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

Turning Off Audio Track Names in Final Cut Pro

November 3, 2010, 11:24 AM

http://www.geniusdv.com/news_and_tutorials/2010/11...

In Final Cut Pro it can be very useful to not show the audio track names. Because the audio track name goes right over top of the waveform when you have them active, they can make seeing the waveform difficult. Especially at an edit where the name of the outgoing clip is right next to the name of the incoming clip. Depending on how zoomed in on the timeline you are this can make a significant amount of the waveform difficult to see.

Sharing PC formatted drives on a Mac

November 3, 2010, 11:18 AM

http://www.geniusdv.com/news_and_tutorials/2010/11...

With the popularity of Apple Macintosh, you may find the need to have a hard drive that can be used with both PC's and MAC's.

Scaling in Adobe Premiere Pro CS5

November 2, 2010, 08:13 PM

http://provideocoalition.com/index.php/adobe/story...

A lot of people are talking about CUDA and the GPU in the context of Premiere Pro CS5. But the talk is almost always about speed, speed, and more speed. Yeah, using CUDA on the GPU to process a lot of effects does speed things up (a lot!) in many cases, but that’s not the whole story.

So Final Cut Pro 7 was to be the 64 bit release?

November 2, 2010, 08:10 PM

http://www.philiphodgetts.com/2010/11/so-final-cut...

Over dinner last night we were discussing the history of Final Cut Pro, various WWDC announcements and it suddenly struck me that Final Cut Pro 7 was originally going to be a 64 bit release, until Apple pulled the rug from under the Final Cut Pro team (as well as other developers, specifically Adobe).

iMovie '11 Includes Rolling Shutter Fix

November 2, 2010, 08:01 PM

http://nofilmschool.com/2010/11/imovie-11-includes...

We all know one of the chief drawbacks to shooting with (current generation) DSLRs are the rolling shutter artifacts that show up on shaky or fast-panning shots. It turns out that iMovie '11, in addition to interesting movie trailer templates, includes a filter that can decrease or eliminate these annoying artifacts. Here’s a comparison from Nino Leitner of some Canon T2i footage, before and after using the iMovie '11 filter:

Boris Yamnitsky: Founder, Boris FX

November 1, 2010, 04:02 PM

http://www.macvideo.tv/motion-graphics-vfx/intervi...

Boris FX is regarded throughout the video industry as a company which has been innovative and focussed on providing tools to editors, compositors and effects artists who wish to extend the potential creating high quality video effects. Several products are on offer, including tool-sets which rate alongside the best of the best in the world of motion graphics and video effects creation.

Geek Fight - Avid MC vs FCP

November 1, 2010, 04:01 PM

http://www.freshdv.com/2010/11/avid-vs-fcp.html

The FCP nerds are fighting with the Avid geeks again. We should probably separate them before someone gets a grass stain on their shirt. If you aren’t too busy working with either system to care, you can read the pros and cons from either side here and here. Absent from this NLE point-counterpoint blog war is the dark horse that is Adobe Premiere CS5, which is seriously kicking ass lately. Enough ass stomping power that I’m personally considering using it on a few projects in leu of FCP...

Half truths about MPEG-2 vs. AVC-I compression

November 1, 2010, 04:01 PM

http://provideocoalition.com/index.php/sony/story/...

Proponents of AVC-I compression have been quick to seize on a simple, and we believe simplistic, claim: "Twice the compression efficiency of MPEG-2." It’s a bold promise that has a nice ring to it and has been repeated ad infinitum. The only problem: it just isn’t true.

Autodesk: Demystifying Smoke for Mac

November 1, 2010, 03:59 PM

http://www.macvideo.tv/motion-graphics-vfx/feature...

Autodesk: Demystifying Smoke for Mac; Autodesk's Grant Kay demystifies Smoke for Mac. Grant demonstrates real-world examples such as pulling the impossible key to using 3D compositing tools to take your motion graphics to the next level - also featured; the latest in stereoscopic 3D editorial...

Glyph Production Technologies Portable RAID

November 1, 2010, 03:57 PM

http://www.studiodaily.com/main/news/12682.html

Glyph Production Technologies will begin shipping its new portable RAID-protected storage device, the PortaGig 62, following the AES show, the second week of November. Modeled after Glyph’s successful GT 062E, a larger desktop RAID, the PortaGig 62 has two 5400 or 7200RPM drives inside, and is small enough to fit in the palm of your hand. A quiet internal fan provides maximum airflow and proper cooling - critical to the performance and reliability of the components.

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