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

Autodesk Smoke 2013 Software

January 3, 2013, 09:27 AM

http://www.avnetwork.com/av-technology/0002/autode...

“Autodesk is committed to making high-end effects and 3D increasingly available to a new generation, and the new Smoke is case in point. The Smoke team has fielded thousands of inquiries and product recommendations in the process of developing Smoke 2013. I’m so excited to announce it’s here,” said Mark Strassman, Autodesk Media & Entertainment vice president strategy and marketing.

#autodesk#nle#post#smoke 2013
CineStyle Color Assist colour grading (review)

January 3, 2013, 09:25 AM

http://photo.it-enquirer.com/2013/01/technicolor-c...

Technicolor created a Log Curve CineStyle LUT for the Canon 5D MkIII, to ensure cinematic quality from this camera. The company’s latest venture in software driven solutions for the semi-pro cinematographer is CineStyle Color Assist and associated CineStyle Looks.

#color grading#cinestyle#color assist
Anatomy of a Scene: 'Django Unchained'

January 3, 2013, 09:23 AM

http://carpetbagger.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/12/21/a...

In the middle of “Django Unchained,” Quentin Tarantino’s energetic mashup of spaghetti westerns and blacksploitation movies, comes a quiet and important scene. It’s a moment involving Django’s wife, the slave Broomhilda, played by Kerry Washington. The scene finds Django (Jamie Foxx) and his partner, Dr. King Schultz (Christoph Waltz), on a mission to rescue Broomhilda from a plantation.

#django unchained#scene#analysis
Tax Incentives Renewed in Fiscal Cliff Deals

January 3, 2013, 09:22 AM

http://nofilmschool.com/2013/01/film-tv-tax-incent...

If you’re involved in the film or TV industry in any way, there’s a good chance you or someone you know has benefitted from Section 181 of the U.S. IRS Tax Code since it was established in 2004. Basically, it gives any investor the ability to deduct 100% of the money they invest in that same year for production costs up to $15 million dollars — and possibly as much as $20 million dollars. The good news is that as part of the last minute “Fiscal Cliff” deal, Section 181 has been renewed...

#tax#incentives#fiscal cliff
FxFactory 4.0 VFX plug-in available for CS6

January 2, 2013, 08:45 PM

http://broadcastengineering.com/hdtv/fxfactory-40-...

Visual effects tools developer Noise Industries has begun shipping FxFactory 4, the latest update to its visual effects plug-in platform with support for Adobe Premiere Pro CS6, in addition to Apple Final Cut Pro, Motion and Adobe After Effects.

#adobe#cs6#fxfactory
CS6 Quicktip: Matte Remover Presets

January 2, 2013, 08:44 PM

http://www.audiomicro.com/royalty-free-music-blog/...

One of the things about using motion graphic elements is their ability to drastically change the appearance of your footage. For example, I can have a clip of a woman break dancing in a studio, which is a good piece of stock footage. If I were to drop a motion graphic clip of blinking lens flares or perhaps an abstract grunge clip vignette, it would definitely spice things up a bit.

#adobe#cs6#premiere pro#nle
The Top Ten Final Cut Pro X books of 2012

January 2, 2013, 01:24 PM

http://www.fcp.co/final-cut-pro/news/1008-the-top-...

It has been a very busy year in the life of Final Cut Pro X in 2012. Lots of updates, lots of new plugins and of course training courses and books. We thought we would take a look at the best selling FCPX books of 2012.

Contenders - Editors of Les Miserables

January 2, 2013, 01:24 PM

http://www.btlnews.com/awards/contenders-editors-c...

For the new movie version of the hit theatrical show Les Misérables, the filmmakers engaged in a rigorous 70-day shoot with musical sequences realized live on set. Aboard from the beginning was editor Chris Dickens who faced the technical challenges of cutting a production without the traditional method of editing a musical by syncing the music in post to lip-synced on-set shots performed to playback. 

Will Post Houses and DITs Be Extinct by 2017?

January 2, 2013, 01:18 PM

http://nofilmschool.com/2013/01/dit-post-house-ext...

The media management and quality control handled by the digital imaging technician and post house is nearly universally vital in modern filmmaking, where each digital camera brings its own varying formats, workflows, and quirks. This need for DITs and post houses, however, may evaporate just as quickly as it has arisen — at least according to the predictions of Michael Cioni.

#film#post#dit

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