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

What Next For Lightworks?

August 29, 2011, 05:17 PM

http://notesonvideo.blogspot.com/2011/08/what-next...

EditShare, the developers of Lightworks, the Open Source Video Editing Project, are promising a big announcement on September 8th at IBC in Amsterdam.

Blackmagic Design Now Shipping UltraStudio 3D

August 29, 2011, 05:16 PM

http://www.digitalproductionbuzz.com/2011/08/29/bl...

Blackmagic Design has announced the world's first video product with Thunderbolt technology. UltraStudio 3D, which allows portable capture and playback with full resolution dual stream 3D support, 10 bit hardware architecture, dual link 3 Gb/s SDI, support for up to 1080p60 in SDI and component analog and HDMI 1.4a connections, as well as full SD, HD and 2K support, is now shipping.

Digital Film Tools' Rays Sheds Light on Film

August 29, 2011, 05:15 PM

http://www.digitalproductionbuzz.com/2011/08/29/di...

Digital Film Tools, developer of visual effects software, has announced that their visual effects plug-in, Rays, has been updated to support popular video and film hosts. New supported hosts include Adobe After Effects CS5 and up, Premiere Pro CS5 and up, Apple Final Cut Pro 6, 7, and X, Motion 5, and Avid Symphony, Media Composer, Newscutter, and Xpress Pro. Shedding new light on film...

Digital Film Tools Rays Available for CS5, Avid

August 29, 2011, 05:14 PM

http://www.studiodaily.com/main/news/headlines/133...

Digital Film Tools' volumetric lighting effect plug-in Rays, formerly only available for Photoshop, Lightroom and Aperture, now works with the major nonlinear editing applications from Adobe, Avid and Apple, including Final Cut Pro X. Other popular volumetric effects plug-ins, like Red Giant's Trapcode Lux 1.2, work only in After Effects.

Blackmagic Design Ships Thunderbolt-Enabled...

August 29, 2011, 05:13 PM

http://www.studiodaily.com/main/news/headlines/133...

Blackmagic Design (Milpitas, CA) has started shipping UltraStudio 3D, its USD995 Thunderbolt-enabled portable capture and playback system for the Mac. As its name implies, the UltraStudio 3D, announced at this year's NAB, supports full-resolution dual-stream 3D — as well as interleaved, side-by-side, and frame-packed stereo 3D formats — via the unit's dual-link 3 Gb/s SDI ins and outs. The box also has HDMI 1.4a in and out, and a slew of other connections are available via breakout cable...

Why I Bought a Powermac G5 in 2011

August 29, 2011, 12:35 PM

http://darkroastpost.blogspot.com/2011/08/why-i-bo...

Power PC might be dead as far as a developer is concerned. But some of these machines have substantial productive usage. This is one of those "if it isn't broken..." moments where dropping an old piece of tech to the curb might be a little hasty.

90 minutes of FCPX

August 29, 2011, 11:53 AM

http://www.fcp.co/final-cut-pro/news/536-90-minute...

If you've got an hour and a half spare, grab a coffee and enjoy Alex Lindsay, Steve Martin and Mark Spencer talk about Final Cut Pro X. Packed full of FCPX information with an added bonus of how to make shot glasses out of CDs.

Sharpening Your Stills

August 29, 2011, 11:52 AM

http://www.larryjordan.biz/tips/tip265.html

Looking to add a bit of snap to a still image? Try using the Unsharp filter. Be cautious adding sharpening to your video--most inexpensive cameras already apply sharpening during recording to improve the apparent focus of an image by making the edges more visible.

Creating music with loops inside FCPX

August 29, 2011, 11:50 AM

http://www.fcp.co/final-cut-pro/tutorials/537-crea...

When we first saw this video we thought "Why would anyone want to make music in Final Cut Pro X?" Then after watching the tutorial we realised that FCPX has some pretty powerful audio tools built in.

Major Post Houses Choose S.two

August 29, 2011, 11:49 AM

http://www.btlnews.com/crafts/post-production/majo...

S.two announced that Deluxe, PostWorks NY and Technicolor Creative Services have acquired S.two FlashDock and FlashPort transfer stations and incorporated them into their workflows. S.two's workflow played a key role at PostWorks NY on Twilight Zones, a film by David Chase (Sopranos producer), as well at Technicolor for The Wedding, starring Robert DeNiro, and Deluxe for Mr. Popper’s Penguins.

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