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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

Post Production in Lisbon

September 5, 2014, 04:36 AM

http://vanhurkman.com/wordpress/?p=3058

I was fortunate enough to be hired to consult with Jennifer Mendes, the colorist at Lisbon post production facility Loudness Films. Comprised of four principals (Branko Neskov doing sound, Pedro Ribeiro doing editing, Jennifer Mendes doing color, and Nuno Oliveira taking care of the business side of things) this two-story facility has fantastic mixing, recording, and grading rooms designed by Joules Newell (Newell Acoustic Engineering) whom I also happened to meet as he was working on the additi...

Learning to Let It Go – The Story behind Frozen

September 5, 2014, 04:35 AM

http://filmmakeriq.com/2014/09/learning-to-let-it-...

Composers Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Robert Lopez discuss the process of coming up with Frozen’s signature song: “Let it Go”

Legally Speaking, It Depends - Guild or Union PT2

September 5, 2014, 04:34 AM

http://www.scriptmag.com/features/legally-speaking...

Continuing on from part one, we’ll look more closely into the legal and business issues that arise from representation by either a Union or a Guild. Most of the following applies pretty much equally whether the representation is Union or Guild (hence the nomenclature adopted below, Union/Guild.) Hopefully you remember the distinction from the last time. Will there be a test? It depends…

Outpost Studios on affordable Foley for indies

September 4, 2014, 05:19 PM

http://postperspective.com/outpost-studios-afforda...

By Jennifer Walden Foreign distribution companies insist on a fully formed M&E mix, complete with Foley, but for low-budget films there often isn’t room for it. It’s a catch-22. Not footing the bill for Foley work can keep indie filmmakers from making money in the global market. Dave Nelson, owner/supervising sound editor/re-recording mixer at Outpost […]The post Outpost Studios on affordable Foley for indies appeared first on postPerspective - Randi Altman's postPerspective.

Quick Tip: Focus Pulling

September 4, 2014, 12:36 PM

http://www.premiumbeat.com/blog/quick-tip-focus-pu...

Camera assistants and focus pullers can benefit from the simple tips in this quick video.

Editing magic: History’s ‘Houdini’

September 4, 2014, 12:36 PM

http://postperspective.com/editing-magic-historys-...

By Randi Altman When asked about magicians or illusionists who push the boundary, most young people would immediately think of David Blaine or Criss Angel. But before either of them drank fire or locked themselves in a water-filled box in front of a crowd, there was Harry Houdini. An inspiration to this current spate of […]The post Editing magic: History’s ‘Houdini’ appeared first on postPerspective - Randi Altman's postPerspective.

VIEW Conference 2014

September 4, 2014, 09:42 AM

http://www.artofvfx.com/?p=9211

VIEW Conference have just announced the first speakers and guest for their 2014 edition and that will be big! They have got big names of the VFX industry such as Scott Farrar, Stefen Fangmeier, Rob Coleman and many more.

Why THAT Color? Why Not? Interview with Aleksandar

September 4, 2014, 09:42 AM

http://www.tomparish.com/2014/09/color-interview-a...

I’m beginning to understand more deeply that COLOR is more than a well-defined, well-behaved set of terms we all share regarding the physical ordering of colors and our assignment of the use of colors in society and culture.

Has the Business of Creativity Made Us Less Creati

September 4, 2014, 04:36 AM

http://bigthink.com/ideafeed/has-the-business-of-c...

Creativity, like many cultural values, has changed through the ages. In the ancient world, creativity belonged to the divine realm: when a human exhibited creative genius, he or she was seen as favored by the Gods. During the Enlightenment, when scientific methods of inquiry were developed, the soft subjectivity of imagination was considered inferior. Not until the Romantic era of the late 18th century did creativity become a prize. Today, it is more of a paycheck.

Project Management — VFX Craft — Medium

September 4, 2014, 04:35 AM

https://medium.com/vfx-craft/project-management-cc...

For those of you who are more boutique based, either freelance or starting up a studio, you may be looking for a way to effectively manage your project files and folders on a computer - their names, where they are stored and why.

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