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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

AE Project Diary: 9) Digital van replacement

July 18, 2019, 10:00 AM

https://www.provideocoalition.com/ae-project-diary...

In July last year I began work on a number of vfx shots for a short film called “At the edge of night”. I had expected the work to take about two weeks, and I certainly didn’t think that it would be almost a year before the final shot was actually delivered.  But that’s what... The post AE Project Diary: 9) Digital van replacement appeared first on ProVideo Coalition.

Text Message and Chat Effects for Final Cut Pro X

July 18, 2019, 09:59 AM

https://fxfactory.com/blog/effects-2/text-message-...

Emulate SMS, iMessage, Facebook and WhatsApp text, image and video chats with ease.

Animate Text without Keyframes or Plugins in FCPX

July 18, 2019, 05:50 AM

https://library.creativecow.net/williams_bret/anim...

Join longtime editor, VFX artist, plug-in developer, Creative COW leader Bret Williams of BretFX to learn how the FCPX Custom text tool allows you to animate text in Final Cut Pro X without using keyframes or plugins. With the often overlooked custom text tool you can easily create great text animation with just a couple of clicks. Change opacity, position, rotation, scale, duration, spread, blur and easing all without creating a single keyframe!

How to Render Foliage in Arnold

July 17, 2019, 01:04 PM

https://lesterbanks.com/2019/07/how-to-render-foli...

Damon Lavenski posts a multi-part tutorial on how to render foliage With Arnold Renderer. There are lots of components that go into creating nice or realistic renders. It’s not just shaders, maps or lighting; it’s

AE & Mocha Pro - Reverse Stabilization Workflow

July 17, 2019, 09:56 AM

https://vimeo.com/348133505

Use Mocha Pro's planar tracking to reverse stabilize your shots for clean-ups and more. Mocha Pro 2019 now includes the CC Power Pin export format, making a simple workflow to achieve a "stabilized pre-comp" workflow for compositing tasks.

What’s the Difference Between Scripts, Extension

July 17, 2019, 09:55 AM

https://lesterbanks.com/2019/07/whats-the-differen...

Nathan Lovell clarifies the differences between scripts, extensions, and plugins in After Effects. Many Adobe After Effects users will use the terms interchangeably, but they are called different things for a reason – because they

How to Make a Procedural Glowing Rock Material in

July 17, 2019, 06:40 AM

https://lesterbanks.com/2019/07/how-to-make-a-proc...

Nathan Duck covers how to create procedural glowing rock under Eevee or Cycles. If you like shading tutorials and the like in Blender and don’t follow Nathan Duck, maybe you should fix that. Nathan covers

How to Remove a Drone Shadow Using Nuke Projection

July 16, 2019, 12:26 PM

https://lesterbanks.com/2019/07/how-to-remove-a-dr...

Nao Adachi shows how to use projection mapping for easy removal a wandering drone shadow from a shot. You don’t need to be a visual effects expert to work a lot of the tools that

Creating and Rendering a Spiderweb with Houdini, M

July 16, 2019, 09:58 AM

https://lesterbanks.com/2019/07/creating-and-rende...

Arvid Schneider builds a spiderweb in Houdini, lighting in Maya and renders with Arnold. Lighting TD Arvid Schneider recreates a photo of his of a spiderweb that has a lot of lens artifacts attached and

AE Like a Boss

July 16, 2019, 06:13 AM

https://motionworks.net/after-effects-like-a-boss/

This is an extended version of the presentation I gave at Sea Connect Creative Conference in Malaysia and Singapore in which I breakdown a title animation created for the session. I use included effects plus some third party scripts including Physics Now, Squash & Stretch Pro, Speed Lines and stock including Grit Kit and ink footage.

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