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

Blackmagic buys Teranex Systems Inc.

December 7, 2011, 02:36 PM

http://www.fcp.co/hardware-and-software/pro/666-bl...

Today Blackmagic Design announced they have purchased Teranex Systems Inc, a company that specialises in hardware frame rate conversion, noise reduction, film restoration and compression.

Tip of the Week

December 7, 2011, 10:02 AM

http://www.angietaylor.co.uk/tip-of-the-week/

Welcome to this week's Tip of the Week! After Effects has great tools for character animation called the Puppet tool. The Puppet Pin tool places a mesh over your footage using the alpha channel. You can add points to this mesh that allow to distort it and animate it, using gestural animation with your pen or mouse.

Render Engines the Joy of LEGAL obligations

December 7, 2011, 09:59 AM

http://blogs.adobe.com/sforde/2011/12/07/render-en...

Before I have an Occupy After Effects movement on my front lawn – I wanted to provide some clarity on the decision we made, and why we made it. For reference...

On the Fast Track: The Replicator

December 7, 2011, 09:57 AM

http://library.creativecow.net/mcauliffe_kevin/Mot...

In the next Chapter of our ongoing On the Fast Track with Apple's Motion 5 tutorial series, we are going to look at what goes into creating a 3D extruded animation in Motion 5 using only built in tools to create it. Kevin P McAuliffe will look at using the Replicator for creating the extrusions, he will also look at everything that goes into working with Cameras and Lights, as well as Behaviors that control them. In Lesson 1, part 1, we take a look at the basics of the Replicator...

Episode 6: King of the Encoders

December 7, 2011, 09:50 AM

http://www.macvideo.tv/encoding/interviews/?articl...

Telestream Product Manager, Kevin Louden, talks about Episode 6, which is regarded as being one of the fastest and highest quality encoders on the market. With a staggering array of encoding presets which can be customised to the user needs, Episode 6 offers a complete encoding solution for Mac and/or PC.

BACK SEAT DRIVERS

December 7, 2011, 09:47 AM

http://lfhd.net/2011/12/06/back-seat-drivers/

Not too long ago I was given a project to cut and it came with a producer that I hadn't worked with before. They came in to my bay, handed me the script and told me generally what the piece was about. Then they left and I got to work. But then later, partway through the...

Community of Editors Respond to CNN Laysoff of 50

December 6, 2011, 03:34 PM

http://www.premiumbeat.com/blog/community-of-edito...

Last month, CNN announced layoffs of about 50 of its editors and videographers, stating that, in large part, because cameras and editing equipment were so plentiful in the hands of the masses, they would begin relying more heavily on consumer generated content, rather than professional content.

A Hint at the Next After Effects

December 6, 2011, 03:32 PM

http://www.studiodaily.com/blog/?p=8098

We all know that with Adobe's new release schedule a major upgrade to Adobe After Effects CS6 is in the works and will be released at some point in 2012, most likely around NAB. You may or may not like Adobe's new upgrade policy (some definitely don’t like it). Regardless, we all want to know what Adobe has in store for the next version of After Effects.

Adobe CS5.5 Max Render Quality | NVIDIA GPU

December 6, 2011, 03:31 PM

http://www.shawnlam.ca/2011/adobe-cs5-5-max-render...

Let me start-off by saying that Jan Ozer is my favourite video technology writer and speaker. I first met him in Jacksonville, FL at the defunct 4EVERGroup's Video '07 video conventions, where we were both speakers. Steve Nathans, EventDV Magazine's editor-in-chief...

Webinar: How Adobe CS5.5 Handled Cutting Mobius

December 6, 2011, 03:29 PM

http://www.dv.com/article/114154

On Thursday, December 8th, from 10:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m. PST, Adobe will be running a free webinar with Jon Carr, producer and editor of Vincent Laforet's Canon C300-shot short film, Mobius. Carr will discuss how Adobe Story, Premiere Pro, After Effects and Photoshop were utilized to successfully create and deliver Mobius.

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