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

Make Our Myths 2013 remix

March 11, 2013, 05:37 AM

http://www.karenpearlman.net/1/post/2013/03/make-o...

The proposed "reforms" to Australian Content rules has once again raised the question of the purpose of the Australian screen production industries, as the battle lines are once again being drawn to protect the telling of "our own stories".    The battle is important and I encourage you to sign the petitions, which you can find...

Adobe Prelude: Organize, Log and Rough Cut

March 11, 2013, 05:36 AM

http://www.premiumbeat.com/blog/adobe-prelude-orga...

Adobe Prelude makes it easy to log your video footage, create subclips and rough out video editing sequences. See how integrating this app into your workflow can speed up post production.

Ae and Colby Fulton

March 11, 2013, 05:36 AM

http://blogs.adobe.com/aftereffects/2013/03/ae-col...

20 years ago, I was introduced to After Effects. Created by the enigmatic CoSA corporation. After Effects was an artifact from the future – the natural extension of Photoshop, projected into the fourth dimension. It took my work into a radical new direction, allowing me to move and combine imagery in ways I had only imagined.

Major improvements in Vignette and Power Window

March 10, 2013, 05:33 PM

http://www.creativeimpatience.com/major-improvemen...

Some of you have complained that my plugins sometimes take a lot of memory to run, and that they are not CUDA accelerated. Well, GPU acceleration will have to wait for a moment longer, but I have coded a few improvements to the Power Window and Vignette which will result...

A FCPX/RED Feature Film Workflow, Part 1

March 10, 2013, 05:32 PM

http://wemakemovies.org/2013/03/final-cut-pro-xred...

It’s literally shocking that a product from Apple happens to be the best kept secret in post. Pretty much everyone I come across is dumbfounded when I tell them that Final Cut Pro X (FCP X) is my non-linear editing platform of choice. And to be honest, I half feel like I shouldn’t be writing this article. Why? Well, part of me selfishly wants to keep this workflow to myself so I can keep my competitive advantage. Part of me wants to keep delivering projects in half the time I used to, but st...

IMDb Pro Plans to Downgrade Editors

March 10, 2013, 01:31 PM

http://www.screeneditors.com/

In their new version of IMDb Pro there are plans to downgrade Editors so they do not appear on the front page of a film. The ASE believes that the Editor's contribution to a film is vital and downgrading Editors shows a clear lack of understanding of the film-making process. Please contact IMDb and let them know you think they should keep Editors as a main production credit.

Steven Cohen on Avid's beginnings...

March 10, 2013, 12:36 PM

https://www.aotg.com/steven-cohen-on-avids-beginnings/

Part one of Gordon's interview with Steven Cohen, author of Avid Agility. In this episode Cohen discusses the early experiences of cutting digitally as the first user of an Avid for a studio film.

How Attack Of The Phantom Made Eps. II Watchable

March 10, 2013, 08:39 AM

http://whatculture.com/film/star-wars-how-attack-o...

Star Wars is no stranger to the spectre of a phantom editor – most will know the tale of how Star Wars: A New Hope was “saved in editing,” not by George Lucas, but by John Jympson. This version of Star Wars (dubbed the “Lost Cut”) was a complete disaster: according to an article in Star Wars Insider #41 by David West Reynolds, it contains about 30-40% different footage from the final version, and to this day the Lost Cut has been seen by very few eyes. Within it, there are scenes that ...

Will Accounting Woes at Avid Spark Big Changes

March 10, 2013, 08:37 AM

http://nycppnews.com/2013/03/will-accounting-woes-...

What’s happening with Avid? Will it fail or be bought? I came across a thoughtful article addressing these and other aspects of Avid’s latest financial crisis, posted on the blog portion of Screenlight’s site. Chris Potter wrote it; he’s a principal in this Toronto-based company that allows realtime video viewing, sharing, and feedback.

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