Jay Ankeney

It can be lonely at the top. And, as Avid Technologies, the leading provider of nonlinear postproduction systems has learned, it can sometimes also be unprofitable. But now...

Hot enough for ya? Let's chill with a bit of post-production perspective.

It was 20 years ago today...

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.

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.

The 3D effect during the PepsiCo and Paramount DreamWorks spots may not have been perfect, but it was definitely clever.

3D is popping out all over in movies these days, and as usual, it is up to the post-production pros to ride herd on all the magic that is coming out of Z-space.

As much as music composition, classical painting or the eternal spirit of dance, editing is an art form in and of itself.

Increasingly, it's the video elements only tangentially relevant to passing the pigskin that are becoming the hits of the show.

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.