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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

Composer Rob Simonsen Says Less is More

November 14, 2014, 05:05 PM

http://variety.com/2014/artisans/production/foxcat...

Judging from his sensitive, sophisticated scores for off-kilter romances and comedies like “The Spectacular Now” and “(500) Days of Summer,” Rob Simonsen might not have seemed the most intuitive choice to score “Foxcatcher,” Bennett Miller’s eerily placid study of violent obsession.

Bankrupt Soundelux Sound Effects Library Sold To S

November 14, 2014, 05:03 PM

http://deadline.com/2014/11/soundelux-sound-effect...

EXCLUSIVE: The last big piece of the Todd-Soundelux bankruptcy has fallen into place with the sale of the company’s massive sound effects library, which has been purchased at auction by Sounddogs.com for $600,000. The library contains millions of sound effects from thousands of films the company worked on over the past 30 years, including films that won more than 20 Oscars for best sound effects. Soundelux, which for many years was one of Hollywood’s leading postproduction facilities, declar...

Dreamworks-Hasbro Merger... Potential movies

November 14, 2014, 05:01 PM

http://www.slashfilm.com/dreamworks-hasbro-merger/

Yesterday news broke that DreamWorks Animation had entered merger talks with toy-maker Hasbro. If the merger happens, DreamWorks Animation CEO Jeffery Katzenberg would head the new single-family entertainment company known as DreamWorks-Hasbro. I’m surprised something like this hasn’t happened sooner as the combination seems oh-so-obvious.

Sounddogs Buys Todd-Soundelux Sound Effects Librar

November 14, 2014, 05:00 PM

http://www.studiodaily.com/2014/11/sounddogs-buys-...

Sounddogs.com in Los Angeles, CA, has acquired the library assets and marks of the defunct Todd-Soundelux in bankruptcy court, according to Rob Nokes, president and founder of Sounddogs. The transaction includes the Soundelux sound-effects library as well as The Hollywood … more »

Post Celebrates 29th Birthday in NYC

November 14, 2014, 04:58 PM

http://www.postmagazine.com/Press-Center/Daily-New...

NEW YORK — Post celebrated its 29th Birthday with a party on November 12th in New York City. The event was attended by more than 200 professionals from throughout the production and post production industry. We'd like to thank our sponsors for their support in making the event such a success: AlterMedia, Audio Network, Blackmagic Design Harbor Picture Company, JMR and Sim Digital.

Forces are Pulling Dreamworks in Diverse direction

November 14, 2014, 05:09 AM

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/14/business/media/m...

LOS ANGELES — Walt Disney is a big studio built around smaller units: Marvel Entertainment, Pixar and the classic Disney animation shop, among others.

Congratulations to Our Customers Honored at HPA Aw

November 13, 2014, 07:52 PM

http://www.avidblogs.com/hpa-awards-2014-excellenc...

The article Congratulations to Our Customers Honored at HPA Awards 2014 for Excellence in Post Production by Timory Burleson appeared first on Avid Blogs - The media industry is changing fast. Get the insight you need to succeed—read Avid Blogs..

The Foundry buys Mischief creator Made With Mischi

November 13, 2014, 07:51 PM

http://www.cgchannel.com/2014/11/the-foundry-buys-...

The Foundry has acquired Made With Michief, formerly known as 61 Solutions, creators of the cult pen-based sketching package Mischief.

DreamWorks Sale to Hasbro Hinges on Control, Price

November 13, 2014, 07:51 PM

http://variety.com/2014/biz/news/dreamworks-animat...

Both Hasbro chief Brian Goldner and DWA founder Jeffery Katzenberg are tough negotiators, and willful individuals who are used to running their own shows. So one of the open questions about a potential merger of their companies is whether the two CEOs can come to terms on operational control of the new entity. It’s impossible to imagine Katzenberg reporting to Goldner (or vice versa), even though Hasbro would be acquiring DWA.

Sound Devices showcases rack-mounted video and aud

November 13, 2014, 01:21 PM

http://www.postmagazine.com/Press-Center/Daily-New...

NEW YORK — Sound Devices ( www.sounddevices.com ), along with its new video-products brand Video Devices (www.videodevices.com), showcased its full complement of rack-mounted production decks at CCW 2014. The company’s Paul Isaacs (pictured), VP of marketing and product design, offered attendees a look at the Video Devices PIX 270i and PIX 250ivideo recorders and Sound Devices 970 audio recorder. 

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