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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

Photoshop JPG Degrader Adds Image Articfacts

February 3, 2014, 11:12 AM

http://lesterbanks.com/2014/02/photoshop-jpg-degra...

Hydra labs recently released another Photoshop Plugin for the rendering and compositing image pipeline- JPG Degrader. The new plugin assists in adding the visual cues of classic JPG degradation to your rendered image making it easy to match the plate photography for easy compositing in Photoshop.

Filmmakers and Editing Pseudonyms

February 3, 2014, 05:55 AM

http://www.montrealgazette.com/entertainment/movie...

TORONTO - It's well-established that Alan Smithee has been the go-to pseudonym for film directors wishing to disown stinkers they'd rather not be associated with.

Anatomy of a Scene: Oscar-Nominated Editor

January 30, 2014, 01:31 PM

http://blogs.indiewire.com/thompsononhollywood/osc...

Best Picture nominee "Captain Phillips" is the ultimate in Paul Greengrass-style verite, given its life and death intensity and emotional epiphanies. More than just a fact-based heist gone bad, it raises deep concerns about our globalized world in conflict. Oscar nominee Christopher Rouse, who's already won an Academy Award for editing "The Bourne Ultimatum," discusses the pivotal attack on the Alabama, which was dangerous to shoot as well as challenging to cut.

Get started with Lightworks - 10 Free Tutorials

January 30, 2014, 08:12 AM

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

With the latest release of Lightworks 11.5 there are some exciting new features added to this powerful and professional editing platform. If you want to give it a whirl you can download a fully functional free version and follow this 10 part series to get started.

#lightworks on mac#lightworks 115#latest version of lightworks
Doing the re-edit thing

January 30, 2014, 05:44 AM

http://lafilm.net/?p=697

I’ve picked up a project we completed last summer. It was for a festival, but didn’t win. Too much to do, too little time, many other projects looming close by… you know… standard stuff. We thought of different ways we could use the piece, but time and again, it ended up on the back burner. Until now.

Learn To Edit - Great Advice From Pro Editors

January 30, 2014, 04:28 AM

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

Check out all of Manhattan Edit Workshop's Critical End Series in this giant round up of all 50 videos from 15 professional feature film, TV and documentary editors on the art, craft, politic and business of being a film editor.

#how to be a film editor#learning to edit#editing advice#feature film editors
Aspect Ratio Mattes for 16:9 Projects

January 28, 2014, 01:45 PM

http://24p.com/wordpress/?p=159

This link will download a bin of preset Matte Effects of commonly used aspect ratios that can be added to the top layer of an HD sequence. Since HD was introduced in Media Composer, the preset aspect ratio mattes still assume a 4:3 source and were never updated for 16:9. These mattes were created and adjusted for a 16:9 aspect ratio. The bin was created in v6.5.4.1 and should be able to be opened in most versions of Media Composer. The mattes are as close as I can get based on the parameters ava...

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