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

Grass Valley Adds 3 Gb/s Support to Growing STORM

February 18, 2011, 04:02 PM

http://provideocoalition.com/index.php/VideoGuys/s...

These next-generation PCI Express (PCIe) boards—the Grass Valley STORM 3G and STORM 3G Elite—help make editing affordable, faster, and more efficient, for all types of users; from prosumers working on personal projects to broadcast/professional users editing episodic television.

The iStoragePro Pocket View RAID Drive

February 18, 2011, 04:01 PM

http://library.creativecow.net/hofmann_jerry/iStor...

iStoragePro has been on my radar for the past year. I had an opportunity to run their "Pocket View" setup and was pleasantly surprised to find a rugged and fast Raid configurable portable unit I could take anywhere. Last year, I reviewed their Pocket drive, and was impressed by it, so I sure anticipated that this setup wouldn't disappoint ... and it didn't. Looks nice with a MacBook Pro, too!

Autodesk Announces Intent to Acquire Scaleform

February 18, 2011, 03:59 PM

http://www.studiodaily.com/main/news/12943.html

Autodesk, a leader in 3D design, engineering and entertainment software, announced today it intends to acquire Scaleform Corporation, a privately held user interface (UI) tools and middleware company, for approximately $36 million in cash. Scaleform’s leading technology has been licensed in the development of at least 800 games across major hardware platforms: PCs, Microsoft Xbox 360, Sony Playstation 3 (PS3), Sony Playstation Portable (PSP), and Nintendo Wii. The transaction is subject to...

NVIDIA Quadro 4000 for Mac or PC

February 18, 2011, 03:59 PM

http://provideocoalition.com/index.php/VideoGuys/s...

In a nut shell, many tech support issues we run into are graphics card related. While you may be able to save some bucks going with a gaming card, we feel confident that if you invest in a Quadro4000, you’ll be happy you did!

Bruno Munger Joins ALT Systems

February 18, 2011, 03:57 PM

http://www.btlnews.com/community/whos-where/bruno-...

ALT Systems, a full service systems integrator and workflow solutions provider, has appointed Bruno Munger as director of technical sales. Munger will collaborate with ALT Systems’ customers to design workflow systems, integrate hardware and software, and adapt technical infrastructures for the most demanding postproduction and visual effects work. His new position is effective immediately.

Editors Angus Wall and Kirk Baxter and The Social

February 18, 2011, 02:41 PM

http://www.studiodaily.com/filmandvideo/currentiss...

The skeleton of every film is a screenplay, but few can boast as strong a bone structure as the one provided by screenwriter Aaron Sorkin for The Social Network, the fast-paced, fast-talking story of fast times behind the scenes of Facebook. Moving self-assuredly among a multiplicity of different settings — they include the Harvard campus where Mark Zuckerberg's ideas were born, the Henley Royal Regatta rowing event where Zuckerberg's classmates lose a race by a whisker, and the noisy...

Craig McKay Takes Short Cuts

February 18, 2011, 12:11 PM

http://www.moviemaker.com/editing/article/craig_mc...

American Cinema Editors (ACE) and Manhattan Edit Workshop had the inspired idea to create a series called Short Cuts in order to "get that EditFest feeling all year long." The intention in both cases was the same: To create a deeper understanding of the editor’s invisible art by having master film editors discuss and screen their work for film students, editors and enthusiasts. But instead of having panels of editors for an entire weekend, Short Cuts would focus on one esteemed editor and take...

Two FCP tips for today’s Quicktip

February 18, 2011, 11:56 AM

http://provideocoalition.com/index.php/ssimmons/st...

Today’s a Reader Quicktip that is actually two tips from Final Cut Pro and After Effects trainer Clay Asbury. One tips is how he likes to setup his default FCP timeline settings and one is about using FCP’s Effect Availability option.

The Five Stages of Editing: Denial, Anger, Bargain

February 18, 2011, 10:53 AM

http://guerillashowrunner.com/2011/02/the-five-sta...

Editing the series – let’s say three weeks? Nah, two week – Ok, Bob, one and a half weeks. That should be, like, 3 days to review all the footage, 2 days to do a rough assembly of the episodes, and maybe another 3 days to polish. No worries.

Final Cut Friday: New Quicktip on Denoising

February 18, 2011, 10:44 AM

http://www.redgiantsoftware.com/blog/2011/02/18/fc...

In this video, Apple Certified Master Trainer, Simon Walker, shows you how reducing noise in your clips not only makes them look better but also enables your compression codec to act more efficiently, reducing the file size of your exported videos.

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