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

What Was Cut From The Amazing Spider-Man?

July 3, 2012, 09:47 PM

http://www.vulture.com/2012/07/what-was-cut-from-t...

When you're making a would-be blockbuster, there are certain scenes and even subplots that may have to fall by the wayside before you arrive at a final cut, especially when you're trimming down The Amazing Spider-Man to a just-right two hours and sixteen minutes.

Grass Valley to Transition Pro Switcher Facility

July 3, 2012, 09:46 PM

http://www.studiodaily.com/2012/07/grass-valley-to...

Grass Valley will transition the development center where it builds and tests its line of professional switchers, the company confirmed today. The assembly and testing of the pro switchers will be outsourced to another U.S. manufacturer and the Nevada City, California-based center will continue to support development across its product lines.

Is the AVID ship sinking!?

July 3, 2012, 09:45 PM

http://www.hdwarrior.co.uk/2012/07/03/is-the-avid-...

Today brought more news from Avid that things are not too rosy in Burlington Massachusetts for the one time pioneer of NLEs. They are selling off the consumer M-Audio brand and more incredibly their consumer editing apps including Avid Studio for the iPad.

Create 3D Reflections with Trapcode Form

July 3, 2012, 09:44 PM

http://www.studiodaily.com/2012/07/create-3d-refle...

In this tutorial for AE Tuts plus, Jorrit Schulte explains how to create full 3D reflections in After Effects, with falloff of transparency and blur, using either Trapcode Particular or its younger sibling, Form. The new lighting tools in Form 2 and Particular 2 make it all possible.

Tips For Editing Documentaries

July 3, 2012, 03:01 PM

http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/EditingWhiz/~3/IlUc...

Cutting documentaries can be very difficult. Even if you are a veteran editor, there's always something new you can learn. I decided to ask the Twitter community what their tips and tricks were for editing documentary videos. Here are some I thought were helpful: Those are some great tips! Thank you all who contributed. One of...

Editors Unite!

July 3, 2012, 02:57 PM

http://avidassteditor.com/2012/07/03/editors-unite...

I'm not one to stand on a soapbox but this is sorta important since we are all in this together! There are some folks out there (not naming names) that don't award editors for their contributions to films. Sure, we've got the Academy Awards ACE Eddie Awards but we are sorta important and should...

Footage.net teams up with WESTDOC

July 3, 2012, 02:57 PM

http://www.postmagazine.com/Press-Center/Daily-New...

CULVER CITY, CA -- WESTDOC: The West Coast Documentary and Reality Conference (www.thewestdoc.com) has reached a sponsorship agreement with New York's Footage.net, an online aggregator of stock footage databases. Footage.net will serve as a "Marquee" sponsor across all platforms at the third annual conference, which will be held September 9 through 12 at the Culver Hotel and the Pacific Theaters in Culver City.

MPEG-LA Requests Patents for High Efficiency Video

July 3, 2012, 02:54 PM

http://www.streamingmedia.com/Articles/ReadArticle...

With H.264 firmly entrenched as the market-leading codec, the first of July witnessed the closing of one era and the beginning of another. On the new beginnings front, MPEG-LA, the licensing group that drove the MPEG-2 patent pool and attempted to generate a pool for On2 Technologies' VP8, has now put forth a request for essential patents surrounding a subset of video compression known as HEVC, or High Efficiency Video Coding.

Avid sells consumer business: video to Corel

July 3, 2012, 02:53 PM

http://www.macvideo.tv/editing/news/?newsid=336765...

Avid is to sell its consumer audio and video product lines to concentrate on the professional products it's best known for.

Compressor and Empty Batch Name Error

July 3, 2012, 02:52 PM

http://imnotbruce.blogspot.ca/2012/07/compressor-a...

Sometimes, albeit rarely, you'll see Compressor toss up an error sheet with something about "Empty Batch Name" when you hit Submit but little further help.

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