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

I would like to coin a phrase – "Litter

December 15, 2010, 04:28 PM

http://blog.youdownwithfcp.com/2010/12/15/i-would-...

Today a co-worker and I were discussing the need for a word to describe a video that is simultaneously letterboxed and pillarboxed. I dislike that particular lapse in effort so much that the word "Litterboxed" seemed to be the best fit. So there. Run wild with it, internets.

The Best File Format Analogy Yet

December 15, 2010, 04:26 PM

http://www.studiodaily.com/blog/?p=5021

The "completely random Final Cut Studio stuff" blog I’m Not Bruce yesterday posted a little entry called Clients don’t understand Container Formats. It’s one of the most identifiable client-related posts I’ve read, anywhere, in some time. It also contains the best analogy I’ve come across to help explain to a client exactly why you have to know a bit more about that file deliverable they need ... i.e., you need a bit more information than a .mov file.

Project Collaboration/Syncing Application GridIron

December 15, 2010, 04:24 PM

http://nofilmschool.com/2010/12/project-collaborat...

GridIron Software has released Flow 2.0, a collaboration/syncing/management application that enables people to share and sync files over a network. Dubbed a "project operating system for creative professionals," the free "Flow Essentials" version comes with 4GB of online secure storage, allowing remote file storage, versioning, and team collaboration.

Editing the Legacy

December 15, 2010, 10:09 AM

http://www.tft.ucla.edu/profiles/scholarship/anne-...

An Oscar-winner for her work on David Lean's "Lawrence of Arabia" in 1962, Anne V. Coates ACE is still working on major feature films, at the age of 85, as one of Hollywood's most respected film editors. When editing students at TFT were offered an opportunity to receive hands-on instruction from this meticulous craftsman, famed for her sensitivity to nuances of charater and drama...

Pietro Scalia UCLA Interview

December 15, 2010, 10:06 AM

http://www.tft.ucla.edu/profiles/industry/pietro-s...

Far from regarding his editor as a mere technician, Scalia says, Scott encourages input on major narrative and expressive strategy. "It is only directors who are insecure who don’t want to hear suggestions," Scalia says. "A master such as Ridley Scott has no such anxiety."

Edit Fest Short Cuts Event

December 15, 2010, 09:37 AM

https://www.aotg.com/edit-fest-short-cuts-event/

For our first EditFest Short Cuts we decided to reach for the stars. We got two of them! On January 20th, 2011 at 7PM, at New York's Helen Mills Theater, please join us for an intimate discussion of the editing process through the work of film editor Craig McKay, moderated by distinguished author/editor Bobbi O'Steen. EditFest Short Cuts is produced by ACE and Manhattan Edit Workshop and presented by The Moving Pictures Collective NYC.

Episode 16: The one about piracy

December 14, 2010, 03:48 PM

http://www.theterenceandphilipshow.com/2010/12/epi...

With the US Government Accounting Office dismissing RIAA and MPAA "research" as being lacking in any factual basis, is unauthorized distribution hurting or helping the industry? Thanks as always to Zach Spell for editing making us sound smart!

Boris FX Announces New Boris Continuum Unit: Morph

December 14, 2010, 03:46 PM

http://provideocoalition.com/index.php/news/story/...

Boris FX, the leading developer of integrated effects technology for video and film, today announced that a new Boris Continuum Unit, Morph, is now available. The Boris Continuum Morph Unit allows Adobe After Effects artists to generate real-time static or animated image warps, animated image morphs between a pair of still images, and animated video morphs from video clips.

Avid Training Lesson (In France)

December 14, 2010, 02:21 PM

http://www.repaire.net/news_tests_tutos/news/les_f...

Satisfied at last in October, Avid has offered its visitors training workshops around the time of its flagship products: MediaComposer 5 and ProTools. We are very pleased to be able to make available Repairenautes exclusive! Here are the first wave of the workshop MC5 (same initials as a great rock band of the sixties;-))

With 12 days left until Xmas, here are the 12 hour

December 14, 2010, 09:40 AM

http://www.joyoffilmediting.com/?p=3283

On the twelfth hour of editing, my client brought to me...

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