ABOUT US
Whale of a Tale Production's is a small Post Production Company based in Hollywood, CA. The company was started by Jonah Lee Walker in 2002 when he began working as a freelance video editor on the Lord of the Rings Special Edition DVD's.
Whale of a Tale currently has a MacPro 2x2.26 GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon with 24 GB's of RAM, with over 4 TB's of Hard Drive space, and Final Cut Studio 3.0, a Canon HV20 HDV Camera, a Sony DVCAM DSR-20 Deck and Sony NTSC 16x9 Monitor.
Jonah is a skilled Editor with years of experience in both Avid Media Composer and Final Cut Pro (and owns a copy of Final Cut Studio 3.0).
Jonah also owns and is skiled in Adobe After Effects CS5, 3D Invigirator Pro (allowing 3D text and Logos in After Effects Compositions), Primatte Keyer (for difficult green screen pulls), Magic Bullet Suite 2009.2, Magic Bullet Colorista 2 (the best 3 way color correction plug in on the market), Adobe Photoshop CS5, Adobe Illustrator CS 5, Synthetik Studio Artist 4.0 (for creating Rotoscope like Animated projects from live action footage), Apple Color (for advanced color correction needs), Apple Motion, Apple Soundtrack and Apple Shake (the gold standard compositing package before Nuke was released).
Jonah is skilled in graphics creation and in green screen compositing, and is always learning new software packages to help him in his work.
Jonah Lee Walker is a Marthas Vineyard, Massachusetts Native who graduate with an Bachelor's degree in Cinema and Television Production from University of Southern California Film school in 1996, Jonah Lee Walker has been working as a professional editor and After Effects artist since 2002 when he began working on the LORD OF THE RINGS: THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING EXTENDED EDITION DVD, and continued on to work on all 3 film's in the Trilogy.
He worked on Peter Jackson's KING KONG SPECIAL EDITION DVD, including traveling to New Zealand, and setting an editing workflow to facilitate the web documentaries at Kong is King as well as editing a couple of the documentaries himself.
He has also done DVD documentary editing for Deluxe Digital Studios in Burbank working on AVID Media Composer on Merridian systems, most recently editing and doing all the Green Screen work for the Behind the Scenes featurettes on Werner Herzog's latest release, RESCUE DAWN, and has also worked on the SAW and Ferngully Special Edition DVD's, The Pebble and The Penguin, The Wood, The Secret of NIMH and Borderland, as well as doing graphics for the SAW 3 DVD and working on a graphics heavy sizzle real for Deluxe Creative.
Jonah worked on the Blue Ray Special Editions of HAIRSPRAY and the Messenger at Automat Pictures for Producers Jeffrey Schwarz and Katy Leigh, as well as other products like Spectacular Spiderman, Sex and the City the Movie and graphics for the Stars Documentary In The Gutter.
For the last few years Jonah has had extensive experience working in Direct Response. He has gained a great deal of experience working with such companies as Hawthorne Direct, Raymond Entertainment, Beach Body and 3 and 2 Films. He can do both graphics (except 3D) and editing and specializes in doing Call to Actions.
Jonah also edited for BET on the reality show REMIX as well asCharlotte's Web EPK material for Serena Yang Productions.
Jonah has also done work as a consultant for HD production, and as a Macintosh Technical consultant, as well as serving as a Special Effects coordinator and Shake Artist for the music video "Devils' Drink" for the band The Idaho Falls with director Tara Veneruso.
Jonah has also done After Effects title sequences for the Borderland Documentary and the Up In Smoke Documentary (which also included Lower Thirds), and extensive green screen work on the aforementioned Rescue Dawn DVD.
Previous to his work as editor, Jonah worked as a Multimedia Producer, dealing with video, and video compression for Warner Bros. New Media, giving him extensive knowledge of web and DVD compression techniques, as well as a solid grounding in Final Cut Pro and Applescript.
Before working at Warner Bros. Jonah worked in Commercial Production, first as a Production Assistant, and then for a couple of years as a Production Coordinator, learning all the necessary skill of organization, budgeting and scheduling necessary to commercial production, giving him an advantage as a leader and team player when working at any editing company.
Jonah is a total tech head, especially when it comes to Macintosh Computers, and Digital Video editing. He spends much of his free time learning all he can about the latest Video software, and is always reading and keeping up with the latest technology.
Jonah has also served as a panelist for the IFP Los Angeles Digital Seminar, for a discussion of Desktop Digital Effects in 2004, and more recently was a speaker at a Colloquium for the University of Central Florida, Summer Film Internship Program in Conjunction with UCLA with Professor Robert Jones.
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Jonah's Latest Editing and Graphic Design Resume, and my Direct Response Resume.
ABOUT US
Whale of a Tale Production's is a small Post Production Company based in Hollywood, CA. The company was started by Jonah Lee Walker in 2002 when he began working as a freelance video editor on the Lord of the Rings Special Edition DVD's.
Whale of a Tale currently has a MacPro 2x2.26 GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon with 24 GB's of RAM, with over 4 TB's of Hard Drive space, and Final Cut Studio 3.0, a Canon HV20 HDV Camera, a Sony DVCAM DSR-20 Deck and Sony NTSC 16x9 Monitor.
Jonah is a skilled Editor with years of experience in both Avid Media Composer and Final Cut Pro (and owns a copy of Final Cut Studio 3.0).
Jonah also owns and is skiled in Adobe After Effects CS5, 3D Invigirator Pro (allowing 3D text and Logos in After Effects Compositions), Primatte Keyer (for difficult green screen pulls), Magic Bullet Suite 2009.2, Magic Bullet Colorista 2 (the best 3 way color correction plug in on the market), Adobe Photoshop CS5, Adobe Illustrator CS 5, Synthetik Studio Artist 4.0 (for creating Rotoscope like Animated projects from live action footage), Apple Color (for advanced color correction needs), Apple Motion, Apple Soundtrack and Apple Shake (the gold standard compositing package before Nuke was released).
Jonah is skilled in graphics creation and in green screen compositing, and is always learning new software packages to help him in his work.
Jonah Lee Walker is a Marthas Vineyard, Massachusetts Native who graduate with an Bachelor's degree in Cinema and Television Production from University of Southern California Film school in 1996, Jonah Lee Walker has been working as a professional editor and After Effects artist since 2002 when he began working on the LORD OF THE RINGS: THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING EXTENDED EDITION DVD, and continued on to work on all 3 film's in the Trilogy.
He worked on Peter Jackson's KING KONG SPECIAL EDITION DVD, including traveling to New Zealand, and setting an editing workflow to facilitate the web documentaries at Kong is King as well as editing a couple of the documentaries himself.
He has also done DVD documentary editing for Deluxe Digital Studios in Burbank working on AVID Media Composer on Merridian systems, most recently editing and doing all the Green Screen work for the Behind the Scenes featurettes on Werner Herzog's latest release, RESCUE DAWN, and has also worked on the SAW and Ferngully Special Edition DVD's, The Pebble and The Penguin, The Wood, The Secret of NIMH and Borderland, as well as doing graphics for the SAW 3 DVD and working on a graphics heavy sizzle real for Deluxe Creative.
Jonah worked on the Blue Ray Special Editions of HAIRSPRAY and the Messenger at Automat Pictures for Producers Jeffrey Schwarz and Katy Leigh, as well as other products like Spectacular Spiderman, Sex and the City the Movie and graphics for the Stars Documentary In The Gutter.
For the last few years Jonah has had extensive experience working in Direct Response. He has gained a great deal of experience working with such companies as Hawthorne Direct, Raymond Entertainment, Beach Body and 3 and 2 Films. He can do both graphics (except 3D) and editing and specializes in doing Call to Actions.
Jonah also edited for BET on the reality show REMIX as well asCharlotte's Web EPK material for Serena Yang Productions.
Jonah has also done work as a consultant for HD production, and as a Macintosh Technical consultant, as well as serving as a Special Effects coordinator and Shake Artist for the music video "Devils' Drink" for the band The Idaho Falls with director Tara Veneruso.
Jonah has also done After Effects title sequences for the Borderland Documentary and the Up In Smoke Documentary (which also included Lower Thirds), and extensive green screen work on the aforementioned Rescue Dawn DVD.
Previous to his work as editor, Jonah worked as a Multimedia Producer, dealing with video, and video compression for Warner Bros. New Media, giving him extensive knowledge of web and DVD compression techniques, as well as a solid grounding in Final Cut Pro and Applescript.
Before working at Warner Bros. Jonah worked in Commercial Production, first as a Production Assistant, and then for a couple of years as a Production Coordinator, learning all the necessary skill of organization, budgeting and scheduling necessary to commercial production, giving him an advantage as a leader and team player when working at any editing company.
Jonah is a total tech head, especially when it comes to Macintosh Computers, and Digital Video editing. He spends much of his free time learning all he can about the latest Video software, and is always reading and keeping up with the latest technology.
Jonah has also served as a panelist for the IFP Los Angeles Digital Seminar, for a discussion of Desktop Digital Effects in 2004, and more recently was a speaker at a Colloquium for the University of Central Florida, Summer Film Internship Program in Conjunction with UCLA with Professor Robert Jones.
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Jonah's Latest Editing and Graphic Design Resume, and my Direct Response Resume.