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

Amsterdam SuperMeet less than a week away

September 8, 2010, 09:59 PM

http://www.scottsimmons.tv/blog/2010/09/08/amsterd...

If you’re heading to Amsterdam for IBC 2010 then you’ve probably got your plans well underway. This will be one of the big events for editors and post-production professionals as the 3rd Annual Amsterdam FCPUG SuperMeet will take place at the Grand Hotel Krasnapolsky.

Four-Frame Display

September 8, 2010, 01:27 PM

http://splicehere.org/2010/09/06/four-frame-displa...

When you drag clips around in the Media Composer timeline, the Composer window adjusts to show you what you’re doing. Instead of displaying the usual side-by-side images, it shows four frames: the A and B sides of the two cuts you’re adjusting as you drag. In some cases, this is super-slick and allows you to make quick and precise changes.

"Color Grading" + Q&A: Wed. Sept. 15

September 8, 2010, 12:19 PM

http://mopictive091510.eventbrite.com/

The Tao Of Color Grading Fresh off presentations to the Conneticut and Boston FCP User Groups, "The Tao of Color Grading" is back in NYC to present to MoPictive. Join professinal colorist / finisher and MoPictive President Patrick Inhofer as he takes you through real-world examples of color theory. He puts those theories into practice and gives you new insights into how your tools process your image. His goal is to give you a framework around which to approach your color grades on any...

Matrox MXO2 Mini Just Might Be the Missing Link

September 8, 2010, 11:26 AM

http://www.studiodaily.com/blog/?p=4141

If you look down under the "Categories" listing on the left side of this blog you’ll see the "Useful Tools" category. This is a category that I have long used to post links to interesting software/hardware/products that look like they would be handy in the editor’s toolkit. The tools are usually software, sometimes hardware. On occasion it might be a website or web tool that might make our lives easier.

Some good examples of where the new world of media

September 8, 2010, 08:26 AM

http://provideocoalition.com/index.php/editingpost...

I don’t normally post random links to videos, and you might think this isn’t worthy of a blog entry. But these two efforts are great examples of what creativity, stretching the boundaries of how we work and grocking the new tool sets can lead to. And this is just the beginning.

G-Technology G-SPEED Family Goes Enterprise-Class

September 7, 2010, 07:29 PM

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

AMSTERDAM, Sep 07, 2010—As the premium brand serving content creators and the professional audio/video (A/V) community, G-Technology(TM) by Hitachi today announced that its transitioning its entire G-SPEED RAID external storage family to high-grade, enterprise-class hard drives. With solutions ranging from the new four-bay G-SPEED(TM) Q with a quad interface to the storage performance mammoth, the 16-bay Fibre Channel G-SPEED FC XL, all G-Tech G-SPEED products will feature Hitachi Ultrastar(TM...

How stable is Final Cut Pro? Very.

September 7, 2010, 07:28 PM

http://blogs.creativecow.net/blog/3381/how-stable-...

As I've been on the Creative Cow Final Cut Pro forums about 9 years now, I have seen all manner of people whine and complain about stability issues with Final Cut Pro. Sometimes it's truly Apple breaking stuff or releasing versions of Quicktime or FCP before they're ready. But often, it's operator error / configuration error.

TIFF PUB NIGHT Thursday September 9, 2010

September 7, 2010, 05:35 PM

https://www.aotg.com/tiff-pub-night-thursday-september-9-2010/

It is that time of year again, the Toronto International Film Festival is upon us. This also means its time for our annual TIFF Pub Night. The event is co-hosted with Gordon Burkell from Art of the Guillotine one of the largest post – production websites.

I don't define myself by the tools I use

September 7, 2010, 11:33 AM

http://ronsussmanedits.blogspot.com/2010/09/i-dont...

One of the frequent mistakes rookie editors make is that they define themselves by the software they use as in "I am a Final Cut editor" or I am an "Avid editor".

Editing, and directing style affect brain activity

September 7, 2010, 11:05 AM

http://www.labspaces.net/view_news_comments.php?ne...

Using advanced functional imaging methods, New York University neuroscientists have found that certain motion pictures can exert considerable control over brain activity. Moreover, the impact of films varies according to movie content, editing, and directing style. Because the study, which appears in Projections: The Journal for Movies and Mind, offers a quantitative neuroscientific assessment of the impact of different styles of filmmaking on viewers' brains, it may serve as a valuable...

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