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

Bret Stern Productions Acquires SoNo Studios

November 3, 2010, 03:27 PM

http://www.studiodaily.com/main/news/12692.html

Bret Stern Production, the Norwalk-based entertainment production company led by filmmaker Bret Stern, has acquired SoNo Studios, Southern Connecticut’s largest full-service state-of-the art sound stage and TV studio....

Review - Boinx Software’s FotoMagico

November 3, 2010, 03:18 PM

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

For me, besides Chroma keying, the most painstaking task as an editor is creating photo montages. It is a long and cumbersome process that no matter what plug-in you use inside your NLE, they always seem like way more work than the end result shows, and God forbid the client want to make it 10 seconds longer, because you may as well start again from scratch. Well, that’s where Boinx Software claims FotoMagico will swing in and save the day. Let’s see if it’s worth your time and money.

Dispelling the Myths: 2D to 3D conversion

November 3, 2010, 12:15 PM

http://www.postmagazine.com/Publications/Post-Maga...

Due to the incredible success of this year’s 3D releases, the studios are enjoying their best box office success in the history of the entertainment industry.

Turning Off Audio Track Names in Final Cut Pro

November 3, 2010, 11:24 AM

http://www.geniusdv.com/news_and_tutorials/2010/11...

In Final Cut Pro it can be very useful to not show the audio track names. Because the audio track name goes right over top of the waveform when you have them active, they can make seeing the waveform difficult. Especially at an edit where the name of the outgoing clip is right next to the name of the incoming clip. Depending on how zoomed in on the timeline you are this can make a significant amount of the waveform difficult to see.

Sharing PC formatted drives on a Mac

November 3, 2010, 11:18 AM

http://www.geniusdv.com/news_and_tutorials/2010/11...

With the popularity of Apple Macintosh, you may find the need to have a hard drive that can be used with both PC's and MAC's.

FCP - Displaying Source or Auxiliary Timecode

November 3, 2010, 10:54 AM

http://www.larryjordan.biz/tips/tip240.html

Here's a fast way to switch your display between timecode tracks.

Scaling in Adobe Premiere Pro CS5

November 2, 2010, 08:13 PM

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

A lot of people are talking about CUDA and the GPU in the context of Premiere Pro CS5. But the talk is almost always about speed, speed, and more speed. Yeah, using CUDA on the GPU to process a lot of effects does speed things up (a lot!) in many cases, but that’s not the whole story.

So Final Cut Pro 7 was to be the 64 bit release?

November 2, 2010, 08:10 PM

http://www.philiphodgetts.com/2010/11/so-final-cut...

Over dinner last night we were discussing the history of Final Cut Pro, various WWDC announcements and it suddenly struck me that Final Cut Pro 7 was originally going to be a 64 bit release, until Apple pulled the rug from under the Final Cut Pro team (as well as other developers, specifically Adobe).

Interview Clips

November 2, 2010, 08:08 PM

http://splicehere.org/2010/11/02/interview-clips/

Larry Jordan, editor of features and television and the founder of 2pop.com is building a new web site, with lots of interesting content: Hollywood Reinvented. He’s posted six short clips from an interview he did with me recently. Subjects include:

Editors and Assistants Panel

November 2, 2010, 08:06 PM

http://splicehere.org/2010/11/02/editors-and-assis...

Last month I participated in a well-attended panel discussion on the evolution of the editor/assistant relationship. A nicely edited video from the session has been posted by the sponsor, the post house AlphaDogs. Expertly moderated by Debra Kaufman, the panel included me, Diana Friedberg (co-author of the new book, Make the Cut: A Guide to Becoming a Successful Assistant Editor in Film and TV), and our terrific assistants Peter Mergus and Carsten Kurpanek.

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