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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

C is for Composite

January 7, 2014, 02:10 PM

http://cinefex.com/blog/c-is-for-composite/

The humble composite is the backbone of all visual effects. If you doubt me, check out the Oxford English Dictionary, which defines a composite as “anything made up of different parts or elements”. If that doesn’t describe almost every visual effects shot ever created, I don’t know what does.

Get started with Premiere Pro

January 7, 2014, 02:08 PM

http://www.creativebloq.com/3d/get-started-premier...

For a long time, Adobe Premiere Pro was an also-ran in the non-linear editing market. But recent controversial changes to Final Cut Pro, plus the bundling of Adobe's tool with the Creative Cloud, means that nowadays Premiere is everywhere.

THE DESOLATION OF SMAUG: Eric Saindon

January 7, 2014, 10:56 AM

http://www.artofvfx.com/?p=5789

Last year, Eric Saindon had told us in detail about his work for THE HOBBIT – AN UNEXPECTED JOURNEY. Now, he’s back for the second episode of HOBBIT.

Soundtrack Synergy

January 7, 2014, 05:45 AM

http://animationguildblog.blogspot.ca/2014/01/soun...

Disney's Frozen soundtrack is aiming for No. 1 on the Billboard 200 chart...

8 Time Machine excuses that don't make sense

January 7, 2014, 05:45 AM

http://www.tuaw.com/2014/01/06/8-time-machine-excu...

These days, there are fewer and fewer good reasons to skip Time Machine. Do you recognize any of these excuses? Here are some answers for you to use the next time your boss or coworker starts justifying why he or she does not use the built-in OS X backup application.

Adding Handle to Sound Bites

January 6, 2014, 05:43 PM

http://provideocoalition.com/cmg_keyframes/story/a...

Whether you’re working on documentaries, reality television, corporate videos, or any of a number of situations where you have talent being interviewed on-camera, you’ve probably run into this scenario: The talent is giving a long speech, perhaps unrehearsed. In the middle of that speech is a really good sound bite you’d like to pull out and use in isolation. However, the talent didn’t pause enough frames before and/or after that sound bite to cleanly edit it into your program - and ...

VFX Cloud Houses: What Do You Think?

January 6, 2014, 05:42 PM

http://www.studiodaily.com/2014/01/vfx-cloud-house...

It seems everything in VFX these days is complicated and controversial. I know of several VFX houses that are, or will be, opening in the cloud. That means you work from home, wherever that may be, doing various levels of … more »

The Making of Wolf of Wall Street

January 6, 2014, 10:58 AM

http://www.behindvfx.com/post/72371332961/behind-v...

The Making of The Wolf of Wall Street Behind VFX ACCESS...

From Sound To Light - Dolby's Coming Change

January 6, 2014, 10:57 AM

http://www.fastcocreate.com/3024335/from-sound-to-...

Audio technology innovator Dolby Laboratories is expanding its brand to pictures. After 10 years of development, Dolby has produced a new imaging system that the company says delivers brighter, higher contrast, more realistic pictures.

Contender – VFX Supervisor Joe Letteri, The Hobb

January 6, 2014, 10:55 AM

http://www.btlnews.com/awards/contender-portfolios...

If doing a prequel film to a wildly popular trilogy from 10 years past seems as easy as dusting off old artwork, sets and rebooting computer files, think again. “The technology has changed pretty much completely from what we did on Lord of The Rings,” said visual effects supervisor for the new Hobbit trilogy, Joe Letteri. “What we got mostly came through in the first Hobbit film – bringing Gollum and Rivendell back – we based it on those designs.”

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