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

Scene Breakdowns: The Wild Bunch part 1

August 26, 2010, 03:27 PM

http://glenmontgomeryiii.com/http:/glenmontgomeryi...

First off I have to apologize. In my excitement to start doing these breakdowns I chose a scene from a movie I had seen in the last couple days. That is not why I am apologizing. I have gained a lot from doing this exercise; there is a lot of power in analyzing something shot by shot that you don’t get from just watching the scene play out as a part of the whole feature and even from watching the scene over and over by itself. I am apologizing because it’s a long one.

NEW TUTORIAL EASES TRANSITION FROM FCP TO AMC 4

August 26, 2010, 03:25 PM

http://www.postmagazine.com/ME2/dirmod.asp?sid=&nm...

HOFFMAN ESTATES, IL – Class on Demand has released a new training course titled "Avid Media Composer for Final Cut Pro Users." The company worked closely with Avid to translate Final Cut Pro editing concepts to comparable solutions within Media Composer 5. (8/26/2010) "The easy-to-comprehend training allows anyone in the industry, especially those familiar with Final Cut Pro, to tap into Media Composer’s open, flexible workflow options — from native support for the industry’s most popula...

Zoom Your Keyframe Graph

August 26, 2010, 03:24 PM

http://splicehere.org/2010/08/26/zoom-your-keyfram...

To properly control advanced keyframes, you need to see your keyframe graph clearly. Here’s an example. Let’s say you’re adding a push-in to a shot. You apply a resize effect, add a keyframe at the beginning and end, and increase the scaling at the tail keyframe. Then you play the effect. Instead of a smooth push from head to tail, your move starts slowly and comes to a stop at the end. What’s going on?

SEQUENCE CUTS INDIAN CRICKET DOCUMENTARY

August 26, 2010, 12:08 PM

http://www.postmagazine.com/ME2/dirmod.asp?sid=&nm...

LONDON – Sequence Post (www.sequence-post.co.uk) recently worked with IMG Sports Media and sports producer Ben Simister on a 72-minute feature documentary that focuses on the 2010 Indian Premier League (IPL) Cricket Tour across India.

Episode 29 - Broadcast Facility tools workflow

August 26, 2010, 08:56 AM

http://www.workflowjunkies.com/2010/08/25/episode-...

Finally, something that truly levels the playing field between mainstream broadcasting and upstarts. The "Tools on Air" suite is a powerful combo of apps that run on Macs and give you traditional broadcast workflows for pennies on the dollar.

Cuttin' Cyclone for Mike @ Thumbin'

August 26, 2010, 08:48 AM

http://www.scottsimmons.tv/blog/2010/08/25/cuttin-...

I recently finished cutting a short film called Cyclone. The director, Mike Ashcraft, wanted to do sort of a director’s commentary on the piece but since it’s not a DVD release we decided to record one and put it up as its own piece on Vimeo. The 12 minute short is the story of "One woman’s revenge" in the rural south.

MPEG LA: H.264 Streaming Will Be Free Forever

August 26, 2010, 08:46 AM

http://newteevee.com/2010/08/26/mpeg-la-h-264-stre...

MPEG LA is announcing today that it will continue to offer a royalty-free license for the H.264 video codec for video sites that offer free video streams to consumers "during the entire life of this (l)icense." In other words: Web sites like YouTube will be free to use H.264 for its streams without having to fear that they’re eventually going to have to pay massive royalties to MPEG LA.

A Few Weeks with Colorista II

August 26, 2010, 08:45 AM

http://www.fxguide.com/article642.html

The original Magic Bullet Colorista brought the 3-way color corrector to After Effects and improved upon the one built into Final Cut Pro. With the recent release of Colorista II and the addition of secondary color correction, more flexible masking, and UI refinements the plugin has solidified its place as our go-to favorite for grading within those desktop applications.

Stabilization on Steriods

August 25, 2010, 06:00 PM

http://splicehere.org/2010/08/24/stabilization-on-...

Media Composer has included a very powerful stabilize effect for years now, but putting all that power to work was not easy. You needed significant training to get up to speed with it. (I posted a introductory video back in ’08 that should help. It’s here.)

The Power of Editing

August 25, 2010, 05:59 PM

http://splicehere.org/2010/07/25/the-power-of-edit...

With all the coverage we saw last week of the Shirley Sherrod story, one thing stands out for me: the whole episode, the truncated video, the firing, the rehiring, the apologies — it’s all an object lesson in the power of editing, not just to change movies, but to change lives.

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