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

AVID MEETS ITS (FILM) MASTER

November 9, 2010, 11:06 AM

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

At the Editors Guild’s Hollywood headquarters on November 2, representatives from Avid and Digital Vision demonstrated the digital workflow that tightens the relationship between editorial and DI or color grading. Avid products specialist Casey Richards, Digital Vision senior product manager Bruno Munger and Digital Vision colorist Susumu Asano illustrated the way that Avid Media Composer and ISIS storage have a seamless interchange with Digital Vision’s Nucoda Film Master.

Restoring a Classic 'Bridge'

November 9, 2010, 11:05 AM

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

The high-definition Blu-ray format was made for the epic grandeur of filmmaker David Lean. Up until the November 2 release of The Bridge on the River Kwai (Sony Home Entertainment), though, we only had his final film, A Passage to India (1984), to relish in HD. But, thanks to the recent restoration by Sony's Colorworks, the Oscar-winning Kwai (1957) can finally be viewed in its proper CinemaScope aspect ratio, and has never looked as crisp and colorful. Indeed, among other things, the...

My Adobe (Non-)Switch Story

November 9, 2010, 11:04 AM

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

can clearly remember my first experience with Adobe Premiere. It was in the early 1990’s, and I was working full-time in the News Department at Wisconsin Public Television. I had managed to talk the news director into buying me a really new-fangled device – a desktop computer. I believe it was a first-generation Pentium, maybe 90Mhz. I had been into computers since about 1984, and had composed music and scored a lot of TV programs using Atari computers. Geekery was in my blood.

50.94 Is Not A Valid Frame Rate

November 9, 2010, 11:03 AM

http://provideocoalition.com/index.php/cmg_blogs/s...

I recently had a fellow motion graphics artist asked me what format used a 50.94 fps frame rate, as a client had requested delivery at this rate. 50.94 is obviously a typo based on 59.94 fps (the field rate for NTSC, and the North American speed favored for some HD media such as 720p for sports and news). But a quick Google search turned it up in multiple places where people should know better. For example, I found it in...

POST-PRODUCTION WEEK: EDITING – YOU KNOW NOT

November 8, 2010, 04:17 PM

http://www.elskid.com/blog/post-production-week-po...

Firstly, a big thanks to Oli Kember who inspired me to do Post Production week. For all that I know a lot about DSLRs now, I know way way way more about editing, I’ve been in the trenches ripping my hair out fixing stuff and hating every second of it... it can really kill you sometimes. So, I’ve set all this up with a promise to shed some light on the unsexy side of filmmaking. Shallow DOF can reduce grown men to tears...

POST PRODUCTION WEEK

November 8, 2010, 11:03 AM

http://www.elskid.com/blog/post-production-week

Something I hear over and over in conversations about DSLRs, particularly with photographers, is that people know bugger all about editing. I don’t care how gorgeous your footage is, and I’ve taken flak for saying this on Twitter, but videos, unlike photos, take place over time, and as a result, your skill as a filmmaker is about how you repay people for the time they elect to give you. Never, ever, forget that. This is why editors wield so much power.

Adobe Premiere Pro CS5 Helps Keep the Peace

November 8, 2010, 11:02 AM

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

This probably isn’t the usual article on a piece of non-linear editing software. There will be no discussion of professional workflows and how it’s used to create broadcast television or feature films. But rather it’s a discussion of how a modest beginning, dabbling with a new piece of software and one of its signature features has grown into more than just a passing curiosity.

Move Projects from FCP to AE Seamlessly (& Fre

November 8, 2010, 10:51 AM

http://jeffvlog.wordpress.com/2010/11/08/move-proj...

I am always on the lookout for things that can make my life easier... sleep in a can, comfortable shoes, great software. If you use Final Cut Pro and After Effects... do I have a find for you! I just finished a new book called Video Made on a Mac, and in the process of writing about Motion Graphics workflows, I’ve discovered an absolute gem, from a little place called Popcorn Island.

Show Reel

November 8, 2010, 01:07 AM

https://www.aotg.com/show-reel/

Show reel of work from the past 2/3 years

The Man who Made Avid PT 4 and 5

November 7, 2010, 10:17 PM

http://www.macvideo.tv/editing/interviews/index.cf...

Bill Warner is the man who had the vision, he's the man who made this happen. In this, the third episode of a five part series, Bill explains the frustration he felt at the linear editing process in a tape-based world and how he, turned this frustration to find a solution to the problem. As a result the world of editing has never been the same. Where once tape-based suites and film cutting rooms dominated, now the electronic non-linear way has become the accepted process.

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