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

Into the Storm: MPC & The Finest Hours

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Cinefex 146 Cover Reveal

March 23, 2016, 04:51 AM

http://cinefex.com/blog/cinefex-146-cover-reveal/

In an alternate universe, a lone survivor from the dying planet Krypton goes head to head with a chiropteran crimefighter, before teaming up with a squad of shape-shifting (and extremely shiny) Ancient Egyptian gods to fend off a devastating alien attack and recover a kidnapped movie star, while all the time a potty-mouthed superhero looks on from afar, making sarcastic comments.

FMX 2016 Spotlighting Oscar Winners

March 22, 2016, 06:47 PM

http://www.awn.com/news/fmx-2016-spotlighting-osca...

Filmakademie graduate and Disney/Pixar Character TD Tanja Krampfert discusses the creation of Joy in ‘Inside Out,’ while DoP Patrick Lin illuminates the special camera set-up designed to parallel the main character’s emotional journey.

Scene Clip, Easily Store and Restore Entire After

March 22, 2016, 09:22 AM

http://lesterbanks.com/2016/03/after-effects-scene...

Scene Clip allows you to store and restore entire after effects compositions. The Post Scene Clip, Easily Store and Restore Entire After Effects Comps originally appeared and published on %%BLOGLINK%,by lesterbanks

Fix it in pre: A VFX artist’s guide to motion co

March 22, 2016, 09:21 AM

http://blogs.adobe.com/creativecloud/fix-it-in-pre...

Patrik Forsberg will be presenting the session “A VFX Guide to Slamming the Boundaries Between Live Action and Game Engine Tech” in the Adobe booth at NAB 2016 on Tuesday, April 19, 2016 at 5:30 PM and Wednesday, April 20, 2016 at 4:00 PM. Though he started his professional career touring Europe as a musician, today Patrik Forsberg is the Creative Director at Stiller Studios, a Swedish creative agency that focuses on intricate motion control work. The path he took to get where he is tod...

FXFactory and Dashwood Cinema collaborate to creat

March 22, 2016, 09:21 AM

http://www.videoguys.com/blog/fxfactory-dashwood-c...

360VR Toolbox created by these developers is still in beta, but is scheduled for official release in April just before NAB. These sound like promising tools for 360-degree content creators. Be sure to check them out at NAB in the Virtual Reality Pavilion. FXFactory Joins Dashwood Cinema For 360-Virtual Reality Plugins By James DeRuvo (doddleNEWS) Read More The post FXFactory and Dashwood Cinema collaborate to create plugins for 360-degree video editing appeared first on Videoguys Blog.

BBC TV production change could mean more workflow

March 22, 2016, 09:21 AM

http://alex4d.com/notes/item/bbc-tv-production-cha...

Proponents of Final Cut Pro X and Adobe Premiere are frustrated when editors of high-end TV and features say "I don't know anyone who doesn't use Avid." We value case studies showing what alternative applications can do. In the UK, the BBC is not allowed to publicise its workflows - used on TV shows that are world-famous - because being cubically-funded it is not allowed to promote one commercial supplier over others. All we can do is gather indirect information, such as tweets by those...

Smart tagging at REAL2016

March 22, 2016, 05:49 AM

http://www.postmagazine.com/Post-Blog/2016/March/S...

At Autodesk's REAL2016 conference, there was a bit of technology that might become of some use for film and video editorial ingest. The conference, which brings together reality capture and computing technology to service the architecture, industrial design and civil engineering communities, often overlaps with other fields. It turns out that the construction industry also needs to sift through hours of source footage - in their case from construction sites looking for views of progress, in...

The Ongoing Merger

March 22, 2016, 05:47 AM

https://www.aotg.com/the-ongoing-merger/

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