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
January 8, 2011, 09:25 AM
http://digitalfilms.wordpress.com/2011/01/08/demys...
In previous posts on color correction and grading I’ve discussed how to use some of the built-in and third-party tools to stylize the look of your production. It never ceases to amaze me how many people assume color grading is just the click of a preset in Magic Bullet Looks or the click of the Auto-Balance function in a grading tool. In fact, grading is more than just fixing problems. It takes a bit of thought and effort to enhance an image creatively and tastefully.
January 8, 2011, 09:23 AM
http://jeffvlog.wordpress.com/2011/01/07/free-mont...
Larry Jordan, digital media analyst and world-renowned Final Cut Studio expert and teacher, just released the December edition of his free monthly Final Cut Studio newsletter. Published each month for the last six years, each issue is packed with valuable techniques, tips, product reviews, responses to reader questions and the latest industry news. Containing 40 pages, the December issue is designed to help editors get the most out of Final Cut.
January 8, 2011, 09:22 AM
http://jeffvlog.wordpress.com/2011/01/08/editing-t...
Shot logs are a great tool to have when editing. A shot log is usually compiled during production and will provide you, the editor, with important information about each shot such as scene information, time code in and out points, and notes on the quality of the take. However, not all production teams feel the need for shot logs, or sometimes forget to fill them out. In the case of one-man bands, there just aren’t enough hands to direct, operate the camera, monitor...
January 7, 2011, 11:03 AM
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In the Photoshop tutorial from Creative COW, you'll learn how to make an alpha channel based upon the luminance in an image. Alpha channels allow you to store transparency in a graphic. This is part of a series of Photoshop tutorials from www.creativecow.net. Be sure to check out my two Photoshop books – Photoshop for Video and Understanding Adobe Photoshop CS5.
January 7, 2011, 11:00 AM
http://library.creativecow.net/devis_andrew/Creati...
In the second part of this Premiere Pro CS5+ tutorial series Andrew Devis shows how to create a new sequence which will exactly match your footage even if you have no idea what size, frame rate or pixel aspect ratio (PAR) it may be. With the use of a single drag and drop action a new sequence that matches your footage precisely can be created.
January 6, 2011, 01:17 PM
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While working on a job this week I had tons of shots to log and organize. While doing this I realized how much I was pasting the same words over and over and over and over. No problem, I mapped my floating keyboard key F13 to paste. That meant I didn’t have to keep hitting the two key combination of command + v over and over again. You wouldn’t think it would make that much difference but it does. It reminded me of an old 2008 Editblog post: My Friend F13.
January 6, 2011, 09:35 AM
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Put simply, Plural Eyes syncs up your rushes for you: you can use it to sync up mulitple cameras or sync a main camera to audio which has been recoded separately. Using the camera mic. as a guide track you can sync up wild sound to picture much easier than it ever was in the days in Nagras and mag-tape.
January 5, 2011, 03:28 PM
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As you know, the topic of this column is Final Cut Pro Insider, but every once in a while, I stretch the envelope and go off on a slight tangent. This month is one of those times, where I’m going to look at the video recording capabilities of my new iPod touch and video editing on the iPod with iMovie.
January 5, 2011, 10:31 AM
http://www.philiphodgetts.com/2011/01/why-are-we-a...
There seems to be a constant panic among Final Cut Studio users that Apple is "going to abandon professional video" because it isn’t the first thing that Apple talks about at every press conference or event. But it shouldn’t be. Pro Apps are a relatively small – but highly profitable – division within Apple. True the focus is on iOS devices, which turns out to be a great thing for professional video because...
January 5, 2011, 10:29 AM
http://lfhd.net/2011/01/02/colorista-2-feel-the-po...
When I first started color correcting in FCP I used the built in 3-way color corrector. When it first was introduced in FCP 3, it is what first drew me to FCP. And I have been able to do quite a bit with it. But when Magic Bullet Colorista by Red Giant Software came out, and I was able to push the colors further than the 3-way...take things more to the extreme. And lately, while I have been glued to COLOR, there are many instances...
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