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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

Usability And User Experience In DAM

April 24, 2014, 04:34 PM

http://digitalassetmanagementnews.org/opinion/usab...

One of our featured DAM Vendors, Brandworkz, have contributed a featured article for us: DAM Good? Yes, It Can Be! – How To Make Users Love Your Digital Asset Management System. The item was written by Neil Monahan, their Digital Marketing Manager and describes the importance of making DAM implementations both easy to use and attractive:

Adobe CC Updates Put Some AE in Premiere Pro

April 21, 2014, 07:58 PM

http://nofilmschool.com/2014/04/adobe-cc-updates-p...

Despite the controversy surrounding Adobe’s switch to a subscription-based model, its Creative Cloud line of products has seen several useful updates for users. For instance, Adobe has added native RED DRAGON & CinemaDNG RAW support via GPU acceleration, plus improved round-tripping with its color correction software SpeedGrade.

Color Grading: Why A 1-Man Crew Needs These Skills

April 21, 2014, 02:59 PM

http://nonlinearpost.com/color-grading-why-the-1-m...

The role of the editor is changing drastically as roles have changed in other industries that use computers develop more powerful software. What ends up happening is one person begins to do roles that used to be performed by two or more persons.

#editing#color grading#education#fyi#information
Twitter Tips for Avid Editors Part 2

April 21, 2014, 01:45 PM

http://jonnyelwyn.co.uk/film-and-video-editing/twi...

A really helpful round up of tips for Avid Editors sourced from Twitter. You'll be sure to learn something new...

#tutorials#tips#avid media composer#avid editors#twitter
HitFilm technology: choose your workflow

April 18, 2014, 04:17 PM

http://community.hitfilm.com/index.php?/blog/1/ent...

This week the HitFilm landscape shifted dramatically with the release of HitFilm Plugins, bringing our technology to After Effects, Final Cut Pro X, Premiere Pro, Vegas and Motion for the first time.

A TRIBUTE TO DEDE ALLEN

April 18, 2014, 08:56 AM

http://filmmakersdiary.blogspot.ca/2014/04/a-tribu...

A tribute to Dede Allen, editor of such groundbreaking films as THE HUSTLER, BONNIE AND CLYDE and THE ADDAMS FAMILY, was long overdue. So on Saturday, April 5, the Motion Picture Editors Guild inaugurated its Dede Allen Seminar Room. The space is a perfect memorial for the late dean of New York editing, because she loved teaching her craft to others and she loved the guild. Local 700 president Allen Heim (ALL THAT JAZZ, VALMONT, AMERICAN HISTORY X) used a good old-fashioned splicer to cut the â€...

HitFilm Plugins out now for FCPX, Premiere Pro...

April 16, 2014, 06:03 PM

http://community.hitfilm.com/index.php?/blog/1/ent...

HitFilm Plugins are now available to buy from HitFilm.com, bringing HitFilm tech to After Effects, Final Cut Pro X, Premiere Pro, Vegas and Motion for the first time. With over 130 plugins ranging from visual effects to compositing and color grading, there's something for every project.

You should have almost no lip flap in any story…

April 14, 2014, 07:28 PM

http://blogs.nppa.org/editfoundry/2014/04/14/you-s...

I have a video editing pet peeve called lip flap. Lip flap is when you take a shot and the person or persons in the shot is talking while there is narration. Maybe they are talking to the reporter, or another person in the shot. What they’re really doing is distracting the viewer. Anytime I see a shot like this edited in a story I think it’s very distracting. I’m trying to listen to the narration and I’m trying to listen to what the person in the shot is saying. All that listening and Iâ...

The power of the Thumbnails

April 14, 2014, 04:10 PM

http://monicabriano.com/2014/04/14/the-power-of-th...

Sometimes the best way to come up with an idea is to use a paper and pencil to draw it out. It allows you to use your imagination and see if something will work. The big movie studios doses this, indie films, and other creative fields.

Song Metadata

April 13, 2014, 11:26 AM

http://24p.com/wordpress/?p=175

As you can tell from many of my blogs and comments on various forums, I am a big fan of metadata and how it can be used to enhance workflows both creatively and technically. One of the things that I always found limiting with Avid’s QuickTime AMA plug-in was its lack of metadata support other than the filename and a timcode track when available.

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