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

Updated free tech. preview of Project Simulus

August 15, 2012, 03:06 PM

http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ItsAliveInTheLab/~3...

Project Simulus is a free technology preview that showcases a number of innovative approaches to mechanical simulation using geometry modification capabilities through embedding Inventor Fusion along with a very intuitive simplification environment to prepare various CAD models for different simulation...

Product Review: Magic Bullet Denoiser II

August 15, 2012, 03:06 PM

http://www.videoguys.com/Blog/E/Product+Review+Mag...

Today's DSLRs and HD Camcorders allow us to shoot at higher ISO and lower light scenarios than ever before - but with the smaller sensor sizes typical in prosumer cameras, this capability also introduces a great deal of noise. Thankfully, Red Giant has updated Magic Bullet Denoiser II (v 1.3) - available as a stand-alone plugin or part of the Magic Bullet Suite to help eliminate the noise while retaining the details.

Recently in After Effects

August 15, 2012, 03:05 PM

http://provideocoalition.com/index.php/ryoung/stor...

Victoria Nece has 2 tutorials on Kinect MoCap Animation in After Effects, Part 1: Getting Started and Part 2: Motion Capture with KinectToPin, on using the free Processing app KinectToPin to capture Kinect skeletal tracking data for use with the After Effects puppet tool. Check out also A 3-D Animated Human Created Without An Animator, Using Just Kinect And A Camera from Fast Company. Here’s Victoria's intro and steps beyond via FastCoDesign...

Correcting a Color Cast using a Digital Grey Kard

August 15, 2012, 03:03 PM

http://filmmakeriq.com/2012/08/color-correcting-a-...

Olivia Speranza demonstrates how to use Grey Cards and Final Cut Pro X to correct for color cast in video.

Resolve 9 Used by Juan Salvo

August 15, 2012, 03:02 PM

http://broadcastengineering.com/resolve-9-used-jua...

Manchester, UK - 15 August 2012 – Blackmagic Design today announced DaVinci Resolve 9 was used by New York City based colorist and online editor Juan Salvo for finishing and color correcting the wildly popular Cookie Monster music video spoof of the Carly Rae Jepsen song "Call Me Maybe."