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

Cutting Room Eps. 012 - Sam Kauffman

April 22, 2009, 12:35 PM

https://www.aotg.com/cutting-room-eps-012-sam-kauffman/

This week Gordon interviews film editor, director and academic Sam Kauffman. Sam is the author of Avid Editing which is published by Focal Press and now has a fourth edition out. Sam's main focus as a filmmaker and editor is documentary and his work includes: Massacre at Murambi, Living with Slim and South Africa: Building Democracy.

Get QuickTime Looking Right Without Re-Rendering

April 13, 2009, 12:58 PM

http://provideocoalition.com/index.php/mchristians...

I have in the past been critical of QuickTime as the standard for professional review of digital video; nonetheless, that is its status, and since you and I will be posting QuickTime movies for peers, clients and potential employers to view for the foreseeable future, we might as well get them right.

Suite Take

April 7, 2009, 07:01 PM

http://www.suitetake.com

This blog covers many aspects of film editing from technology, to technique.

Billy Fox and Motion

April 3, 2009, 12:48 PM

http://provideocoalition.com/index.php/smartin/sto...

Billy Fox returns to MacBreak Studio, and I talk with him about how he used Motion to create a shot "out of nothing" for the feature film Traitor starring Don Cheadle. The movie is embedded on the next page - click the Play Video link below, please give the movie a moment to load.

Keyboard Manifesto

April 3, 2009, 12:47 PM

http://provideocoalition.com/index.php/ssimmons/st...

When it comes to increased productivity and better efficiency while editing, saving time every place an editor can will help increase that productivity and efficiency. And we all know saving time is the client’s favorite thing as saving time means saving money. My favorite time saver in Final Cut Pro has been to remap the majority of the default keyboard setup. Since I began using FCP way back around 1999, one of my earliest thoughts was that the default keys weren’t very well thought out.

Episode 027 - The Rough Cut with Mat Feury

March 30, 2009, 12:42 PM

http://community.avid.com/blogs/theroughcut/archiv...

In today's show Oscar-winning screenwriter, big-time Hollywood actor, and critically-acclaimed director Ben Affleck. Ben called into our studio recently to talk about his new documentary, 'Gimmie Shelter'. A film that focuses on the humanitarian crisis in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. You'll also meet Ben Affleck the DIY technologist as he tells us about how a broke actor can configured his own non-linear editor.

5 Tips to Maintain Sanity in RED Post

March 25, 2009, 12:35 PM

http://provideocoalition.com/index.php/mchristians...

The RED ONE camera is innovative technology that will only improve. Someday, perhaps the good people at RED will anticipate the workflows most often used to work with their footage and offer specifications that help ensure their users’ success; for now, however, the following incontrovertale facts about RED often guarantee the need to make decisions more or less on your...

A COLORING HOOK FOR EDITORS

March 23, 2009, 12:34 PM

https://www.editorsguild.com/FromTheGuild.cfm?From...

In late February, an overflow crowd made up largely of picture editors and assistant editors attended a presentation at the Editors Guild’s West Coast headquarters by London-based FilmLight Ltd., makers of the Baselight real-time color grading system. The purpose of the evening, which was presented by FilmLight’s US product manager Peter Postma, was to provide an overview of the Digital Intermediate (DI) and color science processes, the active role that editors can play in that process...

Road Trip to Avid Video

March 20, 2009, 12:31 PM

http://hdfilmtools.com/2009/03/road-trip-to-avid-a...

Frank Capria has been at the forefront of digital content creation technologies since its earliest beginnings. New England based Capria was one of the first adopters of digital editing on the Avid Media Composer upon the systems release in 1989. His credits include work on landmark PBS series including, Eyes on the Prize, Frontline, Nova and American Experience. In 2001 Frank went on to found Kingpin Interactive, a New Media services company, which created award winning programming, websites...

Quicktime Conundrum, Part 2: Solved by our Readers

March 13, 2009, 12:26 PM

http://provideocoalition.com/index.php/aadams/stor...

A couple of great suggestions for creating flawless H.264 Quicktime—and Flash!—movies popped up in the comments section of my last article. They deserve their own article. Reader Brandon Cory suggests that exporting a Quicktime reference movie from Final Cut Pro in the Animation codec and then running that through Compressor’s H.264 encoder should retain the proper gamma settings.

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