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

What IS the Big Deal With FCP - A Response

November 1, 2010, 11:13 AM

http://dylanreeve.com/videotv/2010/what-is-the-big...

Recently a blog post from Neil Sadwelkar titled "What’s the big deal about FCP" made the rounds of the post people on Twitter. It’s an evaluation of Final Cut Pro, mainly comparing it to Avid Media Composer. This is obviously nothing new, there are probably hundreds of such blog posts around the net, but this one was a little special simply because of it’s massive wrongness... Neil doesn’t seem to be approving comments on his blog post, so I thought I’d post my points in response here.

Glyph Triplicator

November 1, 2010, 11:11 AM

http://www.negativespaces.com/blog/2010/10/31/glyp...

This device mounts on your desktop as one drive while simultaneously downloading to up to 3 external destinations at the same speed if it were one drive. Amazing hardware driven technology. As boring as it is, data management is now a big part of the job and a product like this theoretically makes the process a little less painless. We'll see..

November Back Up Reminder

November 1, 2010, 11:08 AM

http://www.scottsimmons.tv/blog/2010/11/01/backup-...

A monthly backup of your system should be a minimum (hence these reminders) so you might consider something like CrashPlan for automated backups. I’ve been using it for a couple of months now and like it so far. The next thing I need to test is restoration as a backup is only as good as being able to get the info back.

Grading the Graders Pt. 1

October 31, 2010, 11:00 PM

http://mikemost.com/?p=204

There seems to be a lot of talk these days about color grading, and a lot of it seems to revolve around what system represents the best solution given a particular set of circumstances. In a lot of these discussions, there seems to be a lot of attention paid to using general purpose platforms, such as nonlinear editors like Final Cut, Avid Media Composer, and Premiere Pro, for this purpose...

Tapeless TV Workflow for Childrens Hospital

October 31, 2010, 02:01 PM

http://www.studiodaily.com/main/technique/tproject...

Childrens Hospital debuted in 2008 as a web series on TheWB.com before coming to Adult Swim this summer. Bringing it to television meant planning a workflow that would preserve the creative energy that made the online version a success while bringing the property to a much larger audience. That responsibility fell to North Hollywood's J/KAM Digital, which cut the show in HD on Mac-based Avid Media Composer Nitris DX systems and finished it on the Symphony Nitris DX. Film & Video talked about...

The Secrets of the Right-Pointing Arrow

October 31, 2010, 11:36 AM

http://www.larryjordan.biz/tips/tip237.html

A great deal of the look of the Timeline is controlled from an itty-bitty, teeny-tiny, right-pointing arrow at the bottom of the Timeline. It is certainly not obvious, so look closely just to the right of the four-column track height bar chart.

Imitation is the Sincerest Form of Plagiarism

October 29, 2010, 03:56 PM

http://allbetsareoff.com/2010/10/imitation-is-the-...

If you follow my blog, you probably know that I’m working with Red Giant Software these days. That was a choice I didn’t even have to think hard about. The opportunity to work with guys like Peder Norrby and Stu Maschwitz, the creative geniuses behind Trapcode and Magic Bullet respectively, was just too good to ignore. Here are two people who truly understand us (the users), and who spend a ginormous amount of time and energy working to bring us something amazing and original and often...

3D in Vegas Pro 10

October 29, 2010, 12:40 PM

http://3dcinecast.blogspot.com/2010/10/new-feature...

Can you manipulate the 3D positioning of video tracks in 3D space? You can do this in a couple of different ways in Vegas Pro 10. First, you can use the 3D track and parent compositing tools that have been included in Vegas Pro for several versions. These tools enable you to create 3D perspective and manipulate tracks on three-dimensional planes.

Useful Tools for Editors: Clip Info Titler

October 29, 2010, 10:29 AM

http://www.studiodaily.com/blog/?p=4613

Here’s a simple little tool for Final Cut Pro from the folks over at Assisted Editing. Like many of their tools, Clip Info Titler is based on FCP’s ability to export and import XML files. It takes an XML of a bin full of clips and creates a sequence that includes a text overlay, reflecting data about those sequences, applied above each clip. At $99 it might sound expensive, since you could enter the data manually and create your own text overlay by hand.

Plug-in Round-up

October 29, 2010, 09:35 AM

http://digitalfilms.wordpress.com/2010/10/29/plug-...

One way to spruce up your editing application is through various plug-ins for effects filters, transitions and generators. Your options range from single-purpose filters, like Magic Bullet Colorista II and Digital Anarchy Beauty Box, to full suites, like Boris Continuum Complete or GenArts Sapphire. Such filters enhance the power of your favorite editing or compositing tool by connecting through an API...

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