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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

Pushing Apple's new Mac Pro and FCPX to their limi

March 20, 2014, 07:45 AM

http://www.fcp.co/final-cut-pro/news/1372-pushing-...

The brief was simple, push the new Mac Pro and FCPX to the limit. Never mind 4k or 8K, we went large on everything until things broke. Alex Gollner and Peter Wiggins perform the ultimate stress test.

ARRI Alexa Update Adds 96fps DNxHD Support

March 19, 2014, 07:29 PM

http://www.studiodaily.com/2014/03/arri-alexa-upda...

ARRI released version 9.1 of the Alexa "software update packet" this week, adding DNxHD frame rates of up to 96fps to Alexa XT cameras as well as to Alexa Classic cameras with the XR Module upgrade. Exactly how fast you … more »

Why doing people favours can win you more work

March 19, 2014, 12:36 PM

http://www.creativebloq.com/career/favours-win-fre...

I never thought I'd ever be able to hack being a full-time freelancer. Doing your own accounts, chasing invoices, contracts, legalities, the elusive concept of quoting for a job - and that's all assuming you actually had work to quote for. Fresh out of university, I worked full-time at a desk in a small corporate production company. One of my colleagues was an ex-freelancer, and even the thought of it terrified me. I had this negative stigma that freelancers were essentially just lazy people - p...

Apple is Silicon Valley’s most valuable brand

March 19, 2014, 07:54 AM

http://www.slashgear.com/apple-is-silicon-valleys-...

Apple has the most expensive brand not just in the whole world but especially in its hometown of Silicon Valley. While that fact is probably already well-known, it is always good to have those backed up by numbers, or at least estimates in this case.

H.265 vs VP9: 4K video codecs explained

March 19, 2014, 07:54 AM

http://www.trustedreviews.com/opinions/h-265-vs-vp...

They are competing next generation video compression formats that claim to be twice as efficient as H.264, the current industry standard. They will be crucial in getting 4K ‘Ultra HD’ content to our televisions, PCs and tablets over the next few years. They also halve the file size of 720p and 1080p content making it far easier to download or stream HD video over slow connections.

ProRes Encoding on Windows Finally Feasible

March 18, 2014, 10:04 PM

http://www.creativeimpatience.com/prores-encoding-...

For quite some time one of the holy grails of multi-platform support has been the ability of encoding ProRes codecs on Windows. Or the lack thereof. True, there were makeshift solutions based on ffmpeg encoder that required either a knowledge of command line scripting or the use of other open … see more →

Adobe Creative Cloud Subscriptions Climb to 1.8 Mi

March 18, 2014, 10:04 PM

http://www.studiodaily.com/2014/03/adobe-creative-...

Adobe said Creative Cloud (CC) individual and team subscriptions grew to more than 1.8 million as of February 28, an increase of more than 405,000 from the previous quarter. During the first fiscal quarter ending February 28, the company said, … more »

NAB 2014: The Official Toolfarm Guide

March 18, 2014, 10:03 PM

http://www.toolfarm.com/blog/entry/nab_2014_pre_sh...

Here’s the rundown of what to see and do at NAB 2014, from booths not to miss to after hours party details.

8K Train Can't be Stopped

March 18, 2014, 10:02 PM

http://www.tvtechnology.com/news/0086/k-train-cant...

While U.S. broadcasters are wrestling with how and when to utilize 4K (aka Ultra High Definition or UHDTV) in their production workflows, or if at all, the Japanese broadcast industry is determined to move to a higher resolution level, namely 8K. That's 16 times the resolution of 1080-line HD, or 7680 × 4320 (33.1 megapixels, 12-bit processing). Uncompressed, an 8K 60fps image produces a data rate of about 24 Gbps.

Final Cut Pro X Performance Test

March 18, 2014, 10:02 PM

http://www.macprovideo.com/hub/final-cut/final-cut...

In a departure from our usual tutorials, today we’ll be taking a look at how fast FCP X can get on the latest equipment. We’ve got a new iMac, a new Mac Pro, and some older Macs too, and we’ll be putting them through their paces on real-world-ish 1080p and 4K workflows, all with 2 minutes of ProRes HQ source material sourced from the Blackmagic Production Camera 4K, used at original size (strictly speaking, 3840x2160) and also downscaled to 1080p.

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