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 is key to delivering compelling Mobile enter

February 25, 2014, 07:59 PM

http://blog.dolby.com/2014/02/mobile-world-congres...

As the small screens of phones and tablets increasingly become our theatres for movies, music, sports, and games, sound plays a vitally important role in ensuring that the content retains the emotional depth that makes it effective.

How to make your Oscars party sound great

February 25, 2014, 07:59 PM

http://blog.dolby.com/2014/02/make-oscars-party-so...

If you’re having an Oscars® party, chances are you’ve got your ballots, popcorn, and possibly a drinking game or two all planned out.

The Secrets of Film Sound - Video

February 25, 2014, 01:42 PM

http://www.nytimes.com/video/movies/10000000273229...

Melena Ryzik visits Skywalker Sound and learns how sound designers make movies come to life.

Sound Designer - Day 4 - Recording Breaths

February 25, 2014, 01:42 PM

http://carpetbagger.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/02/24/t...

Robert Redford was notably snubbed by the Academy for his performance in J.C. Chandor’s “All Is Lost.” Perhaps if he’d let his Oscar-nominated sound editor, Steve Boeddeker, handle his campaign, he would have walked off with a best actor nod.

Interview with award-winning Singaporean sound des

February 25, 2014, 01:42 PM

http://www.onscreenasia.com/article/ai-exclusive-i...

Singaporean sound designer, re-recording mixer and foley artist Ting Li LIM put Singapore on the map in the sound and music editing industry recently when she won the Verna Fields Award in Sound Editing at the MPSE Golden Reel Awards in Los Angeles held on February 16, 2014. She was nominated for her work in the student film Robomax. At the same awards, Wong Kar Wai's The Grandmaster also won Best Sound Editing: Sound Effects, Foley, Dialogue & ADR in a Foreign Feature Film.

Whoosh Review

February 25, 2014, 10:57 AM

http://designingsound.org/2014/02/whoosh-review/

In the last year, we’ve all been happy to see the slow emergence of software tools designed explicitly for sound design. The fine folks over at Tonsturm are the latest to release one such tool under the moniker Melted Sounds. Whoosh is a Reaktor based plug-in for designing, as implied by its name, complex and varied motion elements and pass-bys.

The Ranch Where ‘Star Wars’ Exploded

February 25, 2014, 10:57 AM

http://carpetbagger.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/02/25/v...

“Before there was a here here, I was here,” said Randy Thom, the director of sound design at Skywalker Sound, part of George Lucas’s Skywalker Ranch complex outside of San Francisco. “It used to be called Sprocket Systems, in the earliest days, and it became Skywalker Sound in the mid ’80s,” said Mr. Thom, who first worked with the company on “The Empire Strikes Back.”

The Sound of Curling

February 25, 2014, 10:55 AM

http://sportsvideo.org/main/blog/2014/02/the-sound...

As a sport, curling dates back to the early 16th century, and the pace and strategizing of “chess on ice,” as it has been dubbed, have remained relatively unchanged since then. But at the Sochi Olympics, one aspect of it got a lot speedier.

'Frozen' Composer Robert Lopez on the Perils Let I

February 25, 2014, 10:54 AM

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/frozen-compo...

"Comedy is different all over the world," says Robert Lopez, who shares an Oscar song nomination with wife Kristen Anderson-Lopez for "Let It Go" from Frozen. So he is grateful that the animated hit's 41 foreign-language versions are not his problem, but that of Disney Character Voices International senior vp creative Rick Dempsey, responsible for translating Disney's films. "We were floored when we heard the compilation of 'Let It Go' in all those different languages," says Lopez. "It sounded p...

Toronto-bred sound mixer up for Academy Award

February 25, 2014, 07:08 AM

http://www.cp24.com/entertainment-news/movie-tv-ne...

Toronto-raised sound engineer Andy Koyama's road to the Oscars began as a child in his mother's basement with a guitar, makeshift drums and dreams of shredding in stadiums.

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