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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

Walter Murch Uses Premiere Pro on Feature Doc.

September 16, 2015, 07:50 AM

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/walter-murch-uses-p...

I guess that cat's out of the bag. Walter Murch is using Premiere Pro on his next project, a feature doc. How cool is that?

Dawn Of The Mocap Actor - VFXG

September 15, 2015, 04:19 PM

http://vfxg.org/profiles/blogs/dawn-of-the-mocap-a...

Given the rise in the use of motion capture in much of today’s feature film, television and videogame productions, if you’re a professional actor, director, producer working today you need to learn the unique challenges behind working with this very specific technology.

Advanced Green Screen Techniques for AE

September 15, 2015, 01:57 PM

http://clinttill.net/blog/2015/9/15/advanced-green...

I've always enjoyed using Keylight, the built-in After Effects chroma key tool. It offers so many more refinement options than the standard chroma key effect. If you are an After Effects user, I'm sure you have developed your own methods and best practices for using Keylight. However, editors will inevitably run across footage that's very difficult to key cleanly, whether it's stray hair, translucent fabric, or talent who decided to wear green on the day of the shoot.

Walt Disney, A Visionary Who Was Crazy Like a Mous

September 15, 2015, 09:23 AM

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/13/business/media/w...

Here is something that might surprise you: Walt Disney, that icon of American ingenuity, was in financial straits through most of his career. You probably thought he would have been a business genius — a model for others to study. But Disney was an atrocious businessman, constantly running his company into the ground. At the same time, though, he was a corporate visionary whose aversion to typical business practices led to the colossus that the Walt Disney Company became.

3 Reasons Vulnerability Will Elevate Your Craft

September 15, 2015, 09:23 AM

http://daredreamermag.com/2015/09/15/3-reasons-vul...

This week I posted perhaps the most personal and vulnerable piece of content I’ve ever publicly shared online. It’s part 2 of my “Of Fathers & Filmmaking” episode of my podcast “Radio Film School.” In it I talk about how my relationship with my dad planted the seed for me to become a filmmaker. I talk about being the older son of a single mom during my formative years. And I have a particularly vulnerable moment I debated including in the show.

Film emulation vs. colour grading

September 15, 2015, 04:59 AM

http://photo.it-enquirer.com/2015/09/film-emulatio...

Colour grading is making sure your footage has the right white balance, the correct exposure and colour balance throughout. Film emulation belongs to the advanced form of colour grading: suggesting a time of day and/or a mood, an atmosphere. You start with the correction process, then move on to the creation of a mood. For Final Cut Pro X, you have two plug-ins that help with setting the mood, but that do not pretend to be colour grading tools. One is potentially faster to work with than the oth...

A look at the evolution of Hollywood end credits

September 14, 2015, 10:40 AM

https://www.aotg.com/a-look-at-the-evolution-of-hollywood-end-credits/

In the beginning, Hollywood end credits were simple: "The End" or simply "End" and then a blank screen. And then things changed. Drastically.

#film#production#postproduction#credits#end credits
making a deliverable with blur effects

September 13, 2015, 10:38 AM

https://blogs.creativecow.net/blog/13872/making-a-...

A computer environment, all work should be saved, backed-up to three locations. Work should be done without corruption. I tell people sometimes the toughest part of operating a computer is to know when it is functioning correctly or incorrectly. It is my job to know and figure out the fastest way necessary to get the computer back to functioning.

Premiere Pro - PDFviewer - NoFilmSchool Review

September 10, 2015, 04:39 PM

http://nofilmschool.com/2015/09/if-you-rely-writte...

Robert Hardy, nofilmschool reviews PDFviewer. PDFviewer will be the best utility in your editing arsenal. You can open any PDF file inside the Adobe Premiere Pro interface. This will save you countless hours of switching back and forth to other applications and resizing the Adobe Premiere Pro interface. Great for Scripts, Transcriptions, Storyboards and Script Notes. On top of all that its green. Save a Tree!

#editing#premiere pro#pdfviewer
Alpha Channels FCPX to AE

September 10, 2015, 10:59 AM

http://www.automaticduck.com/blog/2015/9/3/alpha-c...

Automatic Duck Ximport AE can import media files with alpha channels into After Effects and set the alpha channel interpretation correctly, but it needs to know how to set the alpha interpretation and by default this information is not exported by Final Cut Pro X.

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