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

Scott Simmons July 2010 Linkage

August 15, 2010, 10:55 AM

http://www.scottsimmons.tv/blog/2010/08/14/hot-jul...

Scott Simmons July 2010 Linkage for editors. Editing links from around the web.

Adobe Premiere Pro CS5 "saves" an interv

August 13, 2010, 07:48 PM

http://www.philiphodgetts.com/2010/08/adobe-premie...

One of the reasons my direct posting here has been light lately is that we’ve been working on a small documentary, partly for the exercise but mostly to a) have demo material for prEdit that isn’t 10 years old and b) prove to myself the prEdit is indeed a great new workflow for documentary editing. Plus a documentary gets made to store the memories of the early 60’s drag racing community.

A Case for Mastering Codecs

August 13, 2010, 12:00 PM

http://blog.jayfriesen.com/2010/08/a-case-for-mast...

Traditionally (can there be much tradition here yet?), this would be used in a DI process when not going out to film. This is becoming quite common now as theater deliveries are becoming increasingly digital. You want something that hits film’s final resolution of approximately 1.5K and does that very well without being hugely taxing on space and processing power. Currently Cineform and DNxHD are the only codecs I know if being used in this process (caveat: I don’t work in Hollywoodland, thi...

When Avid Met Apple – Bill Warner Interview

August 12, 2010, 05:22 PM

http://hollywoodreinvented.com/2010/08/12/when-avi...

The final segment of my interview with engineer, inventor and entrepreneur, Bill Warner, the man who created Avid Technology. In this segment Bill talks about getting the initial investment, the period leading up to the launch of the company and how an encounter with some Apple employees at the SIGGRAPH show helped him and his team make a last minute decision to move development of the Media Composer to the Macintosh.

RED POST - The Easy Way II

August 12, 2010, 12:28 AM

http://digitalfilms.wordpress.com/2010/08/11/red-p...

The RED camera company has succeeded in shaking up the industry and getting all other camera manufacturers to rethink what a digital cinema camera should be. This year, the ARRI Alexa presents the first serious challenge by another system designed around a camera raw workflow.

Review - Loader for Final Cut Pro

August 11, 2010, 01:33 AM

http://provideocoalition.com/index.php/editingpost...

Final Cut Pro’s greatest strength is also its greatest weakness, and that is its open-endedness. What I mean by that is that Media Composer has a very "rigid" way of working, and importing media means that you take a clip, and upon import, MC converts it to an MXF (or possibly an OMF) file, and once it’s in your system, the external file that it came from is essentially useless.

To Transcode or NOT to Transcode

August 10, 2010, 04:11 PM

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

With the release of Premiere Pro CS5 earlier this year, the topic of native editing, and more specifically, native DSLR editing has been a big one...worldwide. From literally every country I’ve visited, people are discovering the power of DSLR video and leveraging it to it’s fullest. But the questions I’m continually asked are, "Why does Final Cut Pro/Avid Media Composer force you to transcode? Why don’t you transcode in Premiere?"

Editing Quantom of Solace

August 10, 2010, 02:26 PM

https://www.aotg.com/editing-quantom-of-solace/

Watch Rick Pearson & Matt Chesse discuss editing Quantum Of Solace. A short minute long discussion of what it's like to cut Bond.

Great Expectations

August 9, 2010, 10:20 PM

http://dylanreeve.com/videotv/avid/2010/great-expe...

Media Composer 5 has been out for a while now... And since my initial impressions of it I’ve been thinking more about what it signals for the future of Avid in general and Media Composer specifically – about what I expect to see in the coming versions.

MATROX VETURA CAPTURE – STAND ALONE CAPTURE

August 9, 2010, 12:42 PM

http://lfhd.net/2010/08/05/matrox-vetura-capture-s...

Well, I don’t often post press releases here for companies...I feel that I want to more share my experiences than just repost press releases. BUT...I like Matrox, I rely on their hardware for my bay and it works great for me. And not long ago Phil Hodgetts and Terry Curren were talking about how the new FCP should do away with the tape capture tool (stupid idea, sorry guys)...and how only AJA hardware...

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