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

Workflow of Storage

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http://www.tvtechnology.com/article/the-workflow-o...

To meet an ever-expanding data storage agenda, the industry continues to create higher capacity hard drives to support larger pools of storage. Beyond those tangible solutions, familiar companies from Microsoft to Cisco to Amazon sell storage space for users to put their information into cloud-based repositories of an unknown scale. Entire industry sectors, not just broadcast, media and entertainment, encourage drive manufacturers to throw fuel on this uncontrollable fire.

WD Black2 drive packs punch

November 25, 2013, 05:12 PM

http://www.engadget.com/2013/11/25/wd-black2/?utm_...

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The Editor as Therapist

November 25, 2013, 01:16 PM

https://www.editorsguild.com/magazine.cfm?ArticleI...

When audiences walk out of August: Osage County, they may conclude that its farrago of unhappy characters would do well to see a psychologist. After all, the occasion of the Weston daughters — Barbara (Julia Roberts), Ivy (Julianne Nicholson) and Karen (Juliette Lewis) — returning home is the death of their father Beverly (Sam Shepard), who is survived by wife Violet (Meryl Streep), who is also in bad shape. The film, adapted by Tracy Letts from his Pulitzer Prize-winning play, is directed b...

Oscar Campaigning 101

November 25, 2013, 10:55 AM

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/race/oscar-campai...

In a perfect world, a movie would speak for itself. Oscar voters would screen a film, leave the theater, go home and eventually cast their votes. But that's not the way award seasons work these days, especially this year, when there is no clear frontrunner. In order to make sure their movies get sampled, and to ensure they leave behind a good impression...

SPARTACUS - WAR OF THE DAMNED Breakdown

November 25, 2013, 10:55 AM

http://www.artofvfx.com/?p=5462

Here is the VFX Breakdown by Cause+FX of their work on SPARTACUS – WAR OF THE DAMNED:

Creating large-scale smoke

November 25, 2013, 10:55 AM

http://www.3dtotal.com/index_tutorial_detailed.php...

Vikrant Dalal takes us through the key processes in creating a convincing plume of large-scale smoke.

How Disney Animation simulates snow

November 25, 2013, 10:54 AM

http://blogs.adobe.com/jnack/2013/11/how-disney-an...

I really hope they have 40 subtly different words for this: [YouTube] Only theoretically related: “There really are 50 Eskimo words for ‘snow’”

The Dark Side - Behind the VFX of Thor

November 25, 2013, 05:32 AM

http://www.fxguide.com/featured/the-dark-side-behi...

With Thor: The Dark World, Marvel continues to cement its incredible reputation in bringing the studio’s Cinematic Universe to life, as well as continuing to broadening the worlds and characters that we see with inventive visual effects.

Catching Fire - Meet the Real Gamemaker

November 25, 2013, 05:31 AM

http://www.fxguide.com/featured/catching-fire-meet...

We break down the key visual effects shots in Francis Lawrence’s The Hunger Games: Catching Fire with VFX supe Janek Sirrs, whose credits include The Matrix Reloaded, Iron Man 2 and The Avengers. We delve into the effects for the Victory Tour to the detailed views of the Capitol, to the brand new arena and the hazards the Tributes face in the game.

VFX Supervisor Phil Brennan Returns to Wolverine

November 25, 2013, 05:31 AM

http://www.3dvf.com/actualite-8191--superviseur-vf...

Effects-Spéciaux.info has posted an interview with Phil Brennan, VFX Supervisor of Wolverine fighting the immortal : Part 1 - Part 2 .

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