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

Avid Receives ACE's First Ever Tech Award

February 16, 2010, 09:06 AM

http://splicehere.wordpress.com/2010/02/15/avid-re...

From a tech-centric point of view, the highlight of the evening was ACE’s first-ever Technical Excellence Award, which went to the Media Composer. Avid CEO Gary Greenfield was there to receive it, and many Avid folk were on hand to share in the festivities.

Fix The Quicktime h.264 Gamma Bug

February 15, 2010, 09:03 AM

http://ahrengot.wordpress.com/2009/09/12/tip-how-t...

Ever since Quicktime 7, there’s been a wierd bug when encoding h.264 videoes using Quicktime Pro. The gamma is being offset and the colors get washed out as shown below...

The ipad, Editing, My Book and Delays

February 12, 2010, 08:58 AM

http://normanhollyn.com/2010/02/10/the-ipad-film-e...

Long time readers of this blog will realize that it has been a long time — since I’ve posted. There are some very good reasons for that, not the least of which is that my new book was being written, rewritten, rewritten again, and published — all of which required a time sucking amount of work. All of which I’m thrilled about.

Avid Offline of FCP Online Part 2

February 12, 2010, 08:57 AM

http://lfhd.net/2010/02/11/avid-online-of-fcp-onli...

I AM AN IDIOT! I am a moron! I made a STUPID mistake! What incompetence! What lack of mental ability was I suffering? A complete brain-fart! GAH, I feel stupid. But hey, we all make mistakes sometimes, right?

FCP Shortcuts

February 12, 2010, 08:54 AM

http://flippant.net/blog/2010/02/fcp-shortcuts/

A few years back, I had a major F#(k up with my server and lost my old blog posts. DVguru had/has a link to a post I put up on Final Cut Pro shortcuts.

Avid Screencast - Secondary Color Correction

February 11, 2010, 08:53 AM

http://avidscreencast.com/2010/02/16-secondary-col...

Secondary color correction is applying one correction to the image as a whole, but a different correction to a specific portion of the image. This can be necessary in a lot of situations, mostly when you need a different treatment of skin tones compared to the rest of your image.

Getting Footage Before the Internet

February 11, 2010, 08:52 AM

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

I posted this piece back in June 2008 after I had cleaned out a closet and found my old Highlander: Uncut editing package. It was cutting edge at the time but unfortunately this package is no longer for sale. Long before there was the opencut.org project, cheap digital camcorders and even Final Cut Pro there was always the question of where could you get footage for digital non-linear editing.

Avid Online of FCP Offline

February 9, 2010, 08:47 AM

http://lfhd.net/2010/02/08/avid-online-of-fcp-offl...

OK, first I need to point out this old post from 2009. To summarize the part I want you to pay heed to, the HVR-1500 deck that I had SO MUCH trouble capturing with in FCP? Well, it is rock solid in Avid. Not one issue...not one slipped frame, not one dropped frame, not one reconnect issue. The Avid treats this like any old deck....or, NEW deck.

Editor's Swiss Army Knife

February 8, 2010, 08:47 AM

http://dylanreeve.com/videotv/2010/editors-swiss-a...

Most of us these days probably carry a USB stick with us pretty regularly, handy for getting files off client’s laptops and so forth, but it can also be your swiss army knife!

Codec Smackdown

February 8, 2010, 08:46 AM

http://digitalfilms.wordpress.com/2010/02/07/codec...

Modern digital acquisition, post and distribution wouldn’t be possible without data rate reduction, AKA compression. People like to disparage compression, but I dare say that few folks...

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