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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

Easily Create Realistic Water VFX with These New 5

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Thor: Ragnarok's visual effects used new tech

November 8, 2017, 02:59 AM

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One of the new characters introduced into the Marvel Cinematic Universe in Taika Waititi's Thor: Ragnarok is Valkyrie, the Asgardian warrior played by Tessa Thompson. She's important for a lot of social reasons, and is also a major part of the most incredible visual effects scenes in the movie.

This AI Turns Unrecognizable Pixelated Photos Into

November 7, 2017, 10:36 AM

https://www.fastcodesign.com/90149773/this-ai-turn...

Remember all the times you snickered when some TV character zoomed in on a photo and said “Enhance!” turning a blurred mess into a highly detailed, razor-sharp image? Now there’s a system–an artificial intelligence-powered image-scaling program called EnhanceNet–that will make that film trope impossible to laugh at, because it’s now a technological reality.

Hans Zimmer Names His ‘Favorite Film Composer’

October 31, 2017, 09:17 AM

http://www.indiewire.com/2017/10/hans-zimmer-meets...

Hans Zimmer is one of the most prolific film composers in movie history. An Oscar winner with 10 nominations to his name, Zimmer has worked with everyone from Christopher Nolan to Ridley Scott, Terrence Malick, Steve McQueen, Mike Nichols, and Ron Howard, among many others. He’s such a legend that to be named his favorite film composer would be a huge honor, and such is the case with Jonny Greenwood.

Logic Pros: What’s new in iOS & Mac music produc

October 30, 2017, 04:23 AM

https://9to5mac.com/2017/10/29/logic-pros-new-ios-...

This is the place to catch up on all the biggest product announcements, hardware, apps, synths, Logic/GarageBand instruments and so much more in the world of iOS/Mac music production. This week, we have loads of brand new instruments for iPad/Mac.

Lessons from Inside The Edit

October 27, 2017, 04:23 AM

https://jonnyelwyn.co.uk/film-and-video-editing/in...

If you've never checked out Inside The Edit, a superb online editing training course, then this post share a few thoughts on why it's worth your time and money.

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Composing for VR Games

October 26, 2017, 04:37 AM

https://soundandpicture.com/2017/10/lone-echo-comp...

Ready At Dawn’s new space-adventure VR game Lone Echo, available on the Oculus Rift, takes place on the Kronos II mining station that’s orbiting Saturn. The ship’s human captain Olivia Rhodes relies on her ECHO ONE service droid named “Jack” to help her face increasingly perplexing challenges that threaten the station’s functionality and habitability. Alone in space, her only lifeline is the technology that surrounds her.

Why FCPX? - 360 POV

October 25, 2017, 09:49 AM

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Last year, I sat through a discussion on these topics at the Final Cut Pro X Creative Summit in Cupertino. I had some interesting reactions, most of which included the word “puzzled.” How were the cameras positioned? What sort of magic had to occur to edit 360 video? How can a viewer with so much freedom be directed to see what I want them to see? How do stories get told?

How to create classic horror special effects

October 24, 2017, 05:17 AM

http://www.syfy.com/syfywire/how-the-pros-blow-up-...

Ever wonder what goes into some of the goriest horror film effects in films like Friday the 13th or Saw?

Learn the 5 Fundamental Ways of Using Sound in You

October 23, 2017, 12:30 PM

http://nofilmschool.com/2017/10/learn-5-fundamenta...

We take it for granted now, but there was a time when films were completely silent. Well, maybe not completely silent, as cinemas found ways in the early days to provide live music to accommodate silent pictures, but early movies lacked the rich, layered and dynamic uses of sound that help define modern filmmaking.

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