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

Importance of Taking a Break from an Edit

July 18, 2012, 07:33 AM

http://ruschervisuals.com/importance-of-taking-a-b...

You have to love those projects you work on that you absolutely look forward to editing. The story that just comes together and you become glued to the monitor. It's awesome to be this passionate about anything but be sure to take a break here and there.

Video Metadata: Discoverability and More

July 18, 2012, 07:31 AM

http://www.onlinevideo.net/2012/07/video-metadata-...

Having excellent videos on your site isn't enough if people can’t find them. Think about it: search engines work by searching on text. To get them to understand what your videos are all about — and to index your videos in their rankings — you need to tell them.

CrumplePop and Red Giant join forces

July 18, 2012, 07:29 AM

http://fcp.co/final-cut-pro/news/881-crumplepop-an...

Two large names in the Final Cut Pro ecosystem have joined forces to release 'Carousel' a vintage looks plugin especially for FCPX. Vintage looks are all the rage, take the success of Instagram and Hipstamatic as indicators of how popular the process of making images look as if they were shot using old film cameras has become.

AE Basics 53: Motion Tracking Part 1

July 18, 2012, 07:26 AM

http://library.creativecow.net/devis_andrew/AE-Bas...

AE Basics - A Creative COW series for new users of Adobe After Effects. Lesson 53: In this tutorial, Andrew Devis starts to demonstrate how to use the point tracker in Adobe After Effects. Andrew shows how to set up the tracker and talks through some of the considerations that need to be taken into account to help get as good a track as possible.

Final Adobe Pro CS6

July 17, 2012, 09:13 PM

http://scruffythinking.com/thatpostshow/2012/7/17/...

On this special, bonus episode of That Post Show -- Adobe CS6 -- with Scott Simmons, Michael Scott and Mike J Nichols. We discuss moving from Final Cut Pro to Premiere, some After Effects CS6 and the rest of the Creative Cloud. Final Adobe Pro CS6...

Film editor Avis Hope Eckelberry dies

July 17, 2012, 09:11 PM

http://www.variety.com/article/VR1118056698.html

Avis Anne Hope Eckelberry, an editor on films "The Last Boy Scout," "Mr. Saturday Night," "Super Mario Brothers," "The Flintstones," "Cobb" and 'Forget Paris," died from complications relating to ovarian cancer in Los Angeles on Saturday. She was 56.

Frame of Reference with Editor Gordon Burkell

July 17, 2012, 09:10 PM

http://twainthestoryteller.wordpress.com/2012/07/1...

Today we get to go inside the head of Gordon Burkell. Gordon has worked in the film industry and as a film editor for 15 years. He started Art of the Guillotine in 2007 to help build a community for...

Premiere Pro CS6 Techniques: 67 Color 20

July 17, 2012, 09:08 PM

http://library.creativecow.net/devis_andrew/Premie...

In this tutorial, Andrew Devis starts by showing how to animate an effect from the 'generate' category of effects and then shows how to use 'blend modes' to blend a reasonably flat piece of footage with the animated effect below to give a little more life or interest to the shot.

Premiere Pro CS6: 68 Color 21: Blend Modes 2

July 17, 2012, 09:07 PM

http://library.creativecow.net/devis_andrew/Premie...

In this tutorial, Andrew Devis starts off by showing how to add and change a 'Lens Flare' and then how to use a colored gradient to colorize your footage for added interest. Andrew then goes on to show how to use the 'Cell Pattern' effect as a way to add gentle movement below an image to create more interest - because the eye is drawn to movement.

How to fix "Out of memory" error in FCP7

July 17, 2012, 09:05 PM

http://blog.youdownwithfcp.com/2012/07/17/how-to-f...

The dreaded "out of memory" error is caused by the fact that FCP 7 can only address 4 Gigs of ram. Those 4 Gigs are full of a lot of things other than cached files, so the actual number is even a bit smaller. The only thing that you can do to prevent the error is actually to use less memory. Thankfully, here are a bunch of tips on how to do that.

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