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
Western Digital to Acquire Hitachi Global Storage
March 9, 2011, 07:07 PM
http://www.digitalproductionbuzz.com/2011/03/09/we...
Western Digital (WD) and Hitachi, Ltd. announced that they have entered into a definitive agreement whereby WD will acquire Hitachi Global Storage Technologies (Hitachi GST), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Hitachi, Ltd., in a cash and stock transaction valued at approximately $4.3 billion. The proposed combination will result in a customer-focused storage company, with significant operating scale, strong global talent and the industry’s broadest product lineup backed by a rich technology...
Avid Media Composer 5.5 is released!
March 9, 2011, 07:06 PM
http://www.videoguys.com/Blog/PL/0xea013b2de4d6687...
Avid Media Composer 5.5 is now availble for download purchase from the Avid website ($149 for MC5 owners). The download is for the Avid MC 5.5 application only, it does not include the 3rd party software Avid calls the Production Suite. Boxed units with Production Suite will begin shipping March 18th. The only software in the Production Suite that has been updated is the Boris Continuum AVX, which goes from ver 6 to 7. All the other 3rd party software remains the same.
Thunderbolt it seems that it has 2 sets of Specs
March 9, 2011, 02:09 PM
http://blogs.creativecow.net/blog/4417/more-on-thu...
So it's been a busy couple of weeks for me leading into NAB, but I wanted to post a bit more about THUNDERBOLT. To say the confusion about this new technology is amazing, even I had been given conflicting information, mostly because of the differences between the Copper and later Fibre versions of this technology, mainly about what can and can't be done.
Documentary Cutting: Editing Surviving Joburg
March 9, 2011, 12:29 PM
http://www.cutaway.co.za/post/3744685794/documenta...
Stephen Abbott, editor of Unhinged - Surviving Joburg, gave Cutaway some insight into editing this documentary film which will be featured at CWFF.
HPA Tech Retreat Explores Workflows, Stereo 3D...
March 9, 2011, 12:28 PM
http://www.btlnews.com/gear/hpa-tech-retreat-explo...
The Hollywood Post Alliance produced another sellout event as the 17th Annual HPA Tech Retreat brought together the leaders of the postproduction and broadcast industries for four days of seminars, panel discussions and technology demonstrations covering a broad range of issues that will shape the future of their world. This year’s event drew a record crowd of over 500 professionals, including representatives of leading studios, broadcasters, post production facilities and manufacturers...
Trapcode Particular gets Between Bears
March 9, 2011, 10:55 AM
http://www.redgiantsoftware.com/blog/2011/03/09/be...
We recently noted that Eran Hilleli won the Best Animation Vimeo Festival Award (2010) for his work on "Between Bears." In his post, Eran mentioned that he used Trapcode Particular for part of this project, so we asked him if he could break it down a little more to explain where and how it was used:
Frankenbyting
March 9, 2011, 09:00 AM
http://lfhd.net/2011/03/09/frankenbyting/comment-p...
No, that isn't some odd Frankenstein-vampire thing. It is a term that is often used by documentary editors to explain how we edit certain interview clips. Much like Frankenstein's Monster was made from body parts of different people, a "Frankenbyte" is a sound byte made up of statements from several sentences from an interview subject.
BURIED vs 127 HOURS
March 9, 2011, 08:54 AM
http://jaymckinnon.com/blog/movies/buried-vs-127-h...
A while back, I reviewed 127 Hours and how much I loved the editing. As a professional editor it made me think about how to be better and more creative when I’m at work. It doesn’t get much more inspiring than that.
Media Composer 5.5 Goes Live
March 9, 2011, 08:53 AM
http://splicenow.com/2011/03/08/media-composer-5-5...
Media Composer 5.5 began shipping today. Announced three weeks ago, the new release builds upon version 5 in many important ways:
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