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

Amsterdam SuperMeet less than a week away

September 8, 2010, 09:59 PM

http://www.scottsimmons.tv/blog/2010/09/08/amsterd...

If you’re heading to Amsterdam for IBC 2010 then you’ve probably got your plans well underway. This will be one of the big events for editors and post-production professionals as the 3rd Annual Amsterdam FCPUG SuperMeet will take place at the Grand Hotel Krasnapolsky.

Four-Frame Display

September 8, 2010, 01:27 PM

http://splicehere.org/2010/09/06/four-frame-displa...

When you drag clips around in the Media Composer timeline, the Composer window adjusts to show you what you’re doing. Instead of displaying the usual side-by-side images, it shows four frames: the A and B sides of the two cuts you’re adjusting as you drag. In some cases, this is super-slick and allows you to make quick and precise changes.

Matrox MXO2 Mini Just Might Be the Missing Link

September 8, 2010, 11:26 AM

http://www.studiodaily.com/blog/?p=4141

If you look down under the "Categories" listing on the left side of this blog you’ll see the "Useful Tools" category. This is a category that I have long used to post links to interesting software/hardware/products that look like they would be handy in the editor’s toolkit. The tools are usually software, sometimes hardware. On occasion it might be a website or web tool that might make our lives easier.

Some good examples of where the new world of media

September 8, 2010, 08:26 AM

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

I don’t normally post random links to videos, and you might think this isn’t worthy of a blog entry. But these two efforts are great examples of what creativity, stretching the boundaries of how we work and grocking the new tool sets can lead to. And this is just the beginning.

How stable is Final Cut Pro? Very.

September 7, 2010, 07:28 PM

http://blogs.creativecow.net/blog/3381/how-stable-...

As I've been on the Creative Cow Final Cut Pro forums about 9 years now, I have seen all manner of people whine and complain about stability issues with Final Cut Pro. Sometimes it's truly Apple breaking stuff or releasing versions of Quicktime or FCP before they're ready. But often, it's operator error / configuration error.

Davinci Resolve compared to Apple Color workflow

September 7, 2010, 11:02 AM

http://blogs.creativecow.net/blog/3378/davinci-res...

Today was Labor Day Holiday in the U.S. and instead of grilling outside, we took advantage of a nice quiet shop to really get into some Davinci Resolve testing. My buddy Ron Anderson volunteered to come over and show me the ropes. When a 30 year colorist offers to "show you the ropes" on a color enhancement software, you don't turn him down! He brought along a surprise too. David Catt was at the door and not...

Blackmagic Videohub Router

September 6, 2010, 09:45 PM

http://dylanreeve.com/videotv/2010/blackmagic-vide...

For a long time, if you had a small post-production facility, the only real option for routing video signals from place to place was to use a physical patch bay. Video routers were available, but very expensive and usually pretty large physically. While the technology has improved a little it wasn’t until a couple of years ago, when Blackmagic Design introduced their Videohub series of routers, that small facilities could look at installing one.

ASE Demystifying Codecs

September 6, 2010, 04:20 PM

http://www.artoftheguillotine.com/assocvideo.php

Australian Screen Editors presents "Demystifying Codecs", a seminar on video codecs by Chris Reynolds. This is part 1 of 12. Topics covered in this part include: Introduction, MPEG1, MPEG2, Windows Media, MPEG4, H264, Compression & Processing Power. Chris Reynolds is an editor at ActiveMotion. This event was held on 13 May 2009.

Philip Hodgetts on unsubstantiated conjecture

September 6, 2010, 03:02 PM

http://www.freshdv.com/2010/09/hodgetts-fcp-conjec...

Mac Soda wrote a blog post with a number of unsubstantiated claims concerning Final Cut Pro. It’s entitled Final Cut Studio: The Inside Scoop, but I find that title misleading. Basically the Mac Soda post said FCS 4 is coming soon (they say between 1/2011 and 4/2011), is awesome, and here are some of the changes. As a Final Cut Studio user, all that sounds good to me.

A Reply to Soda about FCP 4

September 6, 2010, 09:46 AM

http://www.philiphodgetts.com/2010/09/final-cut-st...

It’s highly unlikely that the next studio release will happen in early 2011, or even 2011. As I noted in the comments on the article, it seems very, very clear that the QuickTime we know will get a complete foundation change. Final Cut Studio would need many of those changes to be able to replicate Adobe’s Mercury Engine performance (along with the need to be 64 bit Cocoa and use Open CL and Grand Central Dispatch).

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