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

Batch Renaming Clips in Final Cut Pro X

September 5, 2011, 10:14 AM

http://www.macvideo.tv/editing/features/?articleid...

The ability to Batch Rename clips in Final Cut Pro Pro X is a fantastic means for the editor to organise their footage, not just because naming conventions like 013_0251_01 for camera originals is meaningless and useless - but also because clips which you have renamed are searchable.

Boris Announces Soundbite: Dialogue Search for FCP

September 5, 2011, 10:12 AM

http://www.digitalproductionbuzz.com/2011/09/04/bo...

Boris Soundbite quickly and accurately finds any word or phrase spoken in recorded media. Video editors, producers, and journalists can instantly play all occurrences of a spoken phrase in their media, then insert the perfect take into their Final Cut Pro project, organize clips around keywords, and even find replacement words for problematic audio. Based on Nexidia's patented dialogue search technology

An interview with Anne V. Coates

September 5, 2011, 10:11 AM

http://azfcpug.org/2011/09/05/an-interview-with-an...

Among the many sites I peruse on a daily basis I found this link to a two part interview with Anne V. Coates. The first part of the interview can be found here. The second part of the interview can be found here. Ms. Coates is an Academy Award winning editor who won for best editing on Lawrence of Arabia. On that movie she did one of the most famous jump cuts in movie history...

Agenda set Fourth Annual FCPUG Amsterdam Supermeet

September 4, 2011, 04:33 PM

http://blog.digitalcontentproducer.com/briefingroo...

The agenda has now been set for the Fourth Annual FCPUG Amsterdam SuperMeet to be held Sunday, September 11, 2011 at the Hotel Krasnapolsky in the heart of Amsterdam during IBC week. The Amsterdam SuperMeet will further celebrate the Tenth Anniversary of SuperMeets and promises to be the single largest gathering of Final Cut, Adobe, Avid, Autodesk editors, and Digital Filmmakers, Gurus and users during IBC2011. Tickets are on sale now and can be purchased at the SuperMeet web site.

Quickest Way to Pan Audio - Multi-Clips

September 4, 2011, 10:23 AM

http://www.larryjordan.biz/tips/tip271.html

In Final Cut Pro, you can only incrementally adjust Pan settings clip by clip. However, here's a neat trick to shift the pan absolutely to the full left, right, or center for a single clip or group of clips.