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

Can a Mac mini handle dual-screen HD editing?

October 11, 2010, 10:48 AM

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

At work, I have a big, snorting, hairy beast of a MacPro, but at home I want something small, quiet, and abstemious with the power—yet still capable of dual-screen HD editing with reasonable playback performance when I need it. I’ve tested two Mac minis, with GeForce 9400M and 320M GPUs, alongside my older 15" MacBook Pro with a Radeon x1600 GPU, and the results are... interesting. They may be applicable to recent MacBooks with the same GPUs, too.

Final Cut in trouble? Not so fast...

October 10, 2010, 11:39 PM

http://www.macworld.com/article/154470/2010/10/fin...

Headlines bemoaning the possible delay and dismemberment of Apple's Final Cut Studio are becoming a mainstay of the Mac press. Which would be fine, if there was any substance to the story.

Looking for a Good Codec for Archiving?

October 9, 2010, 12:14 PM

http://www.larryjordan.biz/tips/tip215.html

The problem with any video codec is that it is a lossy codec. That is, it loses quality whenever you record something with it. Most of the time, that loss is not a problem. But sometimes you want to store your materials for a long period of time. For instance, you want to store historical footage from the 1930's. In this case, maintaining image quality with a format that is non-proprietary is critical.

ASE Demystifying Codecs Pt. 4 of 12

October 8, 2010, 04:01 PM

http://www.artoftheguillotine.com/assocvideo.php

Australian Screen Editors presents "Demystifying Codecs", a seminar on video codecs by Chris Reynolds. This is part 4 of 12. Topics covered in this part include: Encoding, Compression, Dimesions, MPEG1, MPEG2, Windows Media, H264, Flip4Mac.

Some writing for Post Magazine

October 8, 2010, 03:47 PM

http://wes.plate.net/2010/10/some-writing-for-post...

Last month I was in Amsterdam for the annual IBC trade show, a large and important expo for people in the broadcast and film industries. I have been going to IBC since 2003, my company Automatic Duck would exhibit with other plug-in companies in the Plug-in Pavilion. But 2010 was the first year where Automatic Duck did not exhibit. There are still a lot of good reasons to be at IBC, so I still traveled to Amsterdam for a few days.

Eps. 11 -T&P What if we Started Over

October 8, 2010, 09:30 AM

http://www.theterenceandphilipshow.com/2010/10/epi...

What would the production industry be like if we had no existing industry: no established production business, no guilds, no agreements, no contracts, no established workflows. How would we go about establishing something like broadcast television so people could still make decent middle class salaries, be creative and do what they love to do.

Improve QuickTime Movie Playback on Slower Systems

October 8, 2010, 09:27 AM

http://www.larryjordan.biz/tips/tip214.html

While H.264 is the star of the codec world at the moment because it creates small file sizes with great image quality, it is not always the best choice when you want to create a QuickTime movie. Why? Because H.264 requires a seriously fast computer to play back smoothly.

10 Things Every Final Cut Pro User Should Know

October 7, 2010, 11:03 AM

http://www.maclife.com/article/howtos/10_things_ev...

The sheer depth of Final Cut Pro features can intimidate new users. Apple's plan was to take the video editing world by storm with their professional editing app. In order to shake Avid from its high horse, Apple had to cram an unbelievable amount of features in there.

#42: Audio Basics II – Stereo Tracks

October 7, 2010, 10:26 AM

http://avidscreencast.com/2010/10/42-audio-basics-...

This week’s episode is all about stereo tracks: How to create them, how to get stuff into them, how to get rid of them again when the ugly beast named Compatibility rears its ugly head.

Export via Sorensen Squeeze 6 from FCP

October 7, 2010, 10:25 AM

http://provideocoalition.com/index.php/ssimmons/st...

Just the other day I needed to export mp3 audio files from several long Final Cut Pro timelines to send to a client for review. There was no reason to send video and they wanted to get small audio files that didn’t have to be of great quality attached to an email. What better format than mp3! With that I remembered that Sorenson Squeeze 6 (now at version 6.5)

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