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

MATROX'S MX02 MINI

July 14, 2010, 10:03 AM

http://www.postmagazine.com/ME2/dirmod.asp?sid=&nm...

The introduction of the Matrox MX02 Mini actually makes a little bit of video history: It’s the first third-party hardware option Avid deemed worthy of being allowed into the exclusive club with Media Composer. Matrox is well-known for its quality and value, so the partnership with Avid bodes well for both companies.

Is Apple Ceding the High-End Video Editing Market

July 13, 2010, 02:20 PM

http://hollywoodreinvented.com/2010/07/12/is-apple...

Steve Jobs e-mail reassurances notwithstanding, this is a question that’s getting asked a lot in editing suites these days, especially those with large Final Cut Pro/Final Cut Studio installations. While users of other software; Adobe CS Suites including Premiere and After Effects, Avid’s Media Composer, Sony Vegas and Square Box Systems CatDV just to name a few, get new features and powerful upgrades, Final Cut Pro editors are stuck waiting on the sidelines.

Editing Multiple Personalities

July 13, 2010, 01:26 PM

http://digitalcontentproducer.com/videoedsys/revfe...

Once the interviews were synced, all the clips were converted to Apple ProRes 422 24fps. After gathering all of the perspectives from each interview, I came across two lines that helped me really understand and create Sasha's story. Her father talks about Sasha's contradicting personalities— as if there were a constant battle between the two sides of this curiously engaging girl. This conflict goes even deeper when Froomer asks Sasha to introduce herself.

XDCAM Vs. ProRES

July 13, 2010, 10:51 AM

http://lfhd.net/2010/07/12/xdcam-vs-prores/

Yeah, I know, I know. I already knew this, and I have told many MANY other people that they should edit XDCAM as ProRes...but I thought that I’d just save a LITTLE time with these quick promos I am cutting and keep them as XDCAM, but render them out of Color as ProRes. I did a small test and it worked.

Useful Tools for FCP Admins

July 12, 2010, 12:30 PM

http://www.studiodaily.com/blog/?p=3585

Digital Rebellion has recently released a new tool that adds addition functionality to one of their other very useful tools FCS Maintenance Pack. The new FCS Maintenance Pack Network Admin will allow a system administrator perform the tasks and functions of the maintenance pack remotely. A full rundown of the tool was posted on the Digital Rebellion site just over a week ago.

Avid Media Composer/Matrox

July 11, 2010, 03:55 PM

http://digitalproducer.digitalmedianet.com/article...

I thought for the last article I'm writing on Media Composer 5, I would do something a little different. Since Avid made the decision to support Matrox's MXO2 mini as a way for editors to monitor external video, I thought that I would do a review of it.

Kevin Monahan - speed tools in Final Cut Pro 7

July 11, 2010, 09:35 AM

http://www.macvideo.tv/editing/features/index.cfm?...

Kevin Monahan co-founded SF Cutters, which is widely regarded as being the first and longest running Final Cut Pro user group on the planet. In addition to this Kevin has worked as an editor, been employed by Apple, and is the author of "Motion Graphics and Effects in Final Cut Pro (Peachpit Press). In this demonstration Kevin shows how to effectively work with the new speed tools in Final Cut Pro 7. Inside of a 10 minute demo Kevin unlocks the secrets to making these tools work for you.

Cost of Editing Technology

July 11, 2010, 09:35 AM

http://www.macvideo.tv/blogs/index.cfm?blogid=1001...

Five years ago I set up an edit suite in a client's office. Brand new shinyG5, flat-screen monitors, FireWire deck, all state-of-the-art, top-of-the-line. This week I set up an edit suite once again, for the same client in the same office. This time it was a new shiny 8-core Nehalem, 2.26, nice large monitors, drives to install, Final Cut Pro to upgrade.

Richard Shackleton - The Foundry

July 11, 2010, 09:34 AM

http://www.macvideo.tv/editing/interviews/index.cf...

The Foundry is regarded as being world leading innovator of visual effects and image processing technologies that boost productivity in motion picture and video post production.

Don't Make Your Clients Cry

July 11, 2010, 09:33 AM

http://www.macvideo.tv/blogs/index.cfm?blogid=1001...

Don’t make your clients cry Not a good situation when your behavior as the editor causes a client to burst into tears. That’s what happened recently on a job. I was in charge of an edit for a major company, during a training day which involved their workers gathering into teams to complete a project...

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