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

Poetics in motion, and sound

December 15, 2013, 02:28 PM

http://www.davidbordwell.net/blog/2013/12/15/poeti...

What is the sound of two hands flapping? (33:25). DB here: Ari Ernesto Purnama is a Ph.D. student in film studies at the University of Groningen. He has been attending the Belgian summer film schools I mentioned in the previous entry, and back in July he asked to interview me. He has kindly edited and [...]

Is High Frame Rate Getting Any Better?

December 15, 2013, 02:28 PM

http://www.tgdaily.com/games-and-entertainment-fea...

When the first installment of The Hobbit debuted last year, Peter Jackson used a new technology, 48 frames per second, which many hailed as a great new innovation. But the technology didn’t fly with the public, who complained of headaches after watching The Hobbit in that format.

The Making of The Hobbit

December 15, 2013, 08:00 AM

https://www.aotg.com/the-making-of-the-hobbit/

Behind VFX ACCESS - The Making of The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug Behind VFX ACCESS – The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug (01:31:00) Behind VFX ACCESS is a video curation service for movie fans a...

Was it CG? Or Live Action

December 15, 2013, 07:59 AM

http://animationguildblog.blogspot.ca/2013/12/was-...

... This year several of the finalists for the visual-effects Oscar nomination are pushing the boundaries of f/x lighting, blurring the lines between “practical” and “digital” effects, and along the way, using that lighting to integrate actors with vfx in ways that could only have been dreamed of before.

EVENT REPORT: Videocraft MCv7 Session

December 15, 2013, 07:59 AM

http://www.screeneditors.com.au/event-report/

DATELINE: October 31st 2013 THE MAIN EVENT: Videocraft Media Composer Training Session VENUE: Videocraft Sydney, NSW Videocraft hosted a training evening to demonstrate some of the new and more interesting features of Avid Media Composer v7 to ASE members. Our demonstrators were Drew and James. At Videocraft Drew is the Avid Media Composer person and James is [...]

Yet more awesomeness comes to Adobe CC video apps

December 15, 2013, 07:59 AM

http://blogs.adobe.com/jnack/2013/12/yet-more-awes...

Creative Cloud means continuous innovation. Check out the newest batch: Adobe Premiere Pro CC has seen four new releases in this year – all within the 6 months since the CC version was announced. Guided by user requests, the Adobe Premiere Pro CC December 2013 release adds Open CL performance enhancements, media management improvements like multiple Media Browser tabs, new editing enhancements for even greater workflow efficiency, and delivers more intuitive voiceover recording. The After...

FrameFlex vs. Resize

December 14, 2013, 02:35 PM

http://24p.com/wordpress/?p=128

Avid FrameFlex is a new feature in Media Composer v7 that allows for image re-framing. The FrameFlex parameters go back to the original high resolution master using more pixels to create the new frame rather than resizing an HD frame to the new size.

Planar Tracking in AE

December 14, 2013, 02:35 PM

http://lesterbanks.com/2013/12/mocha-planar-tracki...

Showing the benefit in the relationship between planar tracking / roto work in mocha, mocha Pro and After Effects, Imagineer Systems’ energetic Mary Poplin demonstrates creating motion graphics with a suite of tools, creating a dynamic animation with tracked graphics.

Turmoil?

December 14, 2013, 09:26 AM

http://animationguildblog.blogspot.ca/2013/12/turm...

... All may not be ... rosy in toonland. Next year, for the first time in almost a decade, there will be no new Pixar film: The company announced it’s pushing The Good Dinosaur, originally slated for May 2014, all the way back to November 2015.

FumeFX Where the hell is the Emitter Button

December 14, 2013, 09:26 AM

http://lesterbanks.com/2013/12/maya-fumefx-where-t...

It was back in near the end May of 2013 when we first heard word that the popular 3ds Max fluid dynamics simulator, FumeFX was being developed for Maya, and as a precursor to its looming release next week, Allan McKay provides a quick-start to getting oriented in using FumeFX for Maya.

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