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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

Review: A Pocket NAS from Western Digital

November 4, 2014, 01:15 PM

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Launched to celebrate Western Digital’s 10 years of the My Passport brand, the new My Passport Wireless may not be the fastest or cheapest external drive around, but having a SD card slot makes all the difference for those on the move. There’s a lot of space for your files on this hard drive, which works a bit like a pocketable NAS or Network-Attached Storage. Or your own Cloud on wheels.

Mastering the Keyboard in Final Cut Pro X

November 4, 2014, 10:40 AM

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Can you edit without a mouse or trackpad? That's the challenge our guest Sam Mestman tackles this week with Ripple Training host Steve Martin. Executing commands with the keyboard is almost always faster than using a mouse or trackpad input device, so the more...

Keyboard speed in FCPX, adding smoke in Motion and

November 4, 2014, 10:39 AM

http://www.fcp.co/final-cut-pro/tutorials/1540-key...

This week Sam Mestman joins Steve Martin to look at keyboard speed with Final Cut Pro X. We also add some smoke to a picture in Motion and take the cheaper alternative to Photoshop for a spin with FCPX.

Copyright free did you say? Of course.

November 4, 2014, 10:39 AM

http://www.fcp.co/final-cut-pro/articles/1539-copy...

You would have thought that using any of the free Apple media such as music loops supplied with the Pro Applications, wouldn't raise any copyright issues. Wrong. A cautionary tale from Alex Snelling and a drumbeat that YouTube didn't like. 

SMPTE Time Code - Virtually Unchanged After Almost

November 4, 2014, 05:50 AM

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The more things change, the more they stay the same.  So goes the old proverb. SMPTE Time Code is like that.  While the entire production and post world around it has changed radically, time code has remained virtually the same.

My Top 5 Avid Media Composer shortcuts

November 3, 2014, 05:01 PM

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By Brady Betzel During my four years as an assistant editor and my two as an editor, almost all of my full-time editing work has been on the Avid Media Composer or Symphony. Over the years I have collected a few shortcuts that I love to use and wanted to share. I hope you find […]The post My Top 5 Avid Media Composer shortcuts appeared first on postPerspective - Randi Altman's postPerspective.

Editorial cookery: Artist vs Craftsman

November 3, 2014, 05:01 PM

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Professional chefs have more in common with editors than you might think. My wife was recently listening to the audiobook version of New York Times best-selling author Anthony Bourdain’s book Kitchen Confidential. It’s a fascinating and entertaining look into the world of chefs and high-end kitchens. One of Bourdain’s diatribes raged against line cooks and […]

My Digital Addiction

November 3, 2014, 05:00 PM

http://www.hdwarrior.co.uk/2014/11/04/my-digital-a...

I’ve had a very busy summer shooting a television documentary for Aljazeera English. I can now reveal that it is called My Digital Addiction and it is part of their new autumn Correspondent series. The channel gives each correspondent an opportunity to pitch a story for development into a feature documentary. The Correspondent Series is in it’s third season and this year, Aljazeera are premiering my documentary at the first in the series.

Aja’s Io XT Used on Filmage: The Story of Descen

November 3, 2014, 10:43 AM

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Filmage: The Story of Descendents/All began as a passion project for a group of creatives working at Dallas-based post house CharlieUniformTango (CUT), and quickly evolved into a full-fledged documentary production. Within four years, the film's directors Deedle LaCour and Matt Riggle, along with editors Justin Wilson and James Rayburn, had traveled the world, combining a love for old-school punk music with filmmaking skills to deliver an indie flick that recounts the history and influence ...

9 Tips for Stabilizing Handheld Footage

November 3, 2014, 10:42 AM

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Sometimes you just can’t shoot on a tripod. Heading to the set or into the field without a tripod? Getting beautiful handheld shots can be a difficult challenge – the recent influx of camera stabilizers and Steadicam equipment is a testament to that. Thinking out your approach to handheld shooting and taking several of the approaches listed below can significantly minimize camera shake.

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