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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

Oscar VFX Nominees: Adding That Touch of Grit

February 3, 2015, 01:38 PM

http://variety.com/2015/artisans/awards/oscar-visu...

Visual effects aren’t always the realm of the bright and the shiny.

Using the es2 Modulation Matrix in Logic Pro

February 2, 2015, 01:22 PM

http://www.askaudiomag.com/articles/using-the-es2-...

Joe Albano takes an in-depth look at how to make the most of Logic Pro's ES2 modulation matrix in this tutorial. If you're serious about modulation, this tutorial is for you.

Last Lift Shot VFX Breakdown

January 31, 2015, 01:24 PM

http://www.cgmeetup.net/home/last-lift-shot-vfx-br...

Here’s a look at some of the stages the shot went through. We used a real mix of simulated smoke and real filmed elements (used as 2D cards) for all the dust.

Lucas Rails Against Hollywood

January 30, 2015, 05:13 AM

http://www.tgdaily.com/happyplace/film/130681-geor...

In what’s certain to stoke the fires of Lucas haters everywhere, the man who created Star Wars just gave a speech at the Sundance Festival that sure to provoke the ire of many.

I Screen, You Screen, We All Screen for Green Scre

January 29, 2015, 05:38 PM

http://www.handheldhollywood.com/latest-news/i-scr...

What did you do last week? I mercilessly tore my living room apart and temporarily transformed it into a green screen (a.k.a. “chroma key”) studio in which I directed a short comedy called 2084. For as long as I can remember, my friends and I have joked about shooting 2084 on a massive soundstage with high-end gear and a huge crew — total overkill for this very silly, 3-minute short. Well, after ten years of that not happening, we finally decided to shoot 2084 with a tiny crew (four of us)...

Why Every Film looks sort of Orange and Blue

January 29, 2015, 01:49 PM

http://priceonomics.com/why-every-movie-looks-sort...

Maybe you haven’t noticed, but in the past 20-or-so years there’s been a real catchy trend in major Hollywood movies to constrain the palette to orange and blue. The color scheme, also known as “orange and teal” or “amber and teal” is the scourge of film critics – one of whom calls this era of cinema a “dark age.”

Review Fiddlewax Pro

January 29, 2015, 01:47 PM

http://www.askaudiomag.com/articles/review-fiddlew...

Fiddlewax Pro is an intriguing app for iPad that’s designed to let you compose without necessarily needing too many conventional musical skills. Billed as a music sketchpad and MIDI controller, it is surprisingly lightweight and futuristic-looking and does a good job of packing almost all its functionality into a single screen.

12 Essential Audio Filters and Plugins

January 28, 2015, 01:44 PM

http://www.askaudiomag.com/articles/12-essential-a...

There's audio filters and there's audio filters. G. W. Childs shares his top 12 audio effect filter tools for the modern musician and producer in this essential read of an article.

WHAT COLOUR IS THAT TEMPERATURE?

January 27, 2015, 08:45 PM

http://videoandfilmmaker.com/wp/index.php/tutorial...

Why does the colour of light get cooler as the colour temperature increases? If Lee 201 Full CT Blue converts 3200K tungsten light to 5700K daylight, why do two layers of 201 (or one layer of Lee 200 Double CT Blue) convert the same 3200K light to 26,000K? Is it actually possible to predict the outcome of combining correction filters?

IF YOU BUILD IT, WILL THE AUDIENCE COME?

January 27, 2015, 08:44 PM

http://videoandfilmmaker.com/wp/index.php/features...

The use of practical effects is a somewhat lost art in traditional filmmaking these days. Computer rendered effects are often far cheaper to source and don’t require set or crew time. But does the technological advancement in visual effects and its prolific use in cinema, come with a cost to the magic of movies?

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