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

Avid Basics for FCP Users

December 26, 2009, 06:01 AM

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

Continuing on an article in the last Pro Video Coalition newsletter, The Basics of Avid Media Composer for a Final Cut Pro Editor, this article will look at a number of other functions and how they differ from Final Cut Pro to Media Composer. One of the main reasons why I’m writing these articles is that Avid offers a free, full-featured demo of Avid Media Composer 4 available for download. When I wrote the first piece that demo was only for 14 days.

Back up Tapeless Media

December 26, 2009, 05:59 AM

http://neilsadwelkar.blogspot.com/2009/12/backup-f...

Many film-makers have begun to shoot on tapeless media. XDCam Ex, P2, video on DSLRs, Red, AVCHD, hard disk camcorders, and such like. So, naturally, where they would store tapes in a cupboard, they now have all their 'rushes' as digital video files sitting on hard disks.

Simmons Wishes Happy Holidays

December 25, 2009, 05:56 AM

http://www.scottsimmons.tv/blog/2009/12/24/have-a-...

Check out Scott Simmons Holiday Message to his readers!

Yeah, Tapes are Infallible, Right...

December 24, 2009, 05:54 AM

http://lfhd.net/2009/12/23/yeah-tapes-are-infallib...

One argument I hear against tapeless formats OVER AND OVER again is, to paraphrase, "tapes are infallible. You can’t accidentally delete a clip from a tape. Having a PHYSICAL tape in your hand makes you sure you have the footage and it is there, and usable, and I can see it YEARS from now."

Obscure Faces

December 24, 2009, 05:53 AM

http://avidscreencast.com/2009/12/10-obscure-faces...

Sometimes, you need to obscure the face of a person, be it for legal or aesthetic reasons. In this episode, we’ll do just that using a very special technique.

Avid Screencast - Red Workflow II

December 23, 2009, 05:49 AM

http://avidscreencast.com/2009/12/09-red-workflow-...

This is the second of several episodes covering a workflow for using Red Digital Cinema Cameras with your Avid editing application. In this episode, we’ll take a sequence that was offline edited in Avid Media Composer and onform it to 4K DPX files for grading. For this, we’ll use Monkey Extract. Sorry for being late with this one, but I was not at home and couldn’t remote into my computer to upload the podcast. My bad.

Ramy Katrib: Founder and CEO, Digitalfilm Tree

December 21, 2009, 05:45 AM

http://www.macvideo.tv/editing/interviews/index.cf...

When FCP hit the world back in 1999 the program was regarded as a video editing application. For those wishing to work with film, and match the negative to the edit produced within Final Cut, this was a formidable challenge. Those at a Los Angeles based edit facility known as DigitalFilm Tree were pioneers who broke through the wall of expensive post production and made film editing using FCP possible. Ramy Katrib, Founder and CEO of DigitalFilm Tree, was instrumental in making this happen...

Digital Tree, Hollywood

December 21, 2009, 05:44 AM

http://www.macvideo.tv/editing/features/index.cfm?...

When Walter Murch was investigating using Final Cut Pro to edit Cold Mountain, he and his assistant, Sean Cullen, visited a Los Angeles post facility known as DigitalFilm Tree to see what was possible. This resulted in a $999 piece of software being used to edit an eighty million dollar feature film.

Editors Guild New Board Members

December 20, 2009, 05:43 AM

https://www.editorsguild.com/FromTheGuild.cfm?From...

The Motion Picture Editors Guild has announced their new board member line up. Their board includes editors Maysie Hoy, Pam Wise and John Lafferty. It also has Assistant editors, sound editors and more. Check out the editors guild site to find out more!

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