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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

Making of Audi Coup 90 Second Film

July 16, 2015, 04:51 AM

http://www.cgmeetup.net/home/making-of-audi-coup-9...

VFX breakdown of an Audi advert completed back in march 2015, at Unit Post Production.

Media Composer 101 - ADVANCED - What is Consolidat

July 15, 2015, 07:12 PM

http://www.provideocoalition.com/media-composer-10...

In this first of a two part lesson, Kevin P McAuliffe tackles probably the most confusing concept when it comes to editing in Media Composer.  What is Consolidating vs What is Transcoding.  In this lesson, we take a look at What Is Consolidating?

Review: Sennheiser PC-8 digital mic/headset with 4

July 15, 2015, 07:12 PM

http://www.provideocoalition.com/review-sennheiser...

This is a review of the Sennheiser PC–8 digital mic/headset with 48 kHz sampling. Ahead you will hear my test recordings, both flat and with Hindenburg’s one-click Voice Profiler equalization, against another microphone recorded simultaneously. You’ll also learn about how to set the Sennheiser PC–8’s built-in A-D (Analog-to-Digital converter) via software for 48 kHz, which is a feature that the manufacture apparently has not documented yet but indeed exists.

10 fun editing how-to’s from Sean Stender

July 15, 2015, 07:11 PM

http://postperspective.com/10-fun-editing-tos-sean...

Cut+Run’s Sean Stender has been a working editor for nine years, but that wasn’t the professional path he initially set out on.  After graduating college, his goal was to be a director of photography. “I always had a fascination with photography, but never took it seriously or really studied the craft until I was in college,” he explains. “I worked for Clarimont Camera as a sales assistant while a student, and I was able to leverage those contacts to get my foot in the door at ...

Pond 5 Video Library Surges

July 15, 2015, 07:11 PM

https://news.creativecow.net/story/879359

(New York, NY--July 15, 2015) Pond5, the world’s largest marketplace for royalty-free video footage, announced today that its network of over 40,000 artists has contributed more than four million high-quality video clips to the company’s library—a first for the industry.

The Lumière Brothers and their Fantastic Film Mac

July 15, 2015, 11:55 AM

http://joyoffilmediting.com/index.php/archives/552...

After Louis and Auguste Lumière introduced their Cinematograph to the world and turned its hand crank to run the world’s first film in December 1895, they had many offers to buy the dual camera-projection machine. But the brothers Lumière refused all offers. In 1896 they took their Cinématograph show on the road, opening theatres in […]

Coll Anderson on Documentary Sound Design

July 15, 2015, 11:55 AM

http://soundworkscollection.com/news/coll-anderson...

We're all familiar with creative sound design for narrative films—from the buzz of a lightsaber to the roar of a T. rex. But what about the sound in documentary films? Is there a role for abstract sound to play when your film depicts real events?

SoundWorks Collection - The Craft of Sound

July 15, 2015, 11:55 AM

http://soundworkscollection.com/news/the-craft-of-...

This video follows Alex Bishop through the six month process of building an exquisite gypsy jazz guitar from scratch. In that time, the UK based production team Contra shot upwards of 10 hours of footage, which editor Will Hammond cut down into a finely-tuned three-minute film. His process for doing so – strangely enough – mirrors the process of building a guitar. It's slow, methodical, and the beauty lies in the details.

Audio Levels and Metering: Part 2

July 15, 2015, 11:03 AM

http://www.aotg.com/index.php?page=audio_levels_me...

Probably the most frequent question I get from editors is about a target level for their audio mix. I hear numbers such as 0 dB, -6, -18, etc., which typically refer to dBFS (decibels relative to full scale) as reflected on the built-in Peak Program Meters (PPM) in their NLE.

Trainwreck Editor Loves Mistakes... It Feels Real

July 15, 2015, 09:45 AM

http://www.thecredits.org/2015/07/trainwreck-edito...

Some editors might look for the most perfectly delivered take to put in a movie. But not editor William Kerr, who took the lead editing Amy Schumer-led, Judd Apatow-directed comedy Trainwreck.

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