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

My Year of Cutting Dangerously

February 25, 2015, 05:47 AM

http://jamiecobb.com/my-year-of-cutting-dangerousl...

No Fourth of July barbecue for this girl, I was too busy cutting a funeral scene that day. While you were setting your clocks back this fall, I was spending some quality time in German occupied France. As you were dodging buttered popcorn flavored jelly beans and spending time with loved ones, I was hanging […]

VFX Secrets Behind 'Birdman' Finally Revealed

February 25, 2015, 05:45 AM

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/behind-screen/vfx...

Birdman, Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu's best picture Oscar winner, has been widely praised for looking as if the entire 119-minute movie was shot in one uninterrupted take — an inventive feat that earned it four Oscars, including best direction and cinematography for its director of photography Emmanuel Lubezki.

JUPITER ASCENDING: VFX Breakdown by Method Studios

February 25, 2015, 05:45 AM

https://www.aotg.com/jupiter-ascending-vfx-breakdown-by-method-studios-2/

Don't miss my interview of Simon Carr, VFX Supervisor at Method Studios on JUPITER ASCENDING...

DreamWorks Reports 4th Quarter, 2014 Losses

February 24, 2015, 07:58 PM

http://www.animationmagazine.net/features/dreamwor...

DreamWorks Animation reported a significant loss in the fourth quarter of 2014 related to its restructuring and to the lackluster box office performance of its features Penguins of Madagascar and Mr. Peabody and Sherman.

Grading CinemaDNG Raw? Resolve 11.2.1

February 24, 2015, 01:53 PM

http://vanhurkman.com/wordpress/?p=3208

If you’re a DaVinci Resolve user who’s about to grade a project shot with any of the Blackmagic Design cameras and recorded using CinemaDNG raw, you should seriously consider upgrading to Resolve 11.2.1 if you haven’t already started your project (if you’ve already started, then don’t upgrade yet, as a matter of principle).

In The Style Of Jump Editing

February 24, 2015, 01:52 PM

http://blogs.nppa.org/editfoundry/2015/02/24/in-th...

This is a style that you could use no matter what type of storyteller you are. I call this jump editing. Jump cuts are intentional. There are some rules to jump editing (or guidelines). Are you ever given a story that just screams jump cuts?

4K Workflow with Avid Media Composer

February 24, 2015, 01:51 PM

http://www.geniusdv.com/news_and_tutorials/2015/02...

Check out this short tutorial for ingesting 4K Media within Avid Media Composer. This tutorial is for the novice who is working with 4K media the first time. It purposely avoids the many advanced and customized workflows associated with 4K Media.

The Problem with Animation and the Academy

February 24, 2015, 01:50 PM

http://www.rotoscopers.com/2015/02/24/the-problem-...

It became clear that animation is an overlooked medium within The Academy when Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson presented the award for “Best Animated Feature” Sunday night. Incorrectly labelling animation as a genre, Johnson began to introduce the lineup of animated nominees. The point is, animation is a medium, not a genre. Animation is just a means by which a genre can come alive. When your presenter can’t correctly speak about a category in the most influential film awards show, you know ...

Inspiring ILM

February 24, 2015, 10:41 AM

http://cinefex.com/blog/inspiring-ilm/

What drives people to work in the visual effects industry? The glamour? The technology? All those ravening monsters and exploding spaceships? Or is it just another job? In an ongoing series of articles, we ask a wide range of VFX professionals the simple question: “Who or what inspired you to get into visual effects?”

BIRDMAN Featurette:

February 24, 2015, 10:41 AM

https://www.aotg.com/birdman-featurette/

A look at the Single Take of Birdman

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