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
October 14, 2015, 12:47 PM
https://www.aotg.com/filmonomics-the-catch-22-of-originality/
Film audiences crave originality - or at least a fresh take - and so it seems do movie distributors. And yet film financiers tend towards the tried and tested. They want to back name actors, proven concepts and known quantities. We hear from two leading sales agents how they go about resolving that eternal contradiction.
October 13, 2015, 05:09 AM
https://www.aotg.com/faster-editing-with-the-clip-skimmer/
In this episode, Mark shows us some ways to make faster edits using the Final Cut Pro X's Clip Skimmer. Unlike the Timeline Skimmer, the Clip Skimmer allows you to target your edits to whatever frame your mouse pointer is over.
October 12, 2015, 12:36 PM
https://www.aotg.com/fx-factory-gateway-to-amazing/
http://www.larryjordan.com - There’s nothing more fun than discovering a new plug-in that helps you work faster, create unusual effects, or solve a nagging problem. In our recent "Useful Plugins for Final Cut Pro X" webinar, Larry showcases the hundreds of fun, new and useful plug-ins contained in FX Factory, from Noise Industries. In this short video tutorial, excerpted from our “Useful Plugins for Final Cut Pro X” webinar, Larry illustrates the FX Factory interface, shows how to...
October 9, 2015, 05:59 AM
https://www.aotg.com/our-36-core-video-rendering-server-finally-exp/
Our workflow has improved by leaps and bounds over the past few months.
October 9, 2015, 05:57 AM
https://www.aotg.com/fcpx-killer-features-paste-attributes/
Paste Attributes is a great time saving feature in Final Cut Pro X, which lets you selectively copy the settings from one clip and then paste the settings to another clip. This can be used for Color Correction settings, Transform, Crop Distort and also Audio controls.
October 8, 2015, 07:07 PM
A side-by-side comparison of the same scene from both movie versions of THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO (2009 by Niels Arden Oplev and 2011 by David Fincher). Video essay by Kevin B. Lee.
October 8, 2015, 01:32 PM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_knO2m6olLU
“Knife in the Water” is a 1962 Polish drama film co-written and directed by Roman Polański, which was nominated for Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. It is Polanski's first feature film, featuring three characters in a story of rivalry and sexual tension. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knife_in_the_Water Kanawha Films Ltd (1962) Jeff Wolf, ACE, worked with director Ted Demme on “The Ref,” “Beautiful Girls,” “Monument Avenue” and “Life.” He also edite...
October 6, 2015, 05:24 AM
https://www.aotg.com/wes-plate-shows-automatic-duck-ximport-ae/
Wes Plate from Automatic Duck showed Ximport AE, a new translation plug-in for After Effects that imports FCPX XML, bridging the divide between Final Cut Pro X and Adobe After Effects. Ximport AE brings Automatic Duck's years of expertise in timeline translation to FCPX users looking to work together with After Effects.
October 1, 2015, 11:30 AM
https://www.aotg.com/editing-creating-the-oh-fk-moment/
In this video, Director/Editor Joey Scoma walks us through a few classic scenes in cinema that demonstrate editing as an effective storytelling tool, and focuses in on a specific technique that he likes to call “The “Oh F**K” Moment.”
September 28, 2015, 12:31 PM
http://blogs.nppa.org/editfoundry/2015/09/28/editi...
When you make your cut and move on to the next shot there are so many reasons to consider. Ask yourself these questions as you make decisions.
Daniel George McDonald sits down to discuss creating the finale for Cheer Season 2.
Gordon sits down with the editorial team of The Black Lady Sketch Show to discuss their approach to ...
Gordon sits down with Philip to discuss his work with Tyler Perry and his latest film A Madea Homeco...
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