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

Skip Lievsay to Receive MPSE Career Achievement Aw

December 19, 2014, 06:10 AM

http://www.btlnews.com/awards/skip-lievsay-to-rece...

The Motion Picture Sound Editors (MPSE) announced that it will honor Academy Award-winning supervising sound editor and re-recording mixer Skip Lievsay with its 2015 Career Achievement Award. Lievsay, who won the 2014 Academy Award for best sound mixing for his work on Gravity (with Niv Adiri, Christopher Benstead and Chris Munro), has contributed to nearly 150 films over the course of a career spanning more than 30 years. He has been a frequent collaborator of directors Joel and Ethan Coen,...

Contenders – Sound Editors/Mixers Tom Hammond, 

December 19, 2014, 06:10 AM

http://www.btlnews.com/awards/contenders-sound-edi...

The coming-of-age saga, Boyhood, was shot for several days every year for 12 years. Tom Hammond, the sound supervisor and re-recording mixer, has worked many times with the director, Richard Linklater. Although Hammond was on the film from the start of production through the final mix, and key crew generally returned on an annual basis to do their part, sometimes schedules did not sync and new crew joined the team. This was the case with the production sound mixers on the film. Ethan Andrus ...

Creating the Dark and Powerful Sound of Godzilla

December 19, 2014, 06:09 AM

http://nofilmschool.com/2014/12/behind-scenes-look...

Recreating and revamping Godzilla's infamous roar was no small task for sound designer Erik Aadahl and sound editor Ethan Van der Ryn, and surely wasn't an undertaking they took lightly. This is a sentiment they expressed to SoundWorks Design when they shared how they approached designing the creature's thunderous shriek, however the details they divulged were scant at best.

Trent Reznor on Getting into David Fincher's Head

December 19, 2014, 06:08 AM

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/race/oscars-gone-...

"Is it good? I’m not sure, but I know I worked my ass off," Trent Reznor, the Nine Inch Nails frontman/Oscar-winning film composer told me of his latest score — the one that he and Atticus Ross put together for David Fincher's smash-hit Gone Girl — when we sat down for an hour-long conversation a few weeks ago in Beverly Hills.

MPSE to honor Skip Lievsay for career achievement

December 18, 2014, 05:24 PM

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

STUDIO CITY, CA — On February 15, 2015, The Motion Picture Sound Editors (MPSE) will honor supervising sound editor/re-recording mixer Skip Lievsay with its 2015 MPSE Career Achievement Award. Lievsay won the 2014 Academy Award for Best Sound Mixing for his work on Gravity (with Niv Adiri, Christopher Benstead and Chris Munro) and has contributed to nearly 150 films over the course of a career that spans more than 30 years. He has been a frequent collaborator of directors Joel and Ethan Co...

Updated Audio Tools for Video Editors: iZotrope

December 18, 2014, 01:21 PM

http://www.creativeplanetnetwork.com/news/produce/...

Most video editors can get by with the audio editing tools that are built into their NLE systems, but if you want that extra audio finesse, you’ll need some dedicated audio applications and plug-ins. 2014 is closing out nicely with new offerings from Sony Creative Software and iZotope.

Composer Clint Bajakian - World of Warcraft: Warlo

December 18, 2014, 06:13 AM

http://soundworkscollection.com/news/soundworks-co...

This week we spoke with Composer Clint Bajakian who worked on Blizzard studios video game World of Warcraft: Warlords of Draenor which sold over 3.3 million copies within the first 24 hours of being released.

Source Elements Release Source Connect 381

December 18, 2014, 06:08 AM

http://www.pro-tools-expert.com/home-page/2014/12/...

The team at Source Elements decided to demonstrate a live vocal overdub with a vocalist in Chicago being recorded on the AES trade show floor in Los Angeles, using cellphone data paths and a clever aggregating device. Check out the video.

Testing Round Trip Latency On The Apogee Ensemble

December 18, 2014, 06:08 AM

https://www.aotg.com/testing-round-trip-latency-on-the-apogee-ensemble-2/

Russ test the new Apogee Ensemble Thunderbolt for round trip latency, sending audio out of the interface and then recording it back into Pro Tools to see how...

Ideal Bass Absorber Panel Placement

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https://www.aotg.com/ideal-bass-absorber-panel-placement/

Want to know where you should place bass absorbers in your room and why so many people get this wrong? Well today we’re going to talk about ideal bass absorber panel placement. Low frequency energy issues are pressure related so you need a pressure reactive device, something that absorbs pressure or deals with pressure to create absorption.

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