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

Finally back to P2

January 28, 2010, 08:20 AM

http://lfhd.net/2010/01/27/finally-back-to-p2/

After working with HDV for just over a year, I am finally working with Panasonic P2 again. I was finally able to convince my boss to shoot some recreations with the P2 Varicam. We were able to do this because his normal shooters were busy, and he wanted to see what all the hullabaloo was all about. Sure, we’d be mixing this footage with the bulk of a program that was shot on HDV, captured as ProRes, but because of the style of this recreation, it should stand out fine.

Trailers: Trash or Treasure

January 27, 2010, 08:20 AM

http://www.joyoffilmediting.com/?p=2310

As a digital editing systems trainer in the 90s and 00s, I enjoyed training and demoing for all types of editors. For a session, day, or week I got to inhabit their worlds and see firsthand their unique challenges, methods, and triumphs. None surprised me more than a veteran trailer editor. So this post and the next will be devoted to the joys of trailer editing and the works of the always uncredited trailer editors.

Breaking the First Rule of NLE

January 27, 2010, 08:19 AM

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

When last we spoke, I had announced my intention to break The First Rule Of Editing - to actually upgrade my editor in the middle of several ongoing productions. My reasons were threefold...

Putting Images Together

January 27, 2010, 08:18 AM

http://blogs.nppa.org/editfoundry/2010/01/26/putti...

The first reason for editing was longer films. The next idea was lets put these images together and tell a story. You’re a storyteller. It doesn’t matter if you are editing a news package, a documentary, a film or an online feature using stills, It’s all storytelling. Putting the images together to try and tell a story is editing. It’s the beginning of editing, it’s also the middle and the end of editing. Every edit should be made for the story.

Cutting Room Eps. 024 - Steven Rosenblum Pt. 2

January 26, 2010, 12:48 PM

https://www.aotg.com/cutting-room-eps-024-steven-rosenblum-pt-2/

Here's part two of my interview with Steven Rosenblum. In this part we focus on 3D editing. The video we mention is the youtube link below look to the 7:35 mark for the yoyo part.

The Clip info Window

January 26, 2010, 08:17 AM

http://splicehere.wordpress.com/2010/01/26/the-cli...

Here’s a feature that’s been around forever, but many people don’t seem to be aware of it. Say you want to find a piece of data logged for a particular clip. You open the appropriate bin, but the column containing the info you’re interested in isn’t displayed...

ASE Members Win Awards

January 25, 2010, 08:16 AM

https://www.aotg.com/ase-members-win-awards/

The ASE would like to congratulates its members who picked up awards. The Avid Award for Best Editing in An Australian Short Film went to Mark Burnett for GPS. GPS, tells the story of Thompson, a seven-year-old runt with a gift for direction,who has one dream in life - to be the voice of a GPS navigator. It was a real hit with the audience.

Why Most Workflows are Inefficient

January 25, 2010, 08:16 AM

http://editmentor.wordpress.com/2010/01/25/compare...

Everyone always says "there’s a million ways to cut this" yet rarely ever sees examples of it. Well, you’re in for a treat, courtesy of the students of Bellevue College in Seattle, Washington. Their professor, Robert Backstrand, worked with us to build the entire curriculum of his editing classes around footage available at Editmentor.com. Here’s a sampling of Copier Wars edits from students who prove creativity is indeed alive and well.

Compare Edits! Copier Wars

January 25, 2010, 08:15 AM

http://www.philiphodgetts.com/2010/01/24/why-are-m...

In my experience few productions – be they film or television – are well planned from a workflow perspective. It seems that people do what’s apparently cheapest, or what they have done in the past. This is both dangerous – because the production workflow hasn’t been tested – and inefficient.

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