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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

There‘s more to UHD than pixels: BBC R&D on HDR

July 22, 2014, 01:38 PM

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Most people associate UHD with 4K - four times as many pixels. A more important aspect is a higher range of colour and brightness - High Dynamic Range Video. Recently BBC R&D took part in the European UHD standards workshop: Currently in stills photography, due to limitations in print and screen technologies, it is usual to utlilse a "tone-mapping" algorithm to create a lower dynamic range representation of an HDR image suitable for printing or viewing on a PC screen. These tone-mappin...

Apple's metadata propagation patent

July 22, 2014, 08:52 AM

http://alex4d.com/notes/item/apple-s-metadata-prop...

Apple has been awarded a patent that says that metadata propagation rules can be included with video files. That means you could pass on a video file with metadata that would be available to an editor but not exported when the generate new content based on the files you sent them: Some embodiments provide a method for processing metadata associated with digital video in a multi-state video computer readable medium. The method specifies a set of rules for propagating the metadata between d...

MacBreak Studio: Final Cut Pro X Used Media Ranges

July 22, 2014, 08:52 AM

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This week's MacBreak Studio video shows how much more you can do in Final Cut Pro X 10.1.2 with media that is used in the current project and media not yet used in the current project. While it's great to be able to quickly filter browser clips in this way, the real power of this feature comes into play in the Filter HUD. This is the 102nd free Final Cut Pro X tutorial video from Mark Spencer and Steve Martin of Ripple Training. My YouTube list of all 102.  

Adobe Takes On Its Own Disruption

July 22, 2014, 08:52 AM

http://blogs.adobe.com/conversations/2014/07/adobe...

Adobe is about to release a few app explorations — very simple creative tools — that we’re putting together in the research labs here. The idea around these new Adobe Labs initiatives was to embed a small crew of entrepreneurs into our research labs, treat them like a start-up, and let them develop prototypes for products and explore new markets. More importantly, these products are an effort to probe different paths for disruptive innovation for the next generation of creative produc...

Finding Unused Clips in Final Cut Pro X

July 22, 2014, 08:50 AM

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  Did I use that clip already? Continuing their exploration of new features introduced in the 10.1.2 update to Final Cut Pro X, this week on MacBreak Studio Steve Martin and Mark Spencer from Ripple Training demonstrate the expanded capacity to filter and build...

How Do We Compare?

July 21, 2014, 12:29 PM

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Our company like many others are adapting to a new world of technology enabled consumers who are doing more research and purchasing online than ever before. I created the media/communications benchmarking survey to see where other organizations are at in terms of size, structure, positions, and hopefully to get some indicator of what their future structures or growth areas might look like. Guest Blogger Steve Tingley Media Center Director Read More

Apple is also in the Content Creation Business

July 21, 2014, 12:29 PM

http://www.philiphodgetts.com/2014/07/apple-is-als...

People know about Netflix or Amazon's efforts but Apple?

The Evolution of IMAX

July 21, 2014, 09:38 AM

http://www.broadcastbeat.com/index.php/evolution-i...

Since the creation of the cinematic medium, a multitude of attempts have been made to make the spectacle even grander; some of these attempts were successful, such as adding sound and color; and many of the attempts were not (like Percepto and Smell-o-vision/Scent-o-rama and the like). The 1967 International and Universal Exposition (Expo ‘67) in […]

Is 4K a missed opportunity? The EBU thinks so

July 21, 2014, 04:26 AM

http://www.redsharknews.com/technology/item/1850-i...

The EBU has issued a statement saying that, while it notes the growing interest in UHDTV, it believes that by focussing on increased resolution alone the industry is not only missing an important opportunity but that 4K will be of limited success in broadcasting. EBU4KLegistlationUHDTV

Elgato Thunderbolt Dock

July 21, 2014, 04:25 AM

http://www.angietaylor.co.uk/2014/07/21/elgato-thu...

The Elgato Thunderbolt Dock really is a desk-changer! It’s not often I write blog posts about hardware but this little gadget has eased my worklife considerably over the past few weeks and I’d like to sing it’s praises, perhaps it … Continue reading →

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