How Animated Movies Are Edited (featuring Batman)

Editor Andy Young presents informative & hilarious takes on how he utilized Adobe Productions for Premiere Pro to edit the feature animation, Merry Little Batman. It’s a must-watch if you are an editor aspiring to edit animations like yours truly.

I’m little surprised that he didn’t mention other Adobe programs like Photoshop or After Effects, that are often cited as another strong consideration to edit in Premiere Pro, thanks to Dynamic Link.

However, his interview on editing Harley Quinn season 3 do mention them, so he may have left that out in this presentation to focus on the editing parts.

What Does an Animatic Editor Do?

I had a feel for the animatic editing when I worked on South Park promos and a Futurama (video!) podcast. I hope that I get to edit an animation project one day.


Here’s nice complimentary video about editing an animated film.

Here's a question you may never have thought about before: what does an animation editor actually do? If scenes are just written and then animated, is their ...

Bringing 4K and HDR to Anime at Netflix with Sol Levante

“you might be surprised to read that Japanese broadcasters set the color temperature at 9300K, much bluer than the 6500K that dominates as a standard elsewhere in the world. In fact, many of the licensed anime shows on Netflix were converted to D65 BT.1886 at the very end of post production to meet our spec and look accurate on our streaming service — as the creatives intended!”


An informative introduction to Japanese anime production and post-production from Netflix.