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

EDITOR'S NOTE Perfect Timing

November 27, 2011, 04:39 PM

https://www.editorsguild.com/magazine.cfm?ArticleI...

The Occupy Wall Street protest movement is continuously growing and expanding into cities worldwide, as is the news coverage of it. And it was not showing signs of letting up as this publication went to press in mid-October. Could director and J.C. Chandor and his team have asked for––let alone concocted or afforded––a better publicity campaign for the October 21 opening of their film Margin Call, a thriller involving the key people at a Wall Street...

Exporting Video - Alpha Channel from FCPX

November 27, 2011, 10:26 AM

http://www.premiumbeat.com/blog/exporting-video-wi...

For those unfamiliar, a very simple definition of an alpha channel is a "transparent" area of a video or still image (for the full technical definition check out the Wiki on "alpha compositing"). With regions of the frame removed you can layer graphics and footage, as well as place backgrounds behind your video.

End of November Rant

November 27, 2011, 10:24 AM

http://quintessential.posterous.com/end-of-novembe...

As we approach the end of November, 2011, and one of the fastest years to pass me by yet, I look back with fondness and desperation. It was a fun year definitely. My daughter just turned one; my son's three, for three months now. To watch their changes and contemplate their future is mind boggling. So quickly they grow and so much to look forward to.

Converting Media

November 27, 2011, 10:21 AM

http://www.larryjordan.biz/tips/tip355.html

Final Cut does not like compressed media. Here's how to convert it. Final Cut Pro was designed to work with original source media. It really doesn't like media that's been compressed. For instance, putting MP3 or AAC audio in Final Cut Pro's Timeline often results in audio with clicks, pops, and drop-outs.

AZFCPUG has added 2 new sponsors

November 27, 2011, 10:20 AM

http://azfcpug.org/2011/11/27/weve-added-2-new-spo...

We have 2 new sponsors to our users group. AJA Video Systems who attended our last meeting with an excellent presentation and Video2Brain, an online training service retailer who provides training videos for many of the software programs our users use. Please check out their respective websites and the products and services that they offer.

RE:Vision Effects Releases Twixtor 5 for Avid

November 26, 2011, 12:30 PM

http://magazine.creativecow.net/article/revision-e...

Software developer RE:Vision Effects just released Twixtor 5 plug-in for Avid Media Compser, Symphony and NewsCutter, including 64-bit support for Media Composer 6, Symphony 6 and NewsCutter 10. That will make Twixtor's slow motion shots - achieved quickly and at a high image quality - available to Avid editors.

FCP Working with PowerPoint Slides

November 26, 2011, 12:28 PM

http://www.larryjordan.biz/tips/tip354.html

You can easily integrate PowerPoint or Keynote slides into Final Cut. Need to integrate Microsoft PowerPoint or Apple Keynote slides into a video presentation?

Video Tutorial: Using the New Tabbed Interface

November 25, 2011, 03:52 PM

http://www.premiumbeat.com/blog/video-tutorial-usi...

Media Composer 6 has come out with some great tools, and we'll be looking at them in detail through several upcoming video tutorials. In this tutorial, you'll be introduced to the new tabbed interface, as well as the ability to save custom bin layouts and workspaces.

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