Latest articles by Jay Ankeney
NAB Show Product Review: Monitors
There were monitors filled with eye candy all throughout the Las Vegas Convention Center.
NAB Show Product Review: Editing & Graphics
Like a baseball catcher facing a knuckle-ball pitcher, edit systems have to be ready to handle anything that gets thrown at them.
State of the Edit 2013
The survey of NLE representatives revealed a post production community that is aggressively tackling the challenges arising from rapidly evolving digital production technology.
Super Bowl Ads Gravitate to A Higher Level
It was the best of times, the worst of times, and a real puzzlement. The best was for Super Bowl XLVII MVP Joe Flacco, the worst was for whoever paid the lighting bill.
3D Lives!
Proclaiming “3D Is Dead!” has become a popular parlor game among broadcast and film industry pundits; so let me commit professional heresy by replying “Poppycock and Balderdash!”
New Editing Systems Upgrade for 4K
Last month we looked at three NLEs that can tackle a 4K workflow... This month and next we’ll look at a spectrum of other edit systems valiantly climbing the 4K summit.
Editors Take on the 4K Challenge
With quadruple the information of HD contained in the massive 4K files, it is going to be the editors who will be relied upon to realize the potential of this new production format.
Legend3D Steps Up 2D-to-3D
Walking into the facilities of Legend3D Inc. is like entering a darkened beehive that is buzzing with creativity.
2016 NAB Product Review: Monitors
As the Bard once said, “Displays the thing!” and at NAB Show 2016 monitors and displays provided windows into the souls of new technologies.
Cutting to Picture for Impact
Film editors have three great tools at their disposal: context, contrast and rhythm.
2017 State of the Edit: VR, 8K and IMF
What better way to welcome the New Year than by taking stock of the state of post production with insights from representatives of some of the leading NLE manufacturers?
NAB Show Product Preview: Monitors
For audiences, TV screens are a window on the world, but for attendees of NAB Show 2017, video monitors are a window on the latest display technology in our industry.
2015 NAB Editing & Graphics Review
The new technological introductions at the NAB Show are like spokes of a wheel, all leading to post production and editing.
State of the Edit, 2015
In this year’s annual “State of the Edit” survey, I asked representatives of most of the major NLE’s about today’s challenges facing editors and the post production community.
NAB 2015 Monitors Preview
Although 4K monitors will blossom all over the Las Vegas Convention Center, at the 2015 NAB Show, it’s as much about the quality of pixels as the amount of pixels.
Creating Different Concepts Of Reality Through Editing
Editors rejoice. Every year the Creative Arts Awards given out by the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences heralds the greatest achievement in our craft.
‘Drunk History’ Revives Oral Storytelling
Toward the beginning of “Honolulu” when Rodrigues was joshing with Waters about doing another whiskey shot and we heard his voice say, “Laugh with me.
