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

Walter Murch: the FCPX situation

November 7, 2011, 10:18 AM

http://www.macvideo.tv/editing/features/?articleid...

Recorded live at the Boston SuperMeet, October 27, 2011. Walter tells of his immediate thoughts when Final Cut Pro X was released; what the program lacked and why it was unsuitable for feature film production. He explains what Apple has done, in the meantime, to improve the application and where he hopes this will go next.

CoreMelt upgrade their plugins for FCPX

November 7, 2011, 10:17 AM

http://www.fcp.co/final-cut-pro/news/638-coremelt-...

CoreMelt Complete is now available for Final Cut Pro X and it's been reduced to half price. Also Red Giant show us why Magic Bullet won't be coming to FCPX just yet.

Recently in After Effects

November 7, 2011, 10:13 AM

http://provideocoalition.com/index.php/ryoung/stor...

Here's another week of some of the latest news (in two parts) on After Effects tutorials, plug-ins, scripts, and related items of interest. It was busy again last week, with iExpressions (a new approach to leverage expressions), tutorials from Red Giant, workflow, cameras, and Avid moving things forward.

The Adobe Premiere Pro timeline for Final Cut Pro

November 7, 2011, 10:13 AM

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

When working in a non-linear editing application the editor spends many, many hours working in the timeline. Boy do we spend a lot of hours working in the timeline. If you're moving from Final Cut Pro 7 to Adobe Premiere...

Motion Tracking and Green Screen with After Effect

November 6, 2011, 05:44 PM

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

Amazingly, a lot of people don’t even know that they already OWN Mocha AE… it ships along with After Effects CS4 and higher and is a stand-alone application for providing planar motion tracking. You've probably already seen the trick of using Mocha AE to track and insert an image or a video clip inside an iPhone, but how about dealing with fingers on the screen and reflections on the surface?

Three companies, three different approaches to 64

November 6, 2011, 05:44 PM

http://www.philiphodgetts.com/2011/11/64-bit/

Avid, Adobe and Apple have taken different paths to 64 bit because they had different needs for their apps.

MPEG-2 basic training, part 2

November 6, 2011, 05:43 PM

http://broadcastengineering.com/infrastructure/mpe...

Is MPEG compression your friend? Of course, the answer to this question is that MPEG compression is your friend, unless it's not working properly. When that happens, it's our job to make it friendly again. This "Transition to Digital" tutorial continues the discussion from the preceding mid-October "Transition to Digital" tutorial about monitoring and evaluating MPEG-2 streams.

Improving FCP X

November 6, 2011, 11:28 AM

http://digitalfilms.wordpress.com/2011/11/05/impro...

A short while ago I started a thread at Creative COW entitled, "What would it take?" My premise is that Final Cut Pro X has enough tantalizing advantages that many "pro users" (whatever that means) would adopt it, if only it had a few extra features. I'm not talking about turning it into FCP 8. I think that’s pretty unrealistic and I believe Apple is going in a different direction. The point is that there...

I Can Do My Job Better Than You

November 6, 2011, 11:25 AM

http://dylanreeve.com/videotv/2011/i-can-do-my-job...

The proliferation of inexpensive cameras and post-production tools in the last decade has resulted in a lot of jacks of all trades. It also has increasingly led us to focus on the the technology as if it is some magic bullet. Art Adams has written a great article on the subject at ProVideo Coalition...

Bluefish444 Announces Future Support For Avid

November 5, 2011, 10:33 AM

http://www.digitalproductionbuzz.com/2011/11/04/bl...

Bluefish444, manufacturer of the industry’s highest-quality uncompressed 4K/2K/HD/SD SDI video cards, has announced future support Avid Media Composer 6, Symphony 6 and NewsCutter 10 through its high-quality SDI I/O, available on Windows and Mac.

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