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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

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
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
Why Are Apple's Prices So Damn High???

January 16, 2013, 06:28 AM

http://nofilmschool.com/2013/01/high-apple-prices/

More than anything, users appreciate the undeniable consistency (and therefore, customer confidence) that comes with any Apple machine or app. This applies to both consumers and professionals, though some of the latter may hesitate in days to come. Of course, achieving this consistency can be a double-edged sword — the very measures that guarantee the quality you’ve come to know and respect of Apple computing are the same tendencies that see them labeled as “notoriously controlling.”

#apple
Reasons To Avoid Digital Asset Management Systems

January 15, 2013, 02:44 PM

http://digitalassetmanagementnews.org/opinion/reas...

David Diamond, author of the DAM Survival Guide, Marketing Director at Picture Park and contributor to DAM News has written an article for CMSWire, provocatively titled: 5 Good Reasons to Avoid DAM Software. The item is partly tongue-in-cheek and uses a mix of Luddite arguments and deliberate reduction of DAM to its file storage basics (see the Google Drive point).

#digital asset management#dam#asset management#david diamond
Could Final Cut Pro X Be the NLE of the Future?

January 14, 2013, 08:42 PM

http://daredreamermag.com/2013/01/14/could-final-c...

One other thing. I wrote this review because a lot of reviews I’ve read were either passionate filmmakers pissed off (therefore biased against writing an objective review), veteran editors who have a financial incentive for you to get FCPX...

#fcpx#final cut pro x#nle#apple
Can 'Lincoln' win Best Picture w/o editing Oscar?

January 14, 2013, 03:06 PM

http://www.goldderby.com/news/3782/can-lincoln-win...

Only nine movies have won Best Picture without at least being nominated for the editing Academy Award since it was introduced in 1934. The last of these was "Ordinary People" in 1980.

#award#awards#academy#lincoln#oscars#ampas#best
Digital Asset Management Value Chain

January 13, 2013, 07:58 PM

http://digitalassetmanagementnews.org/features/the...

In 2011 and 2012, we assessed the prospects for the DAM sector with reference to the technology and business aspects of the industry. This year, we have elected to handle things slightly differently.

#digital asset management#dam#value chain
Vimeo Respects the Specs

January 13, 2013, 09:30 AM

http://nofilmschool.com/2013/01/vimeo-better-audio...

There’s no doubt that things can get a bit confusing regarding non-integer frame rates — a decimal-specific frames-per-second count isn’t exactly an intuitive aspect of video. Of course, beginners can’t learn such distinctions if they’re going unspecified — a fact Vimeo has recently (and finally) addressed in updating their compression guidelines. Even more importantly, Vimeo is slowly but surely raising the quality ceiling in its encoding of your media — albeit in audio-only, in t...

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