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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

HitFilm Plugins out now for FCPX, Premiere Pro...

April 16, 2014, 06:03 PM

http://community.hitfilm.com/index.php?/blog/1/ent...

HitFilm Plugins are now available to buy from HitFilm.com, bringing HitFilm tech to After Effects, Final Cut Pro X, Premiere Pro, Vegas and Motion for the first time. With over 130 plugins ranging from visual effects to compositing and color grading, there's something for every project.

Get Creative with FX in Ableton

April 16, 2014, 12:57 PM

http://www.askaudiomag.com/articles/get-creative-w...

Finding "happy accidents" in Ableton Live is useful for generating creative sounds. Tadhg Leonard explores how to use Novation Lanchpad with Live 9's FX to make vocal samples exciting. [Video]

Waves Offering Special Prices On Their Signature 

April 16, 2014, 12:56 PM

http://www.pro-tools-expert.com/home-page/2014/4/1...

Six personalized hybrid plugins created in collaboration with GRAMMY Award®-winning mixing engineer Manny Marroquin (Rihanna, Bruno Mars, Alicia Keys) and inspired by Manny’s own workflow.

Review ModeAudio

April 15, 2014, 03:53 PM

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

If you're in need of some quick inspiration to help you get bigger beats from Native Instruments' Massive, ModeAudio can help. Critical Mass has drums a-plenty and G. W. Childs finds them banging.

UAD v7.6 Software - New Chandler GAV19T, Brainworx

April 15, 2014, 03:53 PM

http://www.pro-tools-expert.com/home-page/2014/4/1...

Universal Audio say “Developed by the amp modeling gurus at Brainworx, the Chandler Limited GAV19T Amplifier plug-in is an exacting emulation of this ultra-responsive, dual EL84-powered boutique guitar amp. Inspired by British classics such as Vox and Marshall — and lesser-known gems from Watkins and Selmer — the Chandler Limited GAV19T Amplifier plug-in goes from supple clean textures, grinding blues tones, and rowdy distortions that gush with character.”

Running Your Own Creative Business: Part 2

April 15, 2014, 12:52 PM

http://www.pro-tools-expert.com/home-page/2014/4/1...

I remember sitting in a business class years ago and one of the attendees said ‘I need to write a business plan for the bank manager” without blinking the tutor retorted “you first person you need to write the business plan for is you.”

How It Works: Audio Compression

April 15, 2014, 12:52 PM

http://www.mcelhearn.com/how-it-works-audio-compre...

The term “compression” is often a source of confusion when discussing digital music. There are two kinds of compression. The first is the kind used to compress the size of files; this is data compression. There is lossy compression, using with MP3 and AAC files, and lossless compression, used with FLAC and Apple Lossless formats.

8 Tools for Mastering on a Budget

April 15, 2014, 12:51 PM

http://www.askaudiomag.com/articles/8-tools-for-ma...

Learning to master your own audio can be quite a rewarding experience. You get to learn how specific tools are used to raise the bar on your finished audio files so that they stand up against other commercial releases. But some of the mastering plug-ins do weigh in on the expensive side. Luckily there are some great freeware, to well-priced mastering plug-ins that are available. Let's take a look at what’s available so that you can get into the mastering process.

You should have almost no lip flap in any story…

April 14, 2014, 07:28 PM

http://blogs.nppa.org/editfoundry/2014/04/14/you-s...

I have a video editing pet peeve called lip flap. Lip flap is when you take a shot and the person or persons in the shot is talking while there is narration. Maybe they are talking to the reporter, or another person in the shot. What they’re really doing is distracting the viewer. Anytime I see a shot like this edited in a story I think it’s very distracting. I’m trying to listen to the narration and I’m trying to listen to what the person in the shot is saying. All that listening and I...

The power of the Thumbnails

April 14, 2014, 04:10 PM

http://monicabriano.com/2014/04/14/the-power-of-th...

Sometimes the best way to come up with an idea is to use a paper and pencil to draw it out. It allows you to use your imagination and see if something will work. The big movie studios doses this, indie films, and other creative fields.

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