Mike Yanovich ACE

Michael Yanovich was born in Medellin, Colombia. He is an editor, known for Waltzing with Brando, Don't Turn Out the Lights (2023) and Counting Crows: Butter Miracle Suite One (2021).

00:00 Intro
21:51 What do you think it will take for Avid to break its grip on high-end feature editing? Is Resolve rapidly catching up?
23:19 With the type of edits you have worked on, you pick a lot of music to score your edits….how do you think of music when editing?
24:54 Is the "blink of the audience eye" the enter key to the audience's brain as Walter Murch says? What have you discovered by studying another editor's work?
26:44 What is your overall editing philosophy?
27:19 The music video Humankind Big Dawgs has gone viral for the track, but even more for the video. Have you seen this video? Thoughts on this edit. Lyrics NSFW
29:30 The editor's work disappears as a function of their craft. What film or story has inspired you to become a better editor?
32:48 What makes your editing work more difficult?
34:29 How was it working with Jimmy Kimmel for 5 years?
35:12 When editing to music, do you usually work "intuitively" to the music or mark hit points in the NLE for specific points in the music?
36:32 Where do you go to find inspiration for new ideas?
41:26 Can you tell us the practical things you have learned to make an editing job go more smoothly?
42:27 If you were to send someone to college tomorrow to become an editor, would you tell them to take a Computer Science course (e.g. programming) or an Art History course (assuming you had to choose just 1)?
48:06 What's the worst "Horror story" you can think of that happened in the edit bay?
50:58 are you pressured to edit things ? and secondly do you edit things in a show based on experience with the producers etc ?
52:14 Where would you tell an absolute beginner to start on the path of being an editor? Software wise