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

Interactive Interest: Posting New Media

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These days there are more and more avenues available to reach audiences, and creatives are taking advantage of as many as possible. Want to find a way to literally put the audience into a commercial? Have an idea for a wacky TV series that might not get past the suits at a big network? Looking to take visual storytelling to a new level with the iPad? Currently, it's all possible.

Editing HDSLR footage natively

March 12, 2011, 11:37 AM

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With the wild success of HDSLR cameras from both Canon and Nikon, there is a renewed interest in editing H.264 media natively, using the video files that are transferred directly from the camera into your editing system. H.264 is the video format that these cameras use for capturing their images. Editing natively saves time because you don’t need to transcode your video. And H.264 files are very small, compared to other video file formats.

At Sundance: "Death to the Tinman" Edito

March 11, 2011, 08:56 PM

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In this installment of the Avid podcast, director Ray Tintori and editor, Par Parekh talk about resurrecting Ray's original thesis project at Wesleyan University as a film submission to the Sundance Film Festival. Originally shot in 16mm and edited on a Steenbeck, Ray and Par tell us how they took this adaptation of L. Frank Baum's story, "The Tin Woodsman of OZ", to the world of non-linear editing. They also bring us up to date on their...

The Loneliness of the Long Distance Editor

March 11, 2011, 08:55 PM

http://www.joyoffilmediting.com/?p=3509

UK editor Jim Clark entered the cutting room at age 20 in 1951 and in 2010, at 79, turned in Made in Dagenham, Mike Leigh’s latest film, released this year. (See January 27th post: I loved this film.) In case you’re not familiar with this work, here’s a partial list of his credits: Vera Drake, The Jackal, Marvin’s Room, Copycat, Nell, The Mission, The Killing Fields (for which he won the Oscar), Marathon Man, The Day of the Locust, Charade...the list goes on.

Creating the "Lean forward moments" (par

March 11, 2011, 08:53 PM

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In part 2 of this two part series, Norm Hollyn, Editing Track Head at USC's School of Cinematic Arts, talks with Matt about using the craft of editing to create moments in his films that affect the audience's emotions. "By applying the basics of storytelling and editing you can create these 'moments of change'". Norm also shares his advice to graduating seniors entering the job market and his take on managing the chaos in the edit room.

Preparing Students for the Real World (part I)

March 11, 2011, 08:52 PM

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In part I of this two part series, Norm Hollyn, Editing Track Head at USC's School of Cinematic Arts, discusses how USC uses Avid products to prepare the new students of the digital age for their careers in film and television. Norm also provides insight into the coming trends in the media industry ... "Content is King!"

Episode 002 - Filmmaker Arthur Klein discusses...

March 11, 2011, 08:51 PM

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In this episode, long time filmmaker Arthur Klein, discusses the post production process on his film "Y" Yoga, which was recently submitted to the Sundance Film Festival.

Avid's The Rough Cut

March 11, 2011, 08:50 PM

http://community.avid.com/blogs/theroughcut/defaul...

The Rough Cut is interviews with industry pros sharing their personal and professional stories and their passion for their work, along with tips & tricks for working with Avid products that will make your work even more creative and productive, as well as shop talk and much more.

Episode 001 - Dean Gonzalez on working

March 11, 2011, 08:48 PM

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Relaunch of the Avid Podcast with new host, Matt Feury, Avid product marketing manager for advanced post products. In this episode, highlights of an interview with Dean Gonzalez, music video editor at Sunset edit where he talks about working in the industry, and with Media Composer, as well as with bands like Green Day, Aerosmith and others.

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