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

Michael Barenbaum Interview at SXSW

October 9, 2010, 12:28 PM

https://www.aotg.com/michael-barenbaum-interview-at-sxsw/

Paul Terry Walhus of AustinCast.com interviews Michael Barenbaum. Michael is a Film Editor, his latest movie is the Marconi Brothers about two rug sales men. Shot on 35 mm film and edited on Final Cut Pro. Debuted at SXSW 20008.

Looking for a Good Codec for Archiving?

October 9, 2010, 12:14 PM

http://www.larryjordan.biz/tips/tip215.html

The problem with any video codec is that it is a lossy codec. That is, it loses quality whenever you record something with it. Most of the time, that loss is not a problem. But sometimes you want to store your materials for a long period of time. For instance, you want to store historical footage from the 1930's. In this case, maintaining image quality with a format that is non-proprietary is critical.

Guy Maddin talks about his editing style

October 9, 2010, 12:13 PM

https://www.aotg.com/guy-maddin-talks-about-his-editing-style/

This is a clip from the Media Funhouse interview of Guy Maddin, which took place in May 2007 during the NYC run of "Brand Upon the Brain!" as a live theatrical experience (the film was shown at the Village East for one week's worth of screenings with a live mini-orchestra, Foley artists, a castrato singer, and a live celebrity narrator). The mention of Lou Reed refers to Reed's having narrated the film the night before this interview was shot. Maddin offers here his reflection on his work...

Why isn't satisfying customers enough?

October 8, 2010, 08:01 PM

http://www.philiphodgetts.com/2010/10/why-isnt-sat...

This week I had an unplanned trip to Boston to fill in at the Boston FCP User Group meeting for Rich Harrington who'd suffered a back problem and wasn't able to travel. I travelled American Airlines instead of my normal choice, JetBlue.

ASE Demystifying Codecs Pt. 4 of 12

October 8, 2010, 04:01 PM

http://www.artoftheguillotine.com/assocvideo.php

Australian Screen Editors presents "Demystifying Codecs", a seminar on video codecs by Chris Reynolds. This is part 4 of 12. Topics covered in this part include: Encoding, Compression, Dimesions, MPEG1, MPEG2, Windows Media, H264, Flip4Mac.

Master Multicamera Techniques is a must have book

October 8, 2010, 03:49 PM

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

Quite a few months ago I had a long conversation with editor Mitch Jacobson about multicam editing. The point of this conversation was to, hopefully, provide some good information on multicam editing for what was then his upcoming book about the topic. That book has finally gone into print and I picked up a copy not long ago and began reading it. Besides the much appreciated contributing writer...

Some writing for Post Magazine

October 8, 2010, 03:47 PM

http://wes.plate.net/2010/10/some-writing-for-post...

Last month I was in Amsterdam for the annual IBC trade show, a large and important expo for people in the broadcast and film industries. I have been going to IBC since 2003, my company Automatic Duck would exhibit with other plug-in companies in the Plug-in Pavilion. But 2010 was the first year where Automatic Duck did not exhibit. There are still a lot of good reasons to be at IBC, so I still traveled to Amsterdam for a few days.

Demonstrating Continuity with V for Vendetta

October 8, 2010, 11:44 AM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8xauSCz1mEk

Short Documentary on Continuity Editing in the film V for Vendetta.

Eps. 11 -T&P What if we Started Over

October 8, 2010, 09:30 AM

http://www.theterenceandphilipshow.com/2010/10/epi...

What would the production industry be like if we had no existing industry: no established production business, no guilds, no agreements, no contracts, no established workflows. How would we go about establishing something like broadcast television so people could still make decent middle class salaries, be creative and do what they love to do.

Improve QuickTime Movie Playback on Slower Systems

October 8, 2010, 09:27 AM

http://www.larryjordan.biz/tips/tip214.html

While H.264 is the star of the codec world at the moment because it creates small file sizes with great image quality, it is not always the best choice when you want to create a QuickTime movie. Why? Because H.264 requires a seriously fast computer to play back smoothly.

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