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

Editing with restraint

February 11, 2014, 11:24 AM

http://variety.com/2014/film/awards/editing-americ...

“Dallas Buyers Club” and “American Hustle” feature distinct stories, but share approaches to the use of both drama and comedy to tell them. The trick, their editors say, is rooting them in reality, while exercising restraint.

VIDEO ESSAY: Mise En Scène and the Visual Themes

February 11, 2014, 11:23 AM

https://www.aotg.com/video-essay-mise-en-scene-and-the-visual-themes/

Under the fair use doctrine, it is not an infringement to use the copyrighted works of another in some circumstances, such as for commentary, criticism, news reporting, or educational use.

Mindblowing VFX stretches the limits of imaginatio

February 11, 2014, 11:23 AM

http://www.creativebloq.com/3d-world/mindblowing-v...

MJZ's Dante Ariola, BBDO, New York and Method Studios recently unleashed their inner child in this new spot for General Electric (GE). 'Childlike Imagination' depicts a little girl envisioning all the amazing things her mom makes as a GE employee.

Editor Jay Cassidy on American Hustle

February 11, 2014, 11:23 AM

http://www.studiodaily.com/2014/02/editor-jay-cass...

Jay Cassidy, A.C.E., just won an ACE Eddie Award for Best Edited Feature Film (Comedy or Musical) with co-editors Crispin Struthers and Alan Baumgarten, A.C.E., for his work on American Hustle. This Eddie is Cassidy’s second in two years, following … more »

On the Sound mixing Oscar nominees

February 11, 2014, 11:22 AM

http://variety.com/2014/film/awards/sound-mixing-w...

Production sound mixers on the sets of this year’s action films found themselves everywhere from rough seas to the highest elevations in New Mexico with one goal at hand — get the kind of sound that makes it all believable and the kind of dialogue that’s easy to understand.

Sound Editing: Never Thrown for a Loop

February 11, 2014, 11:22 AM

http://variety.com/2014/film/awards/the-hobbit-the...

When it comes to sound effects and dubbing, stories about dragons and desolate men at sea have the same problem: How to place audiences right there with the character.

VFX All for One and One for All

February 11, 2014, 11:22 AM

http://variety.com/2014/film/awards/visual-effects...

Yet they represent radically different ideas about how to get a big vfx picture done. Some are throwbacks to the era when a single star vfx company would handle the load, while others follow the current trend and are ensemble efforts, combining shots from many companies.

Jeffrey Katzenberg To Deliver Keynote Address

February 11, 2014, 11:22 AM

http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/dreamworks...

NEW YORK, Feb. 11, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- Entertainment and media visionary Jeffrey Katzenberg, chief executive officer of DreamWorks Animation, will deliver the Opening Keynote address at Licensing Expo 2014. The Opening Keynote session of the Expo, sponsored by the International Licensing Industry Merchandisers' Association (LIMA) and staged by Advanstar, will take place Tuesday, June 17, from 8-9 a.m. at the Mandalay Bay Convention Center in Las Vegas, and is free for all Expo attendees and exh...

VES Awards predictions: 'Gravity,' 'Rush,' 'Frozen

February 11, 2014, 11:22 AM

http://www.goldderby.com/news/5645/visual-effects-...

No surprise that Oscar frontrunner "Gravity" enjoys a commanding lead in our predictions as to what film will take the top prize at Wednesday's Visual Effects Society Awards. The blockbuster has odds of 1/10 to win the VES equivalent of the Best Picture race -- visual effects in a visual effects-driven feature motion picture.

Welcome to After Effects: Rendering

February 11, 2014, 11:22 AM

http://cgi.tutsplus.com/tutorials/welcome-to-after...

This 10-part series has been designed to help anyone starting out in the world of After Effects. In this episode, we'll take a look the rendering features and how to add your project to the "Render Queue". We will explore the Render Queue settings and learn how to change them. Finally, we'll cover video codecs, why they exist and then take a look at some of the more common output versions. Enjoy...

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