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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

Is Editing a Visual Art?

February 25, 2014, 10:57 AM

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A question not asked often outside of technical circles and within specific niches of Oscar campaigning: How well does a film’s editing style align with its overall visual aesthetic? Often when we refer to a film’s rhythms as “jazzy” or “stately” we do actually feel that this vibe is in somehow in synch with an overall design also evident in choices made about mise-en-scène, cinematography and production design, even if it’s difficult to articulate how the flow of cinematic space ...

ROBOCOP: Mert Kizilay – Lead Designer – yU+co

February 25, 2014, 10:57 AM

http://www.artofvfx.com/?p=6138

Mert Kizilay is a designer and director based in Los Angeles. He graduated from Fine Arts Animation School in Eski?ehir/Turkey. He has recently joined the teams of yU+co as designer.

Whoosh Review

February 25, 2014, 10:57 AM

http://designingsound.org/2014/02/whoosh-review/

In the last year, we’ve all been happy to see the slow emergence of software tools designed explicitly for sound design. The fine folks over at Tonsturm are the latest to release one such tool under the moniker Melted Sounds. Whoosh is a Reaktor based plug-in for designing, as implied by its name, complex and varied motion elements and pass-bys.

This week’s #PostChat: ‘Animation and the Post

February 25, 2014, 10:56 AM

http://postperspective.com/weeks-postchat-animatio...

This week, the #PostChat conversation is about “Animation and the Post Process,” with guest Judith Allen (@jaa_edit), a London-based freelance editor/assistant editor/visual effects editor who has been working in film and television since 2003. Allen (http://www.jaa-editing.com) worked as a VFX editor at Aardman Animations on the Oscar-nominated stop-motion feature The Pirates! In an Adventure With Scientists, […]The post This week’s #PostChat: ‘Animation and the Post Process’ a...

The Sound of Curling

February 25, 2014, 10:55 AM

http://sportsvideo.org/main/blog/2014/02/the-sound...

As a sport, curling dates back to the early 16th century, and the pace and strategizing of “chess on ice,” as it has been dubbed, have remained relatively unchanged since then. But at the Sochi Olympics, one aspect of it got a lot speedier.

'Frozen' Composer Robert Lopez on the Perils Let I

February 25, 2014, 10:54 AM

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/frozen-compo...

"Comedy is different all over the world," says Robert Lopez, who shares an Oscar song nomination with wife Kristen Anderson-Lopez for "Let It Go" from Frozen. So he is grateful that the animated hit's 41 foreign-language versions are not his problem, but that of Disney Character Voices International senior vp creative Rick Dempsey, responsible for translating Disney's films. "We were floored when we heard the compilation of 'Let It Go' in all those different languages," says Lopez. "It sounded p...

Toronto-bred sound mixer up for Academy Award

February 25, 2014, 07:08 AM

http://www.cp24.com/entertainment-news/movie-tv-ne...

Toronto-raised sound engineer Andy Koyama's road to the Oscars began as a child in his mother's basement with a guitar, makeshift drums and dreams of shredding in stadiums.

Join legendary film editor Walter Murch in His Lec

February 25, 2014, 07:08 AM

http://cinearchive.org/post/77620624767/join-legen...

Join legendary film editor Walter Murch in this fascinating masterclass covering his body of work, including his new feature documentary ‘Particle Fever,’ which had a screening at last year’s Sheffield Doc Fest.

Oscars Lowdown 2014: Best Film Editing

February 25, 2014, 07:08 AM

http://www.hitfix.com/in-contention/oscars-lowdown...

In the lead-up to the 86th annual Academy Awards on March 2, HitFix will be bringing you the lowdown on all 24 Oscar categories with multiple entries each day. Take a few notes and bone up on the competition as we give you the edge in your office Oscar pool!

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February 25, 2014, 05:51 AM

http://www.artofvfx.com/?p=6147

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