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

Apple updates Digital Camera RAW support

February 21, 2011, 10:16 AM

http://www.macvideo.tv/editing/news/?newsid=326186...

Apple has released an update to Digital Camera RAW that adds support for six new cameras. This compatibility update, version 3.6, affects iPhoto and Aperture users. Five of the cameras are digital SLRs, including Canon's just-released additions to its EOS line, the 600D and 1100D. The Olympus E-5 is now supported, as are two Pentax DSLR cameras, the K-r and K-5. The Olympus and Pentax cameras were all released in September 2010. The Panasonic Lumix DMC-FZ100, a megazoom point-and-shoot camera..

Avid releases Media Composer 5.5

February 21, 2011, 10:15 AM

http://www.macvideo.tv/editing/news/?newsid=326186...

Avid has released an upgrade to its Media Composer video editing software for Mac and Windows -- along with new versions of its NewsCutter news editing tool and the Symphony finishing system. Media Composer 5.5, NewsCutter 9.5 and Symphony 5.5 gain the PhraseFind add-on. This allows editors to quickly find clips and segments by searching for words or phrases used in audio tracks. It uses the same Nexidia phonetic indexing engine found in the ScriptSync plug-in, which is designed to match...

Avid releases MC 5.5, targets FCP Users

February 21, 2011, 10:14 AM

http://www.macvideo.tv/editing/news/?newsid=326187...

Avid has released an upgrade to its Media Composer video editing software for Mac and Windows -- along with new versions of its NewsCutter news editing tool and the Symphony finishing system. Media Composer 5.5, NewsCutter 9.5 and Symphony 5.5 gain the PhraseFind add-on. This allows editors to quickly find clips and segments by searching for words or phrases used in audio tracks. It uses the same Nexidia phonetic indexing engine found in the ScriptSync plug-in, which is designed to match...

Toronto Avid User Group Overhauls Site

February 20, 2011, 07:51 PM

http://www.atug.ca

The Toronto Avid Users Group has done a major overhaul of their website and with this launch have announced a talk in March for local editors who want to learn from feature editors.

Il Dolce Libro

February 20, 2011, 04:29 PM

http://www.joyoffilmediting.com/?p=3462

Publisher Gremese Editore will bring out my second book, Film Editing: Great Cuts Every Filmmaker and Movie Lover Must Know in Italian in the next 6-12 months. It will beat the Mandarin Chinese edition by a few months. Editing pictures speaks a universal language and I am proud of all of us editors/editores for that.

One of the most simple, handy Quicktips ever

February 20, 2011, 04:28 PM

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

This Quicktip is a bit off the topic of editing and post-production but it’s a simple tip for Sunday and it can probably be utilized by most any editor who has a desk and has a lot of wires snaking up and around the desk. Credit for finding this one goes to Shane Ross of Little Frog in Hi-Def. He actually found it on Digg and his Twitter comment said it all: Why the hell didn’t I think of this?

Industry Legends: editor Michael Kahn Interview

February 20, 2011, 12:15 PM

https://www.aotg.com/industry-legends-editor-michael-kahn-interview/

Michael Kahn celebrates his 75th birthday with three new films coming out this year coming out of his cutting room. Associated with Steven Spielberg since the started working together on Close Encounters of the Third Kind in 1976, Kahn has taken home 3 Oscars and a parade of other awards an nominations. He & Spielberg are known as the last converts to digital editing and just this last year Kahn gave up his Moviola for an Avid as Spielberg directed his first digital movie, The Adventures of...

ACE EDDIE AWARD WINNERS ANNOUNCED

February 20, 2011, 11:57 AM

https://www.aotg.com/ace-eddie-award-winners-announced-2/

The American Cinema Editors held their awards last night and the winners are...

'Social,' 'Alice' win ACE awar

February 20, 2011, 11:53 AM

http://incontention.com/2011/02/19/social-alice-wi...

Alright, so I should have gone with what I said was the safe bet for the ACE drama Eddie. Rather than making history by awarding a film not nominated for the editing Oscar and giving it to the truly deserving contender, "Inception," the editors decided to rethink it and go with "The Social Network" instead. Fair enough.

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