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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

How Ghostbusters 2016 Approached Slimer and Stay P

July 19, 2016, 05:44 AM

https://www.inverse.com/article/18414-ghostbusters...

hen director Paul Feig embarked on making a brand new Ghostbusters movie, one of the many challenges he faced would be how to realize a host of supernatural beings. The original Ivan Reitman films had made stunning use of practical and optical effects to bring the ghosts to life. But in 2016, of course, advanced computer generated imagery techniques were available to the filmmakers, and virtually required for a big blockbuster.

A Look at the Techniques of Thelma Schoonmaker

July 17, 2016, 02:39 PM

http://nofilmschool.com/2014/08/influential-editin...

Of all our modern directors, there is perhaps none with a more eidetic memory than Martin Scorsese; defined as an ability to recall precise images, sounds and objects, three of the main elements of motion pictures, Scorsese seems to remember every shot in every film he has ever seen, and probably some films he hasn't seen yet. It's what makes him such a complete filmmaker; he's a master of technique, able to conjure any cinematic effect he likes, and yet he never makes a film that feels less tha...

Sound Design Heaven

July 14, 2016, 09:25 AM

https://randythomblog.wordpress.com/2016/07/14/sou...

Most great sound design sequences have stylized visuals, sparse dialog, and sparse music.

How To Edit an Independent Feature Film

July 14, 2016, 03:50 AM

http://jonnyelwyn.co.uk/film-and-video-editing/how...

Check out this extended interview with Green Room and Blue Ruin editor, Julia Bloch on how to edit an independent feature film, and learn lessons on how to get that all important first feature credit...

#indie feature#independent feature#julia bloch#green room#blue ruin
What if Every Film Were Edited Like Requiem for a

July 13, 2016, 09:14 AM

http://nofilmschool.com/2016/07/watch-what-if-ever...

A new video applies the fast-paced editing of 'Requiem for a Dream' to other iconic movies, such as 'Memento' and 'Psycho.'

The Art of Editing: a Craft History

July 13, 2016, 09:13 AM

http://www.mentorless.com/2013/05/24/the-art-of-ed...

Last February I shared a video of editor Eddie Hamilton talking at an Avid event about his career and how he worked his way through two drastically different editing experiences, Kick-Ass and X-Men First Class. A reader commented, wondering what was all the fuss about editors, since they seemed to him to be technicians doing what they were asked to by the (real artistic force behind a movie) director.

Pixar in a Box

July 11, 2016, 05:56 AM

https://www.khanacademy.org/partner-content/pixar

The series, a collaboration of Pixar Animation Studios and Khan Academy, sponsored by Disney, covers Effects, Patterns, Rigging, Animation, Environment Modeling, Character Modeling, Crowds, Sets & Staging, and Rendering.

VFX of Independence Day: Resurgence

July 7, 2016, 05:41 AM

http://oneperfectshotdb.com/2016/07/exclusive-behi...

A whole host of visual effects companies worked on Roland Emmerich’s Independence Day: Resurgence, helping the director destroy new cities with even bigger alien spaceships and scarier creatures. Here at One Perfect Shot we’ve asked several visual effects supervisors from those companies about some of their most challenging scenes to work on from the film.

DaVinci Resolve 12.5 Training

July 7, 2016, 04:17 AM

http://jonnyelwyn.co.uk/film-and-video-editing/dav...

Discover the hundreds of new features and improvements in the latest 12.5 release of DaVinci Resolve in this free training round up and check out my review of Alexis Van Hurkman's 4.5 hour walk through of every new feature in detail.

#davinci resolve#colour grading#resolve training#davinci resolve 125
Using a Palette Gear Controller to Edit and Grade

July 7, 2016, 02:27 AM

http://jonnyelwyn.co.uk/film-and-video-editing/usi...

Discover Palette Gear - a programmable and interactive control surface for your creative software. Find out how it works and whether it's worth the money in this detailed review, including four free customised profiles for Premiere Pro.

#premiere pro#hardware#editing gear#palette gear#gear review#control surface

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