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

NFB, Montreal to Celebrate McLaren's 100th

January 28, 2014, 08:11 PM

http://www.animationmagazine.net/events/nfb-montre...

Canada’s National Film Board and the Quartier des Spectacles partnership have announced a celebration of the 100th anniversary of the birth of renowned animator Norman McLaren.

The VFX Predictinator, 86th Academy Awards Edition

January 28, 2014, 08:11 PM

http://fxrant.blogspot.com.au/2014/01/the-vfx-pred...

Now that the Academy Award nominations have been announced, it’s time to fire up The VFX Predictinator. This year’s predicted winner may not surprise you. But first, here's some background for those of you just joining us.

9 Maya Camera Tips

January 28, 2014, 08:10 PM

http://lesterbanks.com/2014/01/9-maya-camera-tips-...

Back posting his Maya Monday’s tips and tricks, Daryl Obert takes a look at some of the things he likes to do when working with Maya cameras. There are some really great tips in here if you are a beginner, and still some great tips if you are an intermediate Maya user. Daryl covers some of the things that he didn’t have time to in his Autodesk CAVE 2013 presentation and goes into great detail with some of the things you can do with the Maya camera.

AJA Ships Io 4K; Professional Video I/O for New Ma

January 28, 2014, 08:10 PM

http://www.creativeplanetnetwork.com/the_wire/2014...

Grass Valley, CA – AJA Video Systems today announced availability of Io 4K, an evolution of its popular devices for professional video I/O, updated and customized for Thunderbolt™ 2 technology and the latest 4K workflows. Io 4K connects to any Thunderbolt™ 2-enabled device such as the new Mac Pro, and uniquely offers an additional Thunderbolt™ 2 port for daisy-chaining other peripherals in supported workflows.

FCP X Just Got It’s Big Break a Studio Feature

January 28, 2014, 01:46 PM

http://noamkroll.com/fcp-x-just-got-its-big-break-...

The largely controversial Final Cut Pro X may have just got the break that it needed so badly when news emerged a few days ago revealing FCP X is being used to edit a $100M upcoming studio feature. Although over the past year the controversy surrounding FCP X has largely died down as the software has improved immensely, most editors still haven’t given it a fair shot and have either stuck with FCP 7, moved to Premiere Pro, or in some rare cases have gone back to Avid. As it currently stands, t...

The CG Elephant in the Old School Room

January 28, 2014, 01:46 PM

http://cinefex.com/blog/the-cg-elephant-in-the-old...

We’ve been hanging out together for a while now. I’ve said some things. You’ve answered back. We’ve drunk coffee, occasionally downed a few glasses of beer. I think we can call ourselves friends. But, if this relationship’s going to move forward, there’s a question we’ve got to get past.

Matt Villa ASE, Jason Ballantine ASE & Jonathan Re

January 28, 2014, 01:46 PM

http://www.screeneditors.com.au/matt-villa-ase-jas...

QUESTION 1: What pressure was there to be faithful to the classic American novel? Baz was acutely aware of the scrutiny that would be given to a “Baz Luhrmann” adaptation of “The Great Gatsby”.  Faithfully bringing the book to the screen was paramount to Baz and we were given every tool to help us do [...]

AlphaDogs posts ‘Bigfoot’ reality series

January 28, 2014, 01:46 PM

http://postperspective.com/2014/01/alphadogs-posts...

Burbank — In the new one-hour reality competition series Ten Million Dollar Bigfoot Bounty, nine teams of lifelong Bigfoot bounty hunters — or “sqautchers” as they like to be called — use their skills, and modern-day technology, to track and hopefully capture this elusive giant, with one team receiving a chance at 10 million dollars […]

Ripple Training release their new version of Maste

January 28, 2014, 01:45 PM

http://www.fcp.co/final-cut-pro/tutorials/1329-rip...

Ripple Training has just released their new version of Mastering Multicam Editing in FCPX. The tutorial is now on its third edition. Brand new lessons for 10.1, new downloadable examples and all the info on the latest techniques for $39.99.

This week’s PostChat: Transitioning to other pos

January 28, 2014, 01:45 PM

http://postperspective.com/2014/01/this-weeks-post...

By Randi Altman This Wednesday at 9pm EST/6pm PST, the Twitter-based conversation that is PostChat is taking on the topic of Switching Gears — Transitioning to other positions in post production. Toronto-based Tej Babra, who helps run the weekly PostChat with fellow editors Jesse Averna and Gordon Burkell, knows a bit about switching gears. In […]

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