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

PICNIC FOR POST

September 24, 2010, 09:54 AM

https://www.editorsguild.com/FromTheGuild.cfm?From...

On Sunday, September 12, the Editors Guild hosted a family picnic at Calamigos Ranch, next to the Los Angeles Equestrian Center in Burbank. Serena Kung, the Guild’s Director of Membership Services organized the event. All told, there were just under 500 guests taking in the All-You-Can-Eat Barbeque and the family-friendly games.

Adobe's New Plenoptic lens

September 23, 2010, 05:06 PM

https://www.aotg.com/adobes-new-plenoptic-lens/

Adobe's new plenotic lens allows you to refocus a shot after it's taken. It basically is made up of smaller lenses that allow you to giving you control over infinite depth of field in post. Check out the video

We are so fortunate to be paid to be creative

September 23, 2010, 04:58 PM

http://ronsussmanedits.blogspot.com/2010/09/we-are...

Despite my pension for bitching about our business, which I will admit I tend to do a bit too much, I feel so fortunate that I am able to make a living doing something I enjoy. I am 50 years old and my passion for filmmaking hasn't subsided and has actually increased since I started freelancing a few years ago.

It needs to look like Avatar & we only have $5

September 23, 2010, 03:20 PM

http://ronsussmanedits.blogspot.com/2010/09/it-nee...

Occasionally, in the 20+ years that I have been a editor a client has presented storyboards with a budget that was far too low to effectively execute within their budgetary limitations. I would wonder were is the person at the agency telling the client that "these lofty and ambitious goals can not be done within their budget and here is an idea that will work with the money you have".

#40: Secondary Color Correction with Garbage Matte

September 23, 2010, 12:37 PM

http://avidscreencast.com/2010/09/40-secondary-col...

So you want to change the skin tones in a shot by doing a secondary color correction. You’re using the methods outlined in ASC #16 (and of course, they work incredibly well!), but there’s that nasty balloon in the shot that has a skin-tone-like color but that you don’t want to affect. What you need now, my friend, is a garbage matte. A garbage matte restricts the key to applying only to a specific section of the image.

Configuring a Mac Pro for Editing

September 23, 2010, 10:03 AM

http://digitalfilms.wordpress.com/2010/09/22/confi...

Nearly any modern laptop or desktop computer has enough horsepower to run the leading graphics, editing or encoding applications. The right choice depends on your need for expandability, inter-connectivity and/or performance with specific formats.

My Post House: SFedit

September 23, 2010, 10:01 AM

http://digitalcontentproducer.com/desktoppost/dept...

John Coen, founder of SFedit, has spent the last 12 years transforming his facility into what it is today: the full-service production studio that high-profile clients, from major networks to global corporations, trust to deliver cutting-edge quality to any project.

A video for Post-Prodcution

September 23, 2010, 10:01 AM

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

This very well produced and very topical video is making the rounds today. I saw it via Twitterer beerad who is one of the co-creators. It certainly took someone some time and effort and as a post-production nerd who gets most of the references in the video I thank them for it! Motion graphics people will probably enjoy it most of all. NSFW.

Perspectives on Editing: Advice for Assistants

September 22, 2010, 04:42 PM

http://www.oscars.org/video/watch/ev_editing_03_ap...

Film editors Anne Coates, Donn Cambern, Walter Murch, Lois Freeman-Fox, Nancy Frazen, Mark Goldblatt, John Carnochan and Kent Beyda describe the qualities they look in apprentice editors.

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