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

jumP LA Cuts Better, Stronger, Smarter Spot

May 22, 2012, 09:30 PM

http://www.creativeplanetnetwork.com/the_wire/2012...

The crossover vehicle is still trying to figure itself out – is it a large car? A small SUV? Something in between? jumP LA Editor Patrick Griffin, working with Smuggler Director Filip Engstrom and The Mill, tackles this riddle in a humorous and engaging story of a spot introducing Mazda's new CX-5 crossover.

We've Come a Long Way

May 22, 2012, 09:29 PM

https://www.editorsguild.com/magazine.cfm?ArticleI...

On behalf of the Board of Directors and all the staff of the Motion Picture Editors Guild, I want to wish the entire membership a very happy 75th anniversary. On May 20, 2012, we mark the official day of the founding of the Society of Motion Picture Film Editors, which would become the Motion Picture Editors Guild.

TECH TIPS: From Avid to Zoopraxiscope

May 22, 2012, 09:28 PM

https://www.editorsguild.com/magazine.cfm?ArticleI...

The 75th anniversary of the Editors Guild presents the perfect opportunity to look back at the fascinating history of the tools and techniques behind the editing of motion pictures and television, as well as to look at where we are in the present.

Top 75 Picture Editors

May 22, 2012, 09:27 PM

https://www.editorsguild.com/magazine.cfm?ArticleI...

Thirty-five years ago, our colleagues at the prestigious film journal Film Comment in New York published special 24-page section celebrating film editors...

Tiffen update their digital filter suite

May 22, 2012, 09:26 PM

http://www.fcp.co/final-cut-pro/news/831-tiffen-up...

We're pretty sure we've used the London bus analogy here on FCP.co before, but products from different manufacturers do seem to be released in batches. This time it's Tiffen with an FCPX friendly upgrade to their award winning pack of filters.

The Best Edited Films: By the Numbers

May 22, 2012, 09:24 PM

https://www.editorsguild.com/magazine.cfm?ArticleI...

The 75 Best Edited Films' years of release range from the 1920s to the 2010s — with 3 titles each in both of those decades. Most of the films cited are from the 1970s...

Compositing with greenscreen in FCPX

May 22, 2012, 09:23 PM

http://www.fcp.co/final-cut-pro/tutorials/830-comp...

In this new episode of MacBreak Studio, Mark Spencer and Steve Martin talk about basic compositing in FCPX. You might not have a send to Motion feature, so can great greenscreen compositing be done directly in Final Cut Pro X?

Editorial Patriarch

May 22, 2012, 09:22 PM

https://www.editorsguild.com/magazine.cfm?ArticleI...

To those who knew him best, film editor Philip Cahn, who was born June 18, 1894, in New York City, was not a rabble-rousing sort. As his grandson, editor Daniel Cahn, A.C.E., remembers, "He always wore a hat. He always wore a tie. Casual for him was the hat, the tie, the slacks — but without the jacket! He always came across as a very gentle, quiet, low-key and subtle human being. As I got to work in the business in the 1970s, I would meet people who had worked with my grandfather and they wou...

A Guide to Mastering Your Video Projects

May 22, 2012, 09:21 PM

http://www.creativeplanetnetwork.com/tags/sound-pr...

The last step in commercial music production is mastering, which typically involves making a recording sound as good as it possibly can through the application of equalization and multiband compression. In the case of LPs and CDs (remember those?), mastering also includes setting up the flow from one tune to the next and balancing out levels so the entire product has a consistent sound. Video post has a similar phase, historically the responsibility of the finishing or online editor.

Keeping the Story Moving

May 22, 2012, 09:20 PM

https://www.editorsguild.com/magazine.cfm?ArticleI...

Picture editor Irving James Wilkinson has unfortunately become the most obscure of the three original founders of the Society of Motion Picture Film Editors (SMPFE). Many sources, including the Guild's own historical records (which were cited in the story on the beginnings of the SMPFE in the JAN-FEB 12 issue of this publication) had him confused with a similarly named contemporary, the sound editor James R. Wilkinson.

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