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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

CalDigit Thunderbolt Station 2 Announced

December 19, 2014, 02:58 PM

http://www.storagereview.com/caldigit_thunderbolt_...

​CalDigit has announced the Thunderbolt Station 2, their successor to the original Thunderbolt Station, which now features dual Thunderbolt 2 ports, dual eSATA 6G ports, HDMI, three USB 3.0 ports, Gigabit Ethernet, and Audio in/out. The Thunderbolt Station 2 also has the unique ability to be in either a horizontal or vertical position, which is ideal for people who have to manage with limited desk space.

Happy Holidays from Art of VFX and the VFX studios

December 19, 2014, 02:58 PM

http://www.artofvfx.com/?p=10360

As last year, here is a nice compilation of holiday cards from the VFX studios !

Creating the Dark and Powerful Sound of Godzilla

December 19, 2014, 06:09 AM

http://nofilmschool.com/2014/12/behind-scenes-look...

Recreating and revamping Godzilla's infamous roar was no small task for sound designer Erik Aadahl and sound editor Ethan Van der Ryn, and surely wasn't an undertaking they took lightly. This is a sentiment they expressed to SoundWorks Design when they shared how they approached designing the creature's thunderous shriek, however the details they divulged were scant at best.

Editing Boyhood

December 19, 2014, 06:09 AM

http://carpetbagger.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/12/17/b...

While some film editors may feel as if they’ve spent 12 years cutting a movie, for the editor of “Boyhood,” that actually turned out to be the case. Richard Linklater’s epic yet intimate story of 12 years in the life of a boy named Mason (Ellar Coltrane) required a different way of looking at the editing process for Sandra Adair, who has collaborated with Mr. Linklater as editor on all of his films since 1993’s “Dazed and Confused.”

Source Elements Release Source Connect 381

December 18, 2014, 06:08 AM

http://www.pro-tools-expert.com/home-page/2014/12/...

The team at Source Elements decided to demonstrate a live vocal overdub with a vocalist in Chicago being recorded on the AES trade show floor in Los Angeles, using cellphone data paths and a clever aggregating device. Check out the video.

Which is the Best V/O Mic - Mic Shootout

December 16, 2014, 06:07 AM

http://www.pro-tools-expert.com/home-page/2014/12/...

Following on from our previous post on how and why we are doing our Pro Tools Expert VO Mic shoot out (including the signal path) here is the second part of our blind listening tests. If you missed the first set of mics then you can find them here.

Quiet Art Announce New Defaulter Clip Gain Tool

December 16, 2014, 06:07 AM

http://www.pro-tools-expert.com/home-page/2014/12/...

Our friends at Quiet Art have announced their latest plug-in Defaulter, a Pro Tools clip gain normalizing plug-in. Quiet Art already make the popular Wave Rider plug-in. Defaulter is compatible with both ProTools 10 & 11.

How Sound Affects Taste

December 15, 2014, 01:53 PM

http://boingboing.net/2014/12/15/how-sound-affects...

White wine goes with fish and red wine goes with meat. But some new research from the Crossmodal Research Laboratory at the University of Oxford has apparently unearthed evidence of an implicit relationship between what we eat and what we hear -- between taste and pitch, as Scientific American reports.

8 Things You Must Know About the Film Business

December 15, 2014, 01:52 PM

http://nofilmschool.com/2014/12/james-schamus-film...

At the PGA East's Produced By Conference in October, former Focus Features CEO James Schamus offered up a treasure trove of wisdom about the film industry. Moderated by producer William Horberg (The Talented Mr.

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