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

Sorenson Media release Sorenson Squeeze 8

November 2, 2011, 09:59 AM

http://www.fcp.co/hardware-and-software/pro/629-so...

Sorenson have launched two new versions of Squeeze, their cross-platform compression program. If Compressor 4 hasn't enough output formats and codecs, then this might be your answer.

Expanding Grass Cutters Certified Training

November 2, 2011, 09:57 AM

http://www.2-pop.com/article/113002

Grass Valley continues to expand its worldwide accreditation and training program called grass cutters to meet the increasing need in the broadcast television and independent media production markets for qualified editors skilled in the use of Grass Valley EDIUS craft editing software.

Who is editing these Paranormal Activity movies

November 1, 2011, 08:46 PM

http://www.ifc.com/news/2011/10/who-is-editing-the...

No, I haven't forgotten how to use IMDb. Yes, I know Oren Peli edited Paranormal Activity and Gregory Plotkin edited the second and third films. That's not what I'm talking about. I'm talking about who in the fictional world of Paranormal Activity is editing these movies, particularly Paranormal Activity 2 which I just watched for this first time last weekend.

Crash Test Dummy, Take 3

November 1, 2011, 03:26 PM

http://avidassteditor.com/2011/11/01/crash-test-du...

I left the sync shortly after 10 pm and assigned some very trustworthy sync watchers to let me know when it finally finished. It finished at 11:37 pm which was 2 hours and some change from when it began. In my opinion, not a bad showing considering it took me about 8 hours to do [...]