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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

Oscars Post Mortem: Sound Pros Evaluate Pros/Cons of New Best Sound Category

April 29, 2021, 09:17 AM

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/behind-screen/so...

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences on Sunday handed out a newly renamed Oscar for best sound — combining the prior sound editing and sound mixing categories into a single honor — and while this was a carefully considered change in the Sound Branch and many agree with the move, there are still varying opinions about merging the disciplines. Meanwhile, topics including a potential category name change and how the pandemic affected voting were also raised in this post mortem.

ADR Cueing Made Easy With The FREE PG PT Session Software

April 27, 2021, 08:43 AM

https://www.pro-tools-expert.com/home-page/adr-cue...

Cueing and recording ADR is an essential part of film and narrative television production. ADR sessions are expensive to run, so going into one as organised as possible makes a huge difference.

#sessions#adr#cue sheets
Sound of Metal wins Best Sound and Film Editing at Oscars 2021

April 26, 2021, 08:56 AM

https://www.indiatoday.in/movies/hollywood/story/s...

The Oscars 2021 award for the Best Sound has been won by Becker, Jaime Baksht, Michelle Couttolenc, Carlos Cortes and Phillip Bladh's Sound of Metal. It also won the Best Film Editing, done by Mikkel EG Nielsen. Featuring Riz Ahmed, Sound of Metal takes viewers inside the mind of a metal drummer, named Ruben, who loses his hearing. The film showed the distorted perception of normal sounds when Ruben gets a cochlear implant.

Academy Awards 2021: Films with local ties vie for Oscar gold

April 22, 2021, 09:03 AM

https://www.patriotledger.com/story/entertainment/...

In the Academy of Arts and Sciences 93-year history, only two winners have been South Shore natives, and both hail from Quincy. Ruth Gordon won an Oscar as supporting actress in 1968 for "Rosemary's Baby." Peter Del Vecho, producer of the Disney animated princess tale "Frozen," took home the region's second statuette in 2014.

#academy#oscars#disney#promising young women#frozen
INTRODUCING ‘THE COMPOSER SUCCESS SERIES’ — FEAT. CHARLIE CLOUSER, SHERRI CHUNG, & CINDY O’CONNOR

April 14, 2021, 09:01 AM

https://www.asoundeffect.com/composer-success-seri...

Want to succeed as a composer? Helping you do that is exactly what our new Composer Success Series is all about - offering inspiration, advice on getting started and advancing your career, creative tips and tricks, helpful resources and lessons learned, from some of the industry's most successful composers for film, games and beyond.

#composer
Pro Tools Preferences - Why So Many Choices?

April 13, 2021, 08:58 AM

https://www.pro-tools-expert.com/home-page/pro-too...

In this article, Damian Kearns helps you wrap your mind around Preference settings in Pro Tools by explaining how he uses them in his audio post-production workflow, by focussing on 5 key Preference tabs in the Pro Tools Preferences window.

#pro tools#preferences
A philosophy of sound

April 13, 2021, 08:52 AM

https://aeon.co/essays/the-universal-forces-of-sou...

When John Lennon was asked in 1975 why so many adults disliked rock and roll, calling it the ‘devil’s music’, he replied: ‘I always thought that it’s because it came from Black music.’ Reflecting on the past 400 years of white supremacy in the United States, including the recent attempted insurrection at the US Capitol in January 2021, I often wonder what Lennon would say of us today. Would he tell us to ‘Imagine there’s no heaven’ or would he sing ‘Stand by me’? Would he c...

#rhythm#sound#philosophy
The Mac Pro promised modularity at launch. Two years later, has it delivered?

April 10, 2021, 09:11 AM

https://www.indiewire.com/2021/04/sound-of-metal-s...

At the heart of every filmmaking decision is one question: Where is the audience in relationship to what is happening on screen? One of the most common approaches to answering this question is through subjectivity; by putting the viewer into a character’s point of view (often, quite literally), a filmmaker can shape how we emotionally absorb and viscerally react to the story unfolding on screen.

#design#academy#oscars#sound#sound of metal
Why Pro Tools Subscriptions Are Good News For Everyone

April 6, 2021, 09:28 AM

https://www.pro-tools-expert.com/home-page/pro-too...

Last month Avid announced its 4th quarter and financial results. It’s not something we often report on here at Pro Tools Expert but one stat jumped out at us, that there was a 54.9% year over year growth in subscription revenue growth in the fourth quarter.

#pro tools#subscription

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