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

Mixing Voice and Music Fast in FCP

January 20, 2012, 09:21 AM

http://blogs.creativecow.net/blog/11080/mixing-voi...

Have you ever had a producer tell you to cut a few shots out of your video after you already made the perfect mix using clip overlays, keyframes, and rubberbands? Here is an old school technique I use that prevents this frustration. It keeps audio very flexible with the use of through-edits, crossfades, and the roll tool. Check it out and be happy!

After Effects QuickTip- Saving Layer Styles

January 20, 2012, 09:19 AM

http://www.claygasbury.com/2012/01/effects-quickti...

If you have worked with Photoshop a bit, you are probably familiar with Layer Styles. If not they let you apply drop shadows, bevels, etc. to your text to stylize it and make it more readable. You can also access them inside of After Effects. They do not live in the Effect Menu like standard effects, but are under the Layer Menu (or you can right click on a layer in the Timeline Panel and apply them there.)

Blackmagic Launches HyperDeck Shuttle 2

January 20, 2012, 09:18 AM

http://www.governmentvideo.com/TabId/67/Default.as...

Blackmagic Design launches a new version of its popular HyperDeck Shuttle Solid State Disk recorder, the HyperDeck Shuttle 2, which replaces the existing model and adds broadcast quality 10-bit recording and playback to the Avid DNxHD format.

Making a kinetic text music video

January 20, 2012, 09:17 AM

http://www.fcp.co/motion/49-news/705-making-a-kine...

We have seen kinetic text done before, but not with 600 layers in Motion 5! Was Motion up to the task, the details after the break. Motion expert and long time forum poster Adam Scoffield kindly sent us this example of his work on a rap video called No Regrets.

FCP: Telling Tales of Lost Love

January 20, 2012, 09:15 AM

http://www.tvtechnology.com/article/fcp-telling-ta...

You might not have noticed, but… it's tough to be abandoned. Jilted. Passed over. You're right… it's sad. I was sought after, wooed, and, with the encouragement of those around me, I gave in, and let the passion carry me away. It was a beautiful romance—so many wonderful moments—but now it's all over. I'm left with nothing, tossed aside like last week's braciole.

The Final Cut

January 20, 2012, 09:14 AM

http://www.tvtechnology.com/article/the-final-cut/...

LOS ANGELES: No Los Angeles production company and post facility has been a bigger supporter of Apple Final Cut Pro than Bunim/Murray Productions, the company that helped launch the genre of non-scripted, reality TV with staples like The Real World and Road Rules. Not only had they moved from Avid to Apple editing solutions, but they were also an early adopter of Apple's Xsan shared storage networks, thus helping to pioneer collaborative workflows within the Apple ecosystem.

Archion adds Avid project sharing to EditStor ES

January 20, 2012, 09:11 AM

http://broadcastengineering.com/products/archion_e...

Continuing to introduce products that leverage its more than 10 years of experience supporting Avid media workflows, Archion Technologies (www.archion.com) is now offering Avid project sharing on its EditStor ES Shared Storage System (http://www.archion.com/prod-san-sys-EditSTOR-ES.php). EditStor ES provides real Avid project sharing that enables complete collaboration between multiple Avid editors simultaneously working on the same open project.

Former Avid Exec to Head up Newtek Marketing

January 20, 2012, 09:10 AM

http://www.tvtechnology.com/article/former-avid-ex...

SAN ANTONIO–Carter Holland, who most recently was vice president of corporate marketing for Avid Technology, has been tapped as the new executive vice president of worldwide marketing for Newtek, a provider of portable live production, video editing, 3D animation and special effects tools...

The 2012 Splice Vine Survey

January 19, 2012, 03:33 PM

http://www.splicevine.com/the-2012-splice-vine-sur...

Thanks to everyone who has checked out the Vine since the re-launch last April. In the last year I've written about everything from FCP X going rougue to why we shouldn't just "occupy" the edit suite. I've gotten a lot...

Blackmagic Design Releases HyperDeck Shuttle 2

January 19, 2012, 03:33 PM

http://provideocoalition.com/index.php/news/story/...

Blackmagic Design today released a new version of its popular HyperDeck Shuttle Solid State Disk recorder. HyperDeck Shuttle 2 replaces the existing model and adds broadcast quality 10-bit recording and playback to the Avid DNxHD format for the same low price of USD345. HyperDeck Shuttle 2 is shipping now and available from Blackmagic Design resellers worldwide.

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