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

Sound Design for Theater: Another Medium for Our C

October 11, 2016, 05:16 AM

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Guest post by James Richter In 2007, I was invited to join Mutineer Theatre Company in Los Angeles, a new enterprise one of my colleagues was founding. Though I hadn’t participated in theater since high school, I jumped at the chance. I wasn’t getting many opportunities to use my composition training in film, and I was […]

Review - Destructor By Blue Cat Audio

October 10, 2016, 06:10 AM

https://www.aotg.com/review-destructor-by-blue-cat-audio/

In this video review Pro Tools Expert team member Dan Cooper takes a look at the new distortion / amp simulator plug-in by Blue Cat Audio - The Destructor.

Sunday Sound Thought 41 – A Different Kind of Ch

October 9, 2016, 11:51 AM

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As the year continues, many of these posts will be philosophical in nature. Some will be in contradiction to previous postings. These are not intended as truths or assertions, they’re merely thoughts…ideas. Think of this as stream of consciousness over a wide span… As I wrap up this live action VR/360 short I’ve been working […]

How to Merge Multiple Audio Files

October 9, 2016, 11:51 AM

https://www.aotg.com/how-to-merge-multiple-audio-files/

It's a common task and so easy to complete inside Adobe Audition. When you use the Open Append option you'll create one long audio file with markers to indicate start and end times. You can then use the Diagnostics window to delete silences and you have a well edited long MP3 file from multiple audio files.

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October 9, 2016, 09:07 AM

http://designingsound.org/2016/10/youtube-spatial-...

Bruce Wiggins, lecturer for Electronics and Sound at the University of Derby, UK released a inverse filter IR which aims to equalize the coloring that happens due to the different HRTFs used by Youtube for content delivery. You can read the full article on Bruce Wiggin’s blog.