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

Eat Pray Love, cut on FCP

August 18, 2010, 12:01 PM

http://www.macvideo.tv/news/index.cfm?olo=email&ne...

Eat Pray Love, a new Columbia Pictures feature film based on the Elizabeth Gilbert novel of the same title and starring Julia Roberts, was edited entirely in Final Cut Pro. Apple has posted a page detailing the editing team's immense task of turning 70 hours of footage shot in four different countries into a two hour film--all on a tight time-frame.

Editors Discuss Their Craft at EditFest LA

August 18, 2010, 09:57 AM

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

The American Cinema Editors’ (ACE) third annual EditFest LA took place the first weekend of August at Universal Studios. It was a veritable feast of editing talk. The five panel discussions covered a lot of ground––from breaking into the business and making the transition from assistant to editor, to analyzing scenes and talking shop. The opening panel, Welcome to EditFest, moderated by the organization’s president, Randy Roberts, A.C.E., highlighted just how much the field of editing ha...

The Comedy of Cancer

August 18, 2010, 09:56 AM

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

"It’s a comedy about cancer, so there will of course be dramatic undertones to a lot of the material," says David Dworetzky one of three editors on The Big C, which premiered on Showtime on August 16. "But we have to keep in mind that we’re a comedy. It’s easier to forget than one would think." The Big C is a comedy about a woman (Laura Linney) with cancer who resolves to live life to the fullest. However, she doesn’t tell anyone she’s sick, so her family and friends are confused by...

Looking for Mr. Goodeditor

August 18, 2010, 09:55 AM

http://normanhollyn.com/2010/08/16/looking-for-mr-...

Note that the award is called "Best Film Editing" not "Best Film Editor." That’s a crucial difference for me. Editing is truly collaborative, so it’s not really possible to say who made the editorial decisions that result in the film that we see. The editor/s accept this award as representatives for the film’s editing, but there is...

When Avid Met FilmLight

August 18, 2010, 09:52 AM

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

Nonlinear editing manufacturer Avid and color scanner/grader manufacturer FilmLight jointly unveiled a new collaborative workflow recently that enables editors and colorists to work in an iterative, nonlinear fashion. At venues in Burbank and Santa Monica, hundreds of post-production professionals attended the demonstrations, which featured FilmLight’s Baselight color grading system and Avid’s newly-introduced Media Composer 5.0 editing system, as well as its DS compositing and finishing...

Another useful Boris tool: Continuum 3-Way Color

August 18, 2010, 09:51 AM

http://www.studiodaily.com/blog/?p=3916

I was surprised to see an email comes across the tubes today with a press release announcing a new $99 3-Way color grading plug-in from Boris FX. The Boris Continuum 3-Way Color Grade Unit is now available for editors as another option for color correction within a number of host applications including Apple Final Cut Pro, Apple Final Cut Express, Apple Motion, Adobe After Effects, and Adobe Premiere Pro.

New Avid Pro Tools HD Series Interfaces

August 17, 2010, 01:06 PM

http://www.avid.com/US/press-room/Overture?

Avidtoday introduced a series of newly-designed hardware and software solutions designed to enhance the quality and performance of Pro Tools|HD, the industry’s leading digital audio workstation. The new HD Series interfaces—HD I/O, HD OMNI and HD MADI—offer customers flexible configurations to support a variety of analog and open digital formats for audio recording, mixing and playback. Additionally, new HEAT (Harmonically Enhanced Algorithm Technology) software allows customers to add the...

Editing Eat, Pray, Love

August 17, 2010, 11:58 AM

http://www.postmagazine.com/ME2/dirmod.asp?sid=&nm...

The movie, like the book, follows Gilbert from New York to Italy, where she indulges her senses; to India, where she explores her spirituality; and to Bali, where she finds love and the balance she has been seeking. But punching that ticket cinematically was a daunting challenge for director Ryan Murphy and producer Dede Gardner. And logistics were easily their biggest challenge. To faithfully translate Gilbert’s journey from page to screen, the filmmakers lobbied to shoot the movie entirely.....

MPEG-2 Encoders, Part 2

August 17, 2010, 11:58 AM

http://digitalcontentproducer.com/videoencodvd/rev...

In the first half of this month's article, I looked at the usability and performance of five MPEG-2 encoding tools: Apple Compressor, Cinema Craft Encoder MP, Innobits BitVice, Sorenson Media Squeeze, and Telestream Episode Encoder. In this issue I'll discuss comparative quality and detail what happened when I tried to import the files into DVD Studio Pro.

Avid honored by the Academy of Television

August 17, 2010, 11:57 AM

http://www.avid.com/US/press-room/Avid-honored-by-...

Avid today announced that it has been honored by the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences with an Engineering Plaque for Avid Media Access (AMA) for its role in dramatically improving the process of working with tapeless media – by eliminating time-consuming transcoding processes and saving time and money in the production process.

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