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

HPA Tech Retreat 2011

February 14, 2011, 08:19 AM

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

There’s a quiet gathering in Palm Springs every February. Many of the post-production industry’s leading luminaries, along with a gaggle of production folks, hangers-on, and ne’er-do-wells (including your correspondent) assemble for the Hollywood Post Alliance’s Tech Retreat, three and a half days of discussion about where the industry is and where it’s going.

Social Network Wins BAFTA for Editing

February 13, 2011, 05:26 PM

https://www.aotg.com/social-network-wins-bafta-for-editing/

Congratulations to Angus Wall and Kirk Baxter for winning the BAFTA for Editing THE SOCIAL NETWORK

Overwrite bin column layout upon changes

February 13, 2011, 05:23 PM

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

My editing user settings are constantly evolving. One things that changes a lot are the bin column layouts that I recall for various editing tasks. I use many different columns for both Avid Media Composer and Final Cut Pro. I very often resize columns and add or remove headings to saved layouts. Rather than always save a new heading or repeatedly change the same saved layout over and over I will save and overwrite an existing column layout.

Message from the cutting room of 'X Men'

February 13, 2011, 01:23 PM

http://www.chrisjonesblog.com/2011/02/message-from...

The other day, when the new X-Men movie trailer went live, I emailed Eddie Hamilton for his comments. Those of you follow my blog will know that Eddie is a close friend and contributor to the many things that we do. He is also editor on the new X-men film, 'X-Men: First Class'.

Fincher’s Musketeers Talk Shop

February 13, 2011, 12:39 PM

http://carpetbagger.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/02/11/f...

As a filmmaker, David Fincher has the reputation of an extreme perfectionist, so finely attuned to detail that he doesn’t trust anyone else to get even minor secondary shots. That vision earned him an Oscar nomination as the director of "The Social Network" – but what about the guys who have to work with him? While Mr. Fincher is celebrated for doing dozens and dozens of takes , what’s often forgotten is that other people then have to look at each and every one of those takes to put the fi...

Lights, Cameras... Computers

February 13, 2011, 12:29 PM

http://www.digitalzoo.com.au/lunchtime/lunch_docs/...

With its sleek black face, glowing video screens, and Darth Vaderesque controls, the device could easily be mistaken for a prop in yet another sequel to Star Wars. In fact, it springs from the fertile imagination of George Lucas, creator of the Star Wars trilogy, who calls it EditDroid. As connoisseurs of Lucas's movies know, 'droids - short for android, a word with Greek roots meaning automaton with a humanlike form - are the playful robots that populate his highly successful space operas.

Should be an interesting April for Apple Color

February 13, 2011, 12:27 PM

http://blogs.creativecow.net/blog/4247/should-be-a...

So NAB is rapidly approaching and as par for the course, we know nothing about Apple's plans for the event. We know they don't have a booth planned but will they announce anything at all? Last year we had a completely underwhelming (you might say embarrassing) presentation by Apple at the SuperMeet. What will we see / hear this year?

All that and then Some!

February 13, 2011, 12:26 PM

http://library.creativecow.net/griffin_nick/BCC-7-...

COW Forum Host, Magazine Writer, Web Writer, Podcast Leader, Advisor, Contributing Editor and long time Boris Final Effects Complete user provides an enthusiastic overview of BCC 7's sophisticated and capable visual effects plug-in suite in this article.

Smoothcam Filter in Final Cut Pro

February 13, 2011, 12:25 PM

http://jeffvlog.wordpress.com/2011/02/13/smoothcam...

Abba Shapiro, a speaker for FMC, uses a Video Filter to make a video shot on a handheld camera more stable to the eyes. He also explains exactly how the filter makes the video less shaky.

Animating with the Puppet Tool

February 13, 2011, 12:23 PM

http://blogs.creativecow.net/blog/4243/animating-w...

In this video tutorial Richard Harrington shows a quick technique used to animate and selectively warp an image inside of Adobe After Effect. Richard uses masking and refine edges to prepare the animation inside Photoshop.

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