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

Thelma Schoonmaker and the Movie Magic of Hugo

November 27, 2011, 04:46 PM

https://www.editorsguild.com/magazine.cfm?ArticleI...

There's a joyous moment in director Martin Scorsese's Hugo, opening November 23 from Paramount Pictures, when Sir Ben Kingsley–– portraying the pioneering French filmmaker Georges Melies (1902's A Trip to the Moon)—performs a magical feat onstage to thunderous applause. It's but a brief glimpse into a forgotten past.

Directing and Editing in the Third Dimension

November 27, 2011, 04:45 PM

https://www.editorsguild.com/magazine.cfm?ArticleI...

Sony began its 3-D training program several years ago with members of the International Cinematograph-ers Guild, Local 600. Earlier this year, Michelle Leigh, executive director of the 3-D Technology Center at Sony Pictures, invited members of the Editors Guild and the Directors Guild to participate. The aim of the program is to bring directors and editors up to speed on the particulars involved with shooting and editing in 3-D.

Second Annual Guild Post Labor Day Picnic

November 27, 2011, 04:43 PM

https://www.editorsguild.com/magazine.cfm?ArticleI...

The Editors Guild held its second annual family picnic on September 10 at the Equestrian Center at Calamigos Ranch in Burbank. About 400 Guild members and their families were there, feasting on barbecued chicken, hot dogs, Texas-style chili in a cup, corn on the cob, pasta and potato salad, and plenty of iced tea, lemonade and popsicles.

Extruding the Most Out of After Effects' 3-D

November 27, 2011, 04:43 PM

https://www.editorsguild.com/magazine.cfm?ArticleI...

Back in 1993, when After Effects started, it was a simple 2-D compositing and animation tool. Eighteen years later, the program is a robust 3-D tool with some very deep capabilities. In this tutorial, we’ll explore some of these features and offer some advanced tips for getting the most out of them. We’ll take a simple flat logo from Adobe Illustrator and turn it into a 3-D object, as well as explain how to add and animate a camera orbiting around it, how to add lighting and control light...

The Wall Street Shuffle

November 27, 2011, 04:41 PM

https://www.editorsguild.com/magazine.cfm?ArticleI...

One of the most frustrating aspects of the creative side of the film industry is that there's no corporate ladder, per se; no set way to get from A to B. That fact, however, can also be the most liberating, as demonstrated by picture editor Pete Beaudreau's journey to cutting J.C. Chandor's star- and tension-filled Wall Street drama, Margin Call, which just opened October 21 through Roadside Attractions and Lionsgate.

EDITOR'S NOTE Perfect Timing

November 27, 2011, 04:39 PM

https://www.editorsguild.com/magazine.cfm?ArticleI...

The Occupy Wall Street protest movement is continuously growing and expanding into cities worldwide, as is the news coverage of it. And it was not showing signs of letting up as this publication went to press in mid-October. Could director and J.C. Chandor and his team have asked for––let alone concocted or afforded––a better publicity campaign for the October 21 opening of their film Margin Call, a thriller involving the key people at a Wall Street...

Exporting Video - Alpha Channel from FCPX

November 27, 2011, 10:26 AM

http://www.premiumbeat.com/blog/exporting-video-wi...

For those unfamiliar, a very simple definition of an alpha channel is a "transparent" area of a video or still image (for the full technical definition check out the Wiki on "alpha compositing"). With regions of the frame removed you can layer graphics and footage, as well as place backgrounds behind your video.

End of November Rant

November 27, 2011, 10:24 AM

http://quintessential.posterous.com/end-of-novembe...

As we approach the end of November, 2011, and one of the fastest years to pass me by yet, I look back with fondness and desperation. It was a fun year definitely. My daughter just turned one; my son's three, for three months now. To watch their changes and contemplate their future is mind boggling. So quickly they grow and so much to look forward to.

Converting Media

November 27, 2011, 10:21 AM

http://www.larryjordan.biz/tips/tip355.html

Final Cut does not like compressed media. Here's how to convert it. Final Cut Pro was designed to work with original source media. It really doesn't like media that's been compressed. For instance, putting MP3 or AAC audio in Final Cut Pro's Timeline often results in audio with clicks, pops, and drop-outs.

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