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

Alphadogs Turn Threats into Opportunity

November 26, 2009, 04:33 AM

http://www.postmagazine.com/ME2/dirmod.asp?sid=639...

AlphaDogs is a multi-room facility that handles a lot of cable work, particularly reality programming. The studio is posting Project Runway and Models of the Runway, and recently handled color correction on a History channel special that looks at Lee Harvey Oswald assassin Jack Ruby. AlphaDogs has four Avid Symphony systems, two graphics room, two Pro Tools audio bays, an Apple Color room, three Final Cut Pro finishing rooms, and 10 rooms with a choice of FCP or Media Composer.

Media Composer Review

November 26, 2009, 04:33 AM

http://www.postmagazine.com/ME2/dirmod.asp?sid=639...

Since last month’s comprehensive review of Media Composer V.3.5 by AlphaDogs’ Terrence Curren (see postmagazine.com) is still fresh, I’ll just touch on the newest features of 4.0, which are pretty significant.

AMWA Floats Workflows at SPMTE Conference

November 26, 2009, 04:32 AM

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

In recent years, the post-production process has seen a tremendous increase in the number and complexity of video formats being used, a long list that includes aspect ratios, compression ratios and frame rates. Individually, these choices address specific project needs or budgets. Collectively, they increase the demands on editorial to properly handle the material coming in, turning it over to other departments, and delivering a project according to spec and on schedule.

Post Predictions for 2010

November 26, 2009, 04:31 AM

http://www.postmagazine.com/ME2/dirmod.asp?sid=639...

Once again, it’s time for Post’s year-end outlook issue, which has us asking the experts about the Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats related to different aspects of our business.

Behind the Scenes with Film Editor Walter Murch

November 25, 2009, 04:31 AM

http://www.artoftheguillotine.com/news_articles/ar...

An 8 Min interview with Walter Murch: In the world of filmmaking, actors and directors dominate the spotlight. The people who actually assemble the film frame by frame and beat by beat toil in relative obscurity. Walter Murch is one film editor whose profile is much higher than most.

Avid Wish List Growl Notification

November 25, 2009, 04:30 AM

http://bradcordeiro.squarespace.com/journal/2009/1...

Directly from the Growl website: "Growl is a notification system for Mac OS X: it allows applications that support Growl to send you notifications." A windows version is also available from another development team. It's highly customizable, so you can have the notification display as a popup on your screen, or as an alert sent to your phone.

Paper Cut and Avid's ScriptSync

November 24, 2009, 04:29 AM

http://wes.plate.net/2009/11/paper-cut-and-avids-s...

I’m working on a promotional video, or maybe series of videos, for a local condominium complex and it presented itself as the perfect opportunity to try something I’d heard great things about: Avid’s ScriptSync.

MC4 plays nice with Snow Leopard

November 24, 2009, 04:26 AM

http://splicehere.wordpress.com/2009/11/23/media-c...

Avid released Media Composer version 4.0.4 this afternoon. The big news is that the new release is certified to work with Snow Leopard (OS X 10.6.2). The bad news is that Avid recommends a clean install of Snow Leopard, not an upgrade.

The Online From HELL!

November 24, 2009, 04:25 AM

http://lfhd.net/2009/11/23/the-online-from-hell-is...

Well, after a normal shift onlining two acts (we decided to do the online act by act), and then a marathon 25 hour online session over the weekend, I am done. And that is all I pretty much did...online. No color correction as there was no time. This was the fastest and most down and ditry online I have ever done. I finished 10 min before the producer had to jump onto a plane with the tape and drive with all the media managed footage.

Media Composer 4.0.4 gets Snow Leopard Support

November 24, 2009, 04:24 AM

http://lfhd.net/2009/11/23/avid-media-composer-4-0...

Earlier today Avid release Media Composer version 4.0.4. This version adds support for MacOS 10.6, or Snow Leopard. GREAT news for all those people who bought new Macs that only come with Snow Leopard installed. If you have Leopard, 10.5, then you can stick with what you have (MC 4.0.4 is compatible with Leopard, version 10.5.8.).

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