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

4 Steps to Edit Movie Trailers

February 22, 2011, 08:19 PM

http://www.steves-digicams.com/knowledge-center/ho...

Movie trailers can sometimes confuse the viewer because they may contain gaps in them that the filmmaker has left there, thinking that these will make sense to the viewer. However, if the viewer is not well informed about the movie, the gaps will only end up confusing him. As a filmmaker, you should know how to edit movie trailers so that those gaps make sense to all kinds of viewers. A good movie trailer must represent the overall tone of your movie. Here is a look at the steps that you will...

120hz Television "Smoothing" MUST DIE!!!

February 22, 2011, 04:22 PM

http://theeditdoctor.tumblr.com/post/3448926555/12...

For almost 20 years, filmmakers have been trying to make electronic image recording (non- film) actually LOOK like film... and now 120hz Television Smoothing f**'s it all up...

Add Virtual Cuts to Avid Clip Based on Tracks

February 22, 2011, 03:22 PM

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

Here’s a really cool Avid Media Composer Reader Quicktip that comes from Evan Schiff. It’s quite clever and I didn’t have a clue you could do this. It can come in handy if you ever have a piece of media that is a self-contained edit and you need to add edit points to that self-contained media that matches the original cut that’s still in your timeline. I could see using this after a color correction has come back for final finishing.

Beware of (Some) YouTube FCP Tutorial Videos

February 22, 2011, 10:33 AM

http://www.studiodaily.com/blog/?p=5693

Just over a week ago I came across a YouTube Final Cut Pro tutorial about how to edit a music video. It popped up in my RSS feed, as the "tutorial" was embedded on a website. As one who often edits music videos and is always looking to pick up tips or a better way to do things, I clicked over to watch. What I saw was one of the biggest train wrecks of a FCP tutorial I’ve ever seen. Not just because it was badly produced but because a lot of what they were recommending...

Which ProRes quality level is Good Enough

February 22, 2011, 09:05 AM

http://provideocoalition.com/index.php/freshdv/sto...

So I wanted to share some personal findings after working heavily with DSLRs for about a year and a half now. I’ve been converting most of my DSLR footage to ProRes LT for post-production, and have found it to be a good size-to-quality happy medium. In most cases, my projects will end up on DVD, web, or some kind of Standard Definition delivery, so LT allows me to strike a quality compromise that tends to be invisible after output...

Attack of the Minis

February 21, 2011, 09:44 PM

http://www.philiphodgetts.com/2011/02/attack-of-th...

Light Peak is an interesting technology and one I want to see sooner rather than later. Essentially it’s one connector for all purposes: peripherals (storage, i/o), networking (short distances in first release, longer later) and a replacement for the connectors we use now (which will largely work with adapters. The only protocol that may not run over Light Peak is USB 3, but USB 1 & 2; FireWire 400/800, eSATA...

After Effects Free Video: Arranging Layers

February 21, 2011, 09:42 PM

http://provideocoalition.com/index.php/cmg_keyfram...

As we mentioned earlier, we’re creating a video training series based on our popular beginner’s book After Effects Apprentice, which progresses from "I haven’t used it before" through core skills including keyframing, masking, text animation, and 3D space to advanced techniques such as motion tracking, green screen, and expressions. The second course is based on the Basic Animation section of the book, where we guide you...

Add Virtual Cuts to a Clip Based on the Tracks

February 21, 2011, 02:41 PM

http://www.evanschiff.com/bd/articles/add-virtual-...

Ever needed to add cuts to a clip at the edit points of each shot inside that clip? Yeah, me too. I’m sure this has uses outside of the feature film world, but since features are what I know, I’ll explain this using an example from doing a DI.

Beaten by the company who works for free

February 21, 2011, 02:29 PM

http://www.macvideo.tv/blogs/index.cfm?entryid=326...

Quoted on a job in the last week. A good deal for the client, a good job for me. I was tentatively booked and asked to find someone else to do second camera. Everything lined up, ready to move on the job.

Sony Vegas Pro 10 Mini Review

February 21, 2011, 02:26 PM

http://www.videoguys.com/Blog/PL/0xe9e511956a5c362...

I’m going to do something I don’t think I’ve ever done before. I am going to highly recommend a program that runs only on Windows. In fact, I am going to recommend a program that’s so good, I bought an HP laptop running Windows 7 JUST so I could run Sony VEGAS’ Professional NLE. Nobody is more shocked than me.

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