest that catch your eye.
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Requiem for A Heavyweight
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by Jay Ankeney, 6.25.2003
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Not every editor felt the earth rumble, but our universe changed at NAB2003 when Editware announced that it would no longer develop its DPE line of linear edit systems.
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An Editor's Wish List
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by Jay Ankeney, 4.23.2003
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Knowing that this column will appear just after the NAB festivities but before we get the chance to review the show, it seemed a good time to harvest a wish list from editors to enhance our post production capabilities.
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Super Bowl: Convergence Happens
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by Jay Ankeney, 3.19.2003
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There was 4:41 left in the third quarter of Super Bowl XXXVII with Tampa Bay up 34 over Oakland's 3 when suddenly amid the crash of helmets and shoulder pads -- convergence happened.
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Positive Post News in Uncertain Times
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by Jay Ankeney, 2.19.2003
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It's been a tough time for all of us in the editing world during the past year. But surprisingly, even with new technologies at both the high and the low end challenging traditional business models, I keep hearing about forward-thinking post-production houses that have been able to ride above this ebb tide by finding ways to keep profitable.
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New Year, New Technologies
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by Jay Ankeney, 1.22.2003
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Ah, the first column of a New Year, burgeoning with potential. We're going to kick it off by looking at two new technologies I have been tracking recently that may offer significant benefits to the future of film and video production.
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