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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

Happy 20th Birthday Adobe After Effects!

January 17, 2013, 08:11 PM

http://elainemontoya.me/2013/01/17/happy-20th-birt...

Happy Birthday After Effects! It’s hard to believe it’s been 20 years. While I didn’t know you from birth, you came into my life when you were a couple of years old – just before your new family at Adobe adopted you. Not unlike a toddler in their terrible two’s my first experience with you was a bit overwhelming. Let me explain. My background was graphic design. You were my first move into the world of motion graphics. And for that, I am forever grateful. But I must admit, it took a bi...

#adobe#after effects#ae
Review: Matrox DS1 Thunderbolt docking station

January 17, 2013, 05:02 PM

http://www.macworld.com/article/2024589/review-mat...

Apple’s MacBook Air is thin, light, and great for traveling, but when you get to your desk, the ritual of plugging in a keyboard, external monitor, speakers, and an external hard drive can feel anything but convenient. For ethernet users, the MacBook Air’s (as well as the Retina MacBook Pro’s) lack of an ethernet port can be problematic if you don’t have an Apple Thunderbolt Display or a Thunderbolt to Gigabit Ethernet Adapter.

Balancing Processing Power and Memory with Squeeze

January 17, 2013, 04:58 PM

http://blog.sorensonmedia.com/2013/01/balancing-pr...

We often receive questions from prospects and customers about optimal server hardware specs for best performance when using Squeeze Server. While this subject can be a White Paper or very long topic, I’ll attempt to cover some summary information that we’ve discovered– I’ll also request this to be a conversation, as we’d like to hear from customers and their real-world experience in the field.

'Iron Man' Editor Develops a '21st Century Moviola

January 17, 2013, 04:14 PM

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/iron-man-edi...

Jon Favreau’s go-to editor Dan Lebental -- whose credits with the director include Iron Man, Cowboys and Aliens and Elf -- started his career editing film, and he loved it, even when he cut his finger. “It was such a badge of honor to touch film,” he said. “I realized that is one of the things we lost. I miss interacting directly with the media.”

SMPTE Standards 101

January 17, 2013, 12:53 PM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEJW1Se4e5c&feature...

SMPTE Standards 101Speaker: Peter Symes, Director, Standards and Engineering, SMPTE As you may know, SMPTE is the premier standards development body for the motion imaging industry. What you may not know, however, is how those standards are developed. Peter Symes, SMPTE's Director, Standards and Engineering will discuss the process behind development of SMPTE Standards. Mr. Symes will explain why standards are important and who is involved in the standards development process.

7 Recommended No-Budget Post-Production Tools

January 17, 2013, 12:51 PM

http://filmmakermagazine.com/63006-7-recommended-n...

Being an independent filmmaker means we are often times working with very little money but still making our projects happen. We use any tools and tricks we can get our hands on to help us finish or enhance our films. Of course these have to fit within our budgetary constraints. Here is a list of post production tools that are affordable for the no budget filmmaker.

#post#production#tools#no budget
Below the Line: Editing the Crash in 'Flight'

January 17, 2013, 12:31 PM

http://carpetbagger.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/12/05/b...

In some ways, the job of film editors is to make their work invisible. They hope that audiences don’t notice the editing and see only that a clear path has been drawn to the heart of the film’s story.

#editor#editing#film editor#post#flight#crash scene
My FCPX Workflow

January 17, 2013, 07:57 AM

http://daredreamermag.com/2013/01/16/my-fcpx-workf...

This is part 3 of a 3-part series on FCPX. In part 1 I covered whether or not FCPX is the NLE of the future. In part 2 I talked about some things to be mindful of. Today I want to quickly run down my workflow.

#workflow#fcpx#final cut pro x
Is video editing in the cloud real?

January 17, 2013, 07:40 AM

http://broadcastengineering.com/blog/video-editing...

In the past, video editing has always been tied to a place, the edit bay. The Moviolas and Steenbecks of film were joined by linear tape editing suites. In the days of quad and C-format, these were large and very expensive. Non-linear editing, typified by Avid, transformed the process of editing video from a linear process to non-linear, much more like film editing. Even terms like “bins” were borrowed from film.

#editing#video#cloud#post
Building a 30-sec. Adobe MAX Ad with CS

January 16, 2013, 03:29 PM

http://blogs.adobe.com/educationleaders/2013/01/bu...

I announced a few days back on my personal blog that I am speaking on Edge Animate at Adobe MAX this year. Also included in that post is a quick, 30-second video ad for the session.

#adobe#cs6#nle#creative suite#max#ad#advertisement

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