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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

Building the Lego Movie

February 7, 2014, 06:02 AM

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/09/movies/lego-movi...

The colorful blocks and cheerful figures of the Lego world have entertained generation after generation of children worldwide and remain a source of artistic expression for adults, too. Now, they’ve been assembled for the first time in a full-length feature film.

BECTU Calls on U.K. Screen Association

February 7, 2014, 06:01 AM

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/behind-screen/bec...

The Broadcasting, Entertainment, Cinematograph and Theatre Union (BECTU) is calling on the U.K. Screen Association — which represents U.K.-based visual effects companies -- to conduct a “full, independent inquiry into the work conditions that people in VFX face, especially the problem of long hours."

What is a decent day rate for a non-union AE

February 6, 2014, 05:53 AM

http://renderplease.tumblr.com/post/75615305518/wh...

Anonymous asked: What is a decent day rate for a non-union AE job at a respectable production company? Answer: Ah, yes…the infamous rate question. So many factors affect an AE’s rate and it really...

SFX Independence – Welcome to 2014

February 6, 2014, 05:49 AM

http://designingsound.org/2014/02/sfx-independence...

The year is still fresh, but 2014′s already brought us a number of great new SFX libraries. Go back to analog times and the earliest days of digital with new collections from New Sound Labs and Dynamic Interference. Or just blow the whole thing up with Blastwave FX’s latest offering.

Apple's secret ingredient: Clarity

February 5, 2014, 05:33 PM

http://periscopepost.com/technology-22/apple-s-sec...

While it frustrates some people when Apple redesigns Final Cut Pro or the Mac Pro and it no longer seems to serve the power-user base, it ultimate ends up empowering a far larger base. That's Apple's longstanding mission — to make technology ever-more accessible. And one of the primary ways Apple accomplishes that mission is through clarity. Jim Dalrymple, writing for The Loop...

THE STRUGGLE FOR 4K Ultra HD

February 5, 2014, 09:37 AM

http://nonlinearpost.com/4k-ultra-hd-struggle/

Tech geeks love it. Cinematographers embrace it. Television manufacturers and Internet delivery systems promote it. Post houses try to ignore it. American broadcasters reject it. Studios well, um, will always find a way to profit from it before it becomes commonplace. Like the motion picture business, the content production process, and the way we receive content is changing. In addition, our viewing habits are changing as well.

#editing#4k#post production#uhd#ultra hd#media trends#ultra high definition
How To Use FCPX 10.1 - Giant Round Up

February 5, 2014, 07:24 AM

http://jonnyelwyn.co.uk/film-and-video-editing/how...

In this fairly epic round up of FCPX 10.1 tutorials you can learn how to upgrade smoothly, get to grips with the new features and work with 4K media.

#fcpx#4k#fcpx 101#new features in fcpx#editing 4k in fcpx#upgrading
Avid Still Has Problems With Video In Pro Tools 1

February 5, 2014, 05:45 AM

http://www.pro-tools-expert.com/home-page/2014/2/5...

More recently I have only being doing the occasional project with video and so I haven’t been personally aware how much trouble my audio post colleagues have been having with video playback and Pro Tools 11. However last week it came and but me at an awkward moment.

Learning Avid Media Composer 7

February 4, 2014, 03:02 PM

http://jonnyelwyn.co.uk/film-and-video-editing/lea...

A round up of Avid's latest series of tutorials on learning Avid Media Composer 7, plus a few tutorials for FCP7 switchers and 11 tutorials on what assistant editors need to know when using Avid.

#assistant editor#tutorials#assistant editing#avid media composer 7#switching
SUPER BOWL: ThinkBreatheLive helps create dynamic

February 4, 2014, 01:51 PM

http://www.postmagazine.com/Press-Center/Daily-New...

NEW YORK — Touchdown Entertainment engaged New York-based creative shop ThinkBreatheLive to produce digital environments for the Super Bowl halftime show, including a dynamic LED experience that turned the stadium into an immersive panoramic concert screen.

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