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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

Creating 1917’s Intense, Immersive Sound of War:

January 6, 2020, 10:00 PM

https://www.asoundeffect.com/1917-film-sound/

Sound Supervisor Oliver Tarney on creating the intense, immersive sound of war for 1917:

How Lee Smith and Oliver Tarney Crafted 1917's Imm

January 6, 2020, 02:50 PM

https://www.motionpictures.org/2020/01/how-editor-...

If you caught last night’s Golden Globes, you saw Sam Mendes‘ World War I epic 1917 take home both Best Film (Drama) and Best Director for Mendes himself. 1917 bested some very steep competition, including Martin Scorsese’s mob epic The Irishman, Todd Phillips Joker, and Noah Baumbach’s Marriage Story. Mendes’ film is practically flawless.

Laika's Missing Link Scores a Golden Globe

January 6, 2020, 02:50 PM

https://www.rotoscopers.com/2020/01/05/laikas-miss...

It was the night of the 77th Golden Globe Awards, where the Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA) honours excellence in film and television. When it came to the Best Motion Picture – Animated category, however, the massive surprise came about when Laika’s newest stop-motion movie Missing Link turned out to be the grand winner of the award.

Finish your mix BEFORE you begin

January 3, 2020, 03:35 PM

https://sonicscoop.com/2020/01/02/how-to-finish-yo...

There’s a powerful concept in the world of productivity: “Finish your day before you start it“. This idea can also be applied to mixing or anything else in music production, with amazing results.

Chris Terrio Apologizes to ILM for Leia VFX Slight

January 3, 2020, 03:35 PM

https://nofilmschool.com/terrio-apologizes-to-ilm

If you've been on the internet the last few weeks its been impossible to avoid talk about Star Wars and its treatment of Rose Tico. She was only in Rise of Skywalker for a little over one minute long, and the general reason given by Christ Terrio was that she had much more time on screen planned, including a few scenes with Leia.

Red Shark Review of the Year - October 2019

January 3, 2020, 03:35 PM

https://www.redsharknews.com/production/item/6883-...

While we would never say that 8K has become standardised, it’s very much a known entity; we’ve all got a map in front of us and we know where we’re hiding, the argument is just about the finer details of the route and how long it will take to get there.

Apple Vs. RED: Was the REDCODE RAW Patentable or U

January 3, 2020, 03:35 PM

https://www.premiumbeat.com/blog/apple-vs-red/

In May, Apple filed a patent petition claiming that RED’s patent on REDCODE RAW was “Unpatentable” for a number of reasons. After the hearing, the court ruled in RED’s favor, stating that Apple’s legal team had not supported their claims sufficiently. This decision means that RED will retain the patent on its implementation of raw compression.

Editor For Once Upon A Time… Reveals The Scenes

January 3, 2020, 03:35 PM

https://lrmonline.com/news/quentin-tarantinos-film...

Clocking in at two hours and forty-one minutes, Once Upon A Time… In Hollywood fits the standard time length for a Quentin Tarantino film. Inglorious Basterds clocks in at two hours and thirty-three minutes, Django Unchained is two hours and forty-five minutes, and The Hateful Eight hits nearly two hours and fifty minutes. Long, detailed, dialogue-driven epics are common for Tarantino. However, in the case of Once Upon A Time… In Hollywood, the amount of footage cut from the film nearly equa...

THE WITCHER: Julian Parry - Overall VFX Supervisor

January 2, 2020, 04:37 PM

https://www.artofvfx.com/the-witcher-julian-parry-...

Julian Parry began his film career as a special effects technician in the early 1980s. He began working in visual effects in 1900 at Rushes Post Production and works on a large number of projects such as SEVEN WONDERS OF THE INDUSTRIAL WORLD, CAMELOT, TITANIC: BLOOD AND STEEL and VIKINGS.

Toy Story Revisited: The Making of an Unlikely Cla

January 2, 2020, 04:36 PM

https://www.slashfilm.com/toy-story-revisited/

(Infinity and Beyond is a bi-weekly series in which Josh Spiegel looks back at the history and making of every feature film in Pixar’s filmography. In today’s inaugural edition, he kicks off the column with the movie that started it all: 1995’s Toy Story.)

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