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

'Black Swan' Blurs the Lines

December 6, 2010, 11:13 AM

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

Editor Andrew Weisblum, A.C.E., came to Black Swan with Aronofsky’s The Wrestler already on his credit list; he first met the director when he was a visual effects editor on The Fountain. In prepping for Black Swan, Weisblum and Aronofsky talked a lot about the film’s genres and its editorial style. They also watched numerous horror, psychological thriller and dance movies, mainly referencing the moments of horror or terror. "It was about how those moments were executed and which ones were a...

Editor Tim Mertens Finds the Shape of the Story

December 6, 2010, 11:06 AM

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

Disney Studios' Tangled is an irreverent and visually dazzling three-dimensional animated story of Rapunzel (Mandy Moore) and the charming thief Flynn Rider (Zachary Levi). Rapunzel's 70-feet-long golden hair has magical properties, which have led Mother Goethel to imprison the young girl in a lonely tower for her own selfish reasons. Before her 18th birthday, Rapunzel decides to escape, letting her hair down for a new life of adventure.

Hellcats Keeps Its Editors Jumping

December 6, 2010, 11:04 AM

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

"Every episode has a big production number––either a dance or cheer scene that is choreographed to a specific song," says Debby Germino about Hellcats, the new TV series she co-edits with Christopher Cooke, A.C.E., and Neil Mandelburg, A.C.E. "It’s exciting to get dailies in and become so energized watching these amazing dancers do these incredible flips and acrobatics."

Disk storage revenue goes up in Q3

December 6, 2010, 10:58 AM

http://www.macvideo.tv/editing/news/?newsid=325189...

Worldwide disk-storage-systems revenue during the third quarter was US$7 billion, growing by 18.5 percent compared to the third quarter last year, IDC said in a statement. The capacity of disk storage systems reached 4,299 petabytes, growing by 65.2 percent compared to the previous year's third quarter.

Kicking the tires on The Foundry’s Storm beta

December 6, 2010, 10:49 AM

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

It was a busy week this past week as November changed to December and The Foundry released their long discussed Storm product as a public beta free download. Storm is a "RED Digital Cinema Camera Production Hub" and has been described by RED’s Ted Schilowitz as REDCine-X on steroids. After kicking the tires on Storm for a few hours over the weekend I’d say it’s ...

Useful Tools for Editors: Test Gear 2.5

December 5, 2010, 10:52 AM

http://www.studiodaily.com/blog/?p=4965

A few weeks ago we posted about Scopo Gigio, an add-on for Adobe After Effects that brought video scopes to AE. Another longtime supplier of AE scopes is Synthetic Aperture, with its Test Gear product. Just this week Synthetic Aperture released version 2.5, which brings full 64-bit, CS5 compatibility. Here’s the Test Gear 2.5 feature highlights (from the Synthetic Aperture website):

Creating Motion Graphics with After Effects

December 5, 2010, 10:49 AM

http://crishdesign.com/books/Creating-Motion-Graph...

Trish and Chris Meyer share seventeen years of real-world film and video production experience inside the critically acclaimed Creating Motion Graphics with After Effects. More than a step-by-step review of the features in After Effects, you will learn how the program thinks so that you can realize your own visions more quickly and efficiently. This 768-page full-color book is packed with tips, gotchas, and sage advice that will help users thrive no matter what projects they might encounter.

When it absolutely has to be there

December 4, 2010, 03:59 PM

http://digitalfilms.wordpress.com/2010/12/04/when-...

A lot of the productions we post these days are delivered electronically – either on the web or as DVDs (or Blu-rays). Bouncing a finished product to an FTP site is a pretty good method for getting short projects around the world, but often masters or longer DVDs still require shipping. For many of us, FedEx is a mainstay; however, if it has to get halfway around the world by the next day, then even FedEx falls short.

Gotta Hand It To The Kid

December 4, 2010, 03:54 PM

http://blogs.creativecow.net/blog/3911/gotta-hand-...

Whew! Now that was lots-o-editing! Worked on the show all Thursday and Friday, and have 4 segments completed and approved by the rep (still waiting on client approval) and almost done with the 5th and have a start on the 6th... when it's all said and done, there's 12 segments in addition to the 3:00 open, the open montage, close and bumpers. I'm enjoying it, though, as I love to edit and thus far, things have been coming together quite well with few technical set backs.

COMBINING MULTIPLE EXPOSURES: DYNAMIC RANGE TRICKS

December 4, 2010, 11:24 AM

http://www.elskid.com/blog/combining-multiple-expo...

A while back I came across an image on the RED user forum which was a grab from an HDRx clip. The pic showed something pretty incredible, a shady barn and a very bright, sunlit exterior, seen through a door and both were exposed, if not perfectly, at least well enough so that you could ...

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