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

Only Capture the Audio Tracks You Need

October 16, 2010, 09:28 AM

http://www.larryjordan.biz/tips/tip222.html

Select which audio tracks you capture or ingest. In both the Log & Capture window and the Log & Transfer window, you can specify which audio tracks you want to bring into Final Cut.

FCP Helpers

October 16, 2010, 09:20 AM

http://digitalfilms.wordpress.com/2010/10/16/fcp-h...

Apple Final Cut Pro is generally said to be an 80/20 application, trading off some niche features for a lower price. More often than not, this descriptor is meant in the negative. Avid editors using FCP frequently lament about media management, render files and so on when comparing FCP with Media Composer.

Preditor, The Hydra that Never Sleeps

October 15, 2010, 11:18 AM

http://www.elskid.com/blog/preditor-the-hydra-that...

One of the wonderful things about being on Twitter is that you get to exchange pleasantries with folks from all over the world without really bothering yourself with such banalities as time zones. After a while though you start to realise something pretty fundamental. No-one sleeps. Many of us are so-called Preditors, those people that do everything in production.

Avid Screencast #43: Audio Basics III

October 14, 2010, 09:54 AM

http://avidscreencast.com/2010/10/43-audio-basics-...

This week, we’ll make some very simple audio edits, create transitions, check out waveforms and get rid of those horrid pops that are sometimes created by audio edits. This is actually the first part of a show that was to include the audio mixer as well, but the episode just turned out to be way too long so I had to split it up into two parts.

Magic Bullet Suite 10’s new Denoiser plug-in

October 14, 2010, 09:51 AM

http://provideocoalition.com/index.php/ssimmons/st...

A few weeks ago Red Giant Software released update to the ever popular, ever useful Magic Bullet Suite. This new version 10 includes the most recent versions of many useful tools including Magic Bullet Looks, Frames, Grinder, Instant HD, Mojo, PhotoLooks and the recently updated Colorista II (which you can find a review of here). One tools that is now gone from the suite is Magic Bullet Steady but it’s been replaced by a new one: Magic Bullet Denoiser.

Problem Solver

October 14, 2010, 09:46 AM

http://www.macvideo.tv/blogs/index.cfm?entryid=324...

You got nowhere to turn other than your own know-how and a world of internet resources to help. This week I was cloning a drive, doing the essential back-up. Had the clone drive inside of a RAID case, set up JBOD - just a bunch of discs. This means each drive can be accessed individually. For some reason the clone wouldn?t work. Kept stopping, failing.

OS X 10.7 Announcement

October 14, 2010, 09:42 AM

http://www.philiphodgetts.com/2010/10/os-x-10-7-an...

OK, no-one has told me anything about next week’s OS announcement but, as it relates to QuickTime (and my expectation of a new footing with AVFoundation from iOS) here’s how the script might...

The Social Network's Image Experts

October 13, 2010, 11:23 AM

http://www.postmagazine.com/Publications/Post-Maga...

HOLLYWOOD — On one of the larger soundstages at Red Studios in Hollywood, Lightiron (www.lightirondigital.com) colorist Ian Vertovec is perched on a raised platform about 16 feet in the air at the center of the nearly empty space. He gently moves track balls on the Pablo's Neo control panel, adjusting the color timing for the David Fincher film The Social Network. On the far wall behind him is a Sony SRX-T420 4K projector. On the front wall is a 40-foot screen with an image from one of the...

Digitally Acquired TV Series

October 13, 2010, 11:22 AM

http://www.postmagazine.com/Publications/Post-Maga...

Although many TV series on the broadcast and cable networks still originate on film, digital acquisition of all types has boomed, impacting post production paths. "Post workflows for digital shows are settling in," says Nick Bradley, co-producer of the new FX series, Terriers. "Now it’s a matter of a DP finding the right camera that enables them to shoot like they did with film: capturing amazing images with lots of latitude while enjoying the bonuses you get on the back end in post."

When did video editors become prima donnas?

October 12, 2010, 07:25 PM

http://blogs.creativecow.net/blog/3608/when-did-vi...

Two weeks ago "30 Rock" had a story arc involving the video editors of the show and how scary it was to go down to them. They controlled the video and you didn't want to piss them off or else you might not get your stories cut. Over the top humor that I love about 30 Rock and really made me laugh. And then it made me think, "Editors aren't really prima donnas, are we?"

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