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

Post World Blog

June 8, 2010, 07:11 PM

http://mikemost.com/

Post World is a new blog added to the blog roll. Here's what Mike says in his about section: I’ve been working in the Los Angeles television and film industry for over 30 years, in both the production and post production segments of that industry. Having started out in the post facility end of the business in 1978 as a videotape operator, I progressed within a few years to telecine work, primarily mastering of feature films.

Movies By The Fireside/Digitalfilms

June 8, 2010, 07:07 PM

http://digitalfilms.wordpress.com/

Some of the posts on this blog are product reviews covering various hardware and software applications used by video professionals. For the sake of full disclosure, you should know that many of these products are seeded or loaned to me for evaluation from the manufacturer in my capacity as a contributing editor with the magazines.

Get Faster in FCP Mouse Analysis

June 8, 2010, 05:54 PM

http://blog.youdownwithfcp.com/2010/06/08/get-fast...

The more you use your mouse, the slower you work. Some tasks are impossible to do without a mouse, but maximizing keyboard shortcuts is the clear path to speed. Keyboard shortcuts, key remapping, and droplet creation are all designed to reduce the number of steps required to do something.

Spatial Editing

June 8, 2010, 05:53 PM

http://splicehere.wordpress.com/2010/06/08/spatial...

John Underkoffler is one of the great visionaries of UI design, and he’s just posted his talk about 3D spatial interfaces from the TED conference this year. This is the Minority Report UI (which he helped design) as it is being implemented — in reality — now. I had the great privilege of sitting in on his class at USC recently, where they were prototyping an editing application.

MC5 Plugin Test

June 8, 2010, 05:52 PM

http://dylanreeve.com/videotv/2010/mc5-plugin-test...

There are a large range of external plugin packages for Avid Media Composer, so I’ve decided to test as many as I can with Media Composer 5.0

A Tour around MC5's interface Changes

June 8, 2010, 05:51 PM

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

With any big software upgrade there’s going to be changes. Some visible, some not so visible. Personally, I love those changes ... as long as they add new or needed functionality without getting in the way.

iMovie for the iPhone

June 7, 2010, 05:50 PM

http://provideocoalition.com/index.php/sgentry/sto...

Check out http://Apps4Phones.comApps4Phones, they’re updating as it happens from WWDC. Randy Ubilos demoing transitions on stage at WWDC, using music from iTunes and more

Multitouch Trackpads Need New Cursor Rules

June 7, 2010, 05:48 PM

http://alex4d.wordpress.com/2010/06/07/multitouch-...

In this Final Cut example, one fingertip is touching an edit, another is hovering over a different edit. To select more than one edit, editors hold down the option key and click additional edits. In a multitouch UI, the editor could hold down a fingertip on the first edit and tap the other edits to extend the selection:

Enable "Bring all to Front" In Compressor

June 7, 2010, 05:47 PM

http://blog.youdownwithfcp.com/2010/06/07/enable-b...

This has been one of my biggest complaints about Compressor; when you switch to it from another app by clicking into one of the compressor windows, only that window rises to the top. The rest of the windows remain mixed in with the finder windows and other apps you have open below. My big hope for FCS 7 was that they would lock those windows together and have them snap to the top together. LIKE EVERY OTHER APP.

Change - Not Just Coins in Your Pocket

June 7, 2010, 05:46 PM

http://editmentor.wordpress.com/2010/06/06/change-...

Change happens to all of us, certainly to me. I was watching a movie at home last night with my wife, both notable things – I rarely watch movies at home, and up until last month I didn’t have a wife.

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