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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

A Bunch of Random Hard Drive Speed Tests

August 28, 2014, 03:36 PM

http://provideocoalition.com/ssimmons/story/a-bunc...

As a freelance editor I get a lot of hard drives sent to me with footage to edit. Usually all of that media is transferred off of those hard drives and onto a RAID for editing. Occasionally I might have a quick turnaround or just fixes on a project and I’ll cut right off the hard drive sent to me. The faster the drive the better for both of these tasks. I’ve been keeping a running log of hard drive speeds for the last few months and with the help of Blackmagic’s Disk Speed test I offer...

Google buys Zync cloud rendering platform

August 28, 2014, 12:20 PM

http://postperspective.com/google-buys-zync-cloud-...

The Zync cloud-based rendering service, which has been used on major films, including Flight, American Hustle, Transformers: Dark of the Moon and others, has been bought by Google. That’s right, Google. The platform, supporting software such as Maya, Nuke, V-Ray, Mental Ray and Arnold, was created about five years ago by the owners of Boston’s […]The post Google buys Zync cloud rendering platform appeared first on postPerspective - Randi Altman's postPerspective.

Why Avid is No. 1 in Hollywood

August 28, 2014, 12:20 PM

http://alex4d.com/notes/item/why-avid-is-no-1-in-h...

When Premiere and Final Cut users try to convince Avid editors that they are living in the past, they often don't understand the day-to-day experience of high-end TV and feature film post production. To provide an insight into why Avid is still number 1 in Hollywood, Chris Fenwick invited TV editor Austin Flack to talk on his Final Cut Pro X podcast: the FCPX Grill. If you don't have the time to listen to the whole 74 minute episode, here are my notes on what was said: [6:05] AF: I’...

Geoff Stedman on the evolving media storage landsc

August 28, 2014, 09:43 AM

http://postperspective.com/evolving-media-storage-...

Earlier this year, storage industry vet Geoff Stedman came on board as senior VP of Quantum’s StorNext solutions product portfolio. You might remember him from his many years at Omneon and then Harmonic after the company was acquired. He spent seven years in total there before deciding to try something new: a role as VP […]The post Geoff Stedman on the evolving media storage landscape appeared first on postPerspective - Randi Altman's postPerspective.

ioGates release version 4.6

August 28, 2014, 04:36 AM

http://www.redsharknews.com/post/item/1952-iogates...

ioGates have just released version 4.6 of their cloud-based video sharing and transcoding software with improved performance and new features iogatesCloudDistributioncollaborationsharing

8 TB drives now exist!

August 28, 2014, 04:35 AM

http://www.redsharknews.com/technology/item/1957-8...

"Big" seems almost an inadequate world to describe the new generation of drives. 8TBseagate8TB Drive8TB Drives

Quicktip: Optical Kerning preference in After Effe

August 28, 2014, 04:34 AM

http://provideocoalition.com/ryoung/story/quicktip...

Optical kerning is a newer feature in Adobe apps. If you have a tendency to forget about kerning, be sure to enable Optical kerning, even it means occasionally overriding a font's built-in kern tables.

Building An Instant Replay in FCPX

August 28, 2014, 04:34 AM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Twx77BR0jZE

http://www.larryjordan.biz - Final Cut Pro X provides a wide-variety of techniques to change the speed of a clip; from simple freeze frames to some really in...

Nearly 50% of Video Professionals in UK Never Saw

August 27, 2014, 04:13 PM

http://provideocoalition.com/jantunes/story/nearly...

Surveys never give us the complete truth, no matter how unbiased they are, but they somehow help us to understand things better. So, when a recent survey in  the United Kingdom that targeted the opinions of 100 senior production staff in the area of video, revealed that nearly 50% of them have never seen 4K played out on any kind of screen, one has to ask if 4K is really the next big thing.

Blackmagic Does Manhattan

August 27, 2014, 12:22 PM

http://filmmakermagazine.com/87320-blackmagic-does...

On August 13 the disruptive Australian company Blackmagic Design took over the Grand Ballroom at the historic New Yorker Hotel at 8th & 34th to showcase their growing stable of switchers, signal converters, encoders, routers, and test equipment along with their latest unorthodox production products: cameras, monitors, disk recorders, and grading/NLE software. Plus a new scanner for film transfer.

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