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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

2012 – A Look Back

December 31, 2012, 10:51 AM

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The end of a year is a good time to look back and reflect on changes over the last twelve months, which is how this blog starts. Then, I included some of your comments.

High Frames Drifter

December 30, 2012, 03:32 PM

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Is the truth any truer at 48 frames per second? ? Like virtually everyone else in the film blogosphere, I’ve been to see The Hobbit recently in its High Frame Rate (HFR) presentation and, like everyone else, I feel drawn to offer my assessment of the new technology, especially since it raises some important questions...

Hard Drive Basics

December 30, 2012, 03:31 PM

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Storage is critical to all media editing and I’ve written a lot about it. So much so, that it is hard to find where to start and which articles are important to read. To help, I’ve collected the important ones here and added short descriptions. Read the first four articles before you spend more money on storage.

Transitioning to an Adobe Workflow...

December 30, 2012, 10:28 AM

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I was a FCP Editor/Trainer for 10 years. Since FCP X replaced FCP 7 I have been transitioning to an Adobe workflow. Like myself, a lot of former FCP editors are trying out Adobe's Production Premium (equivalent to FCP Studio) or the new Creative Cloud subscription model. In this article I'll look at using Adobe Prelude from a former FCP user's perspective.

#workflow#adobe#cs6#premiere pro#nle
MC6 Lesson 42: The Marquee Title Tool 4

December 30, 2012, 10:25 AM

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Path Text Animation: In this lesson, Kevin P McAuliffe shows you how to animate text on a path, and also a couple of tricks to spice up your animation once it's back in the Symphony interface.

#avid#media composer#mc6#nle
MC6 Lesson 41: The Marquee Title Tool 3

December 30, 2012, 10:23 AM

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Basic Animation and Rendering: In this lesson, Kevin P McAuliffe talks about basic animating in Marquee, and shows you why it's better to do your animation there, as opposed to doing it in the 3D Warp tool. He also discusses rendering/saving out your titles, and how simple it is, so you're back up and editing in no time flat!

#avid#media composer#mc6#nle
When to Scale to Frame Size in CS6

December 29, 2012, 04:41 PM

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For those of you coming to Premiere Pro from FCP7, there is a similar preference in Premiere Pro called "scale to frame size". However, there is one notable difference. In FCP7, when you insert a clip into a timeline, the clip is automatically scaled to the dimensions of the sequence, and the scale percentage is automatically set in the Motion tab.

#adobe#cs6#nle
Passport Enterprise 500GB Portable HD

December 28, 2012, 08:03 PM

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The WD My Passport Enterprise is a 500GB portable hard drive designed to be used with Windows To Go. The My Passport Enterprise is the only hard drive certified for Windows To Go, giving users a capacious 500GB of storage space for their portable Windows experience. WD includes the Compass utility for easy configuration, providing users with a secure and portable Windows environment, with no trace of files left on the host system.

#passport
VLC for Windows 8

December 28, 2012, 02:23 PM

http://www.lockergnome.com/news/2012/12/28/vlc-for...

One would think that introducing a new VLC for Windows 8 would be no huge deal. Unfortunately for users of Windows 8 RT with an Intel processor, support is not available. Over at Kickstarter, a company by the name of VideoLAN is preparing to solve this problem. According to VideoLAN, its software is open source and will run within the User Experience and will eventually support the ARM processor.

#windows#vlc#8
FCPX: How to Get Better Encoding Results

December 28, 2012, 02:22 PM

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When you compress video for on-demand streaming, you primarily care about three things; quality, quality and… let’s see, oh yes, quality. If you’re been encoding H.264 video with Apple Compressor using the codec that Apple provides, you definitely haven’t been optimizing the quality of your video.

#encoding#fcpx#final cut pro x

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