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To The Aotg.com Community,

It is with a heavy heart that we announce we will no longer be updating Aotg.com. Back in 2007, when we started, there was a lack of access to information about film, television, and commercial editing. We wanted to fix that by creating a central location for content about editing to be stored.

Since then, we've watched the amount of content about editing on the internet grow exponentially. We've also watched social media tools come and go with that growth. Does anyone remember Google Wave!? These social media tools changed how people access and search for media and information. People tend to turn to Facebook, Youtube, Twitter, and Instagram for their news and information, and those are all great tools to promote your sites, but as a site that aggregates links to other sites for users, it just doesn't work for us.

We will keep the site live but archive the ability to add links and comments. We will keep our database live with the links for those who desire to use it to search for editing information and research.

Our podcast, The Cutting Room, will move over to the Filmmakeru.com website and will continue to be a place for interviews with editors and other film professionals.

Everyone who worked for Aotg.com loved what we created and are proud that we could help so many editors find content that spoke to them.

I look forward to seeing everyone at the various post events worldwide in the coming years!

Yours truly,
Gordon Burkell
Aotg.com Founder

Autodesk Smoke 2013 Software

January 3, 2013, 09:27 AM

http://www.avnetwork.com/av-technology/0002/autode...

“Autodesk is committed to making high-end effects and 3D increasingly available to a new generation, and the new Smoke is case in point. The Smoke team has fielded thousands of inquiries and product recommendations in the process of developing Smoke 2013. I’m so excited to announce it’s here,” said Mark Strassman, Autodesk Media & Entertainment vice president strategy and marketing.

#autodesk#nle#post#smoke 2013
Contenders - Editors of Les Miserables

January 2, 2013, 01:24 PM

http://www.btlnews.com/awards/contenders-editors-c...

For the new movie version of the hit theatrical show Les Misérables, the filmmakers engaged in a rigorous 70-day shoot with musical sequences realized live on set. Aboard from the beginning was editor Chris Dickens who faced the technical challenges of cutting a production without the traditional method of editing a musical by syncing the music in post to lip-synced on-set shots performed to playback. 

Editing in the cloud

January 2, 2013, 01:16 PM

http://broadcastengineering.com/blog/editing-cloud

In the past, video editing has always been tied to a place, the edit bay. The Moviolas and Steenbecks of film were joined by linear tape editing suites. In the days of quad and C-format, these were large and very expensive. Non-linear editing, typified by Avid, transformed the process of editing video from a linear process to non-linear, much more like film editing. Even terms like “bins” were borrowed from film.

#editor#editing#cloud#film editing
Contender - Editor Jabez Olssen, The Hobbit

December 31, 2012, 11:00 AM

http://www.btlnews.com/awards/contender-editor-jab...

The challenge that Jabez Olssen faced in editing director Peter Jackson's The Hobbit was the immense scale of the production, which shot what will ultimately be three films over one extended 18-month shooting schedule.

Murch on the “Rule of 6″ and the Perfect Cut

December 29, 2012, 08:41 AM

http://filmmakermagazine.com/61389-walter-murch-di...

Those are two of six questions editor Walter Murch argues that editors must ask themselves for every cut. The other four? That’s the deep stuff. Watch the video to find out.

#film editor#film editing#cut#walter murch#murch#rule of six
Studio’s Top Stories of 2012: Part Two

December 28, 2012, 03:05 PM

http://www.studiodaily.com/2012/12/studios-top-sto...

One of my favorite tasks at the end of every year is digging into StudioDaily's analytics and tallying the pageviews for the most popular stories we published in the last 12-month period. The traffic stats always yield an interesting mix of content, from product reviews and case studies to NAB news and business stories. They reveal what we've been spending a lot of time thinking about in the last year and, sometimes, they reveal what we'll still be considering in the next one. Here's part 2...

#fcpx#final cut pro x#adobe#cs6#premiere pro#nle#apple
Read my article: on Editing at Pixar

December 28, 2012, 02:33 PM

http://www.bobbieosteen.com/wp-content/uploads/CEM...

Click here to read the article. (Downloadable PDF)

Review: G-Drive mobile hard drive features USB 3

December 27, 2012, 08:52 PM

http://www.macworld.com/article/2020987/review-g-d...

G-Technology’s G-Drive mobile is a portable, bus-powered external hard drive designed to compliment your Apple laptop. It has an attractive aluminum case, a three-year warranty, and boasts USB 3 and FireWire 800 connectivity. The drive comes formatted as HFS+, so it’s ready to use right out of the box with Macs new and old.

#hard drive#g-drive#hd#g-technology
Top Stories of 2012: Part One

December 27, 2012, 08:21 AM

http://www.studiodaily.com/2012/12/studios-top-sto...

One of my favorite tasks at the end of every year is digging into StudioDaily's analytics and tallying the pageviews for the most popular stories we published in the last 12-month period. The traffic stats always yield an interesting mix of content, from product reviews and case studies to NAB news and business stories.

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