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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

THE WOLF OF WALL STREET Interview

December 31, 2013, 07:10 AM

http://collider.com/thelma-schoonmaker-wolf-of-wal...

Martin Scorsese‘s The Wolf of Wall Street is now in theaters, and for those who aren’t familiar with the film, it’s based on the memoir of Jordan Belfort, and stars Leonardo DiCaprio as the hard-partying, drug-addicted stockbroker who was indicted in 1998 for security fraud and money laundering and served a 22-month federal prison stretch. The film also stars Jonah Hill, Margot Robbie, Rob Reiner, Jon Bernthal, and Matthew McConaughey. For more on the movie, watch the trailer.

Avid DMF Considerations

December 30, 2013, 04:34 PM

http://24p.com/wordpress/?p=141

One of the many new features that were part of the 7.0.0 release was Dynamic Media Folders or DMF. DMF allows for media services to be applied to folders as a set of rules and actions and processed whether the Media Composer application is running or not.

Plotagon

December 30, 2013, 04:33 PM

http://24p.com/wordpress/?p=140

In the course of my “industry research” I came across a very cool little application called “Plotagon“. It is a simple integrated script and storyboard application with real time playback and voices of what is written, very similar to a gaming engine...

'American Hustle': Parallel Storytelling and Share

December 28, 2013, 06:41 PM

http://www.creativeplanetnetwork.com/2-pop/news/am...

Hot off his success with Silver Linings Playbook, writer/director David O. Russell is back with the year-end release of American Hustle. The film (co-written with Eric Singer) was inspired by the FBI’s true-life Abscam sting operation of the late 1970s. It tells the story of con man Irving Rosenfeld (Christian Bale) and his partner...

Does FCPX render Faster on Mac Dual GPU

December 28, 2013, 06:39 PM

http://www.barefeats.com/tube02.html

Final Cut Pro X 10.1 features "optimized playback and rendering using dual GPUs in the new Mac Pro." That begs the question: "Will it optimize a Mac Pro tower with dual GPUs?" We happen to have two Radeon HD 7970s on loan from MacVidCards. They are 'kissing cousins' to the FirePro D700s offered as the top GPU option for the 2013 Mac Pro. So we did some quick testing.

My Two Favorite 7.0.3 Bug Fixes

December 27, 2013, 12:20 PM

http://24p.com/wordpress/?p=132

Win Van den Broeck does an excellent job of listing all the available fixes and “new” items in Media Composer v7.0.3 in his blog. For me, my two favorites are listed as bug fixes in the 7.0.3 Read Me, that border on being new features as they start enabling new workflows, or re-enabling old ones.

Giving Voice to Metadata

December 27, 2013, 12:20 PM

http://24p.com/wordpress/?p=131

I think anyone using PhraseFind, ScriptSync, and SoundBite appreciates what dialogue can bring in finding what you’re looking for as part of the editorial process. At times it is akin to finding a needle in a haystack. So it was interesting to see the Apple patent on voice-tagging photos and using Siri to retrieve them as part of the claims expanding the capabilities of voice based interaction with Apple devices. It will be seen as new and innovative if and when it hits a future version of iOS...

How to build a 4K Hackintosh on the cheap

December 27, 2013, 12:20 PM

http://9to5mac.com/2013/12/18/how-to-build-a-4k-ha...

Over the years, building ‘Hackintosh’ computers has become both a lot easier and more popular. For those unfamiliar, a Hackintosh is essentially a machine running OS X on non-Apple approved and manufactured hardware. There are many reasons to build a Hackintosh instead of buying a Mac directly from Apple. They can be more expandable, faster, have more features and configurations, run quieter and can be a great learning experience. One of the biggest reasons to go down the road of building yo...

Schoonmaker on The Last Temptation of Christ

December 25, 2013, 12:33 PM

http://www.hitfix.com/in-contention/thelma-schoonm...

Talking with Thelma Schoonmaker recently, it became quickly apparent that I wasn't even going to scratch the surface of her career's work with Martin Scorsese in a single piece.

FCPX Not for Everyone? (feat. Art Guglielmo)

December 24, 2013, 03:44 PM

http://digitalcinemacafe.com/2013/12/24/fcg010-fcp...

Never say we’re biased on FCPX Grill. Art found the show on the iTunes and has been listening since the beginning. He had some points he wanted to share with me and one day via twitter, we got into a discussion that was very interesting. He was commenting that we got a little to snarky (my word, not his) about other systems and wanted to point out the “other side of the story”. So, trying to be fair and balanced (not like those guys), I decided to have him on the show. Within hours I had h...

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