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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

Creating A Retro Video Game Look

February 5, 2021, 01:42 PM

https://www.redgiant.com/blog/2021/02/02/vfx-side-...

Hashi a.k.a. Action Movie Dad takes you on a trip down 16-bit memory lane in a totally rad new VFX Side Quest, walking you through some simple techniques to turn your modern footage into a retro 16-bit video game using Adobe After Effects and Red Giant tools.

AE Classic Course: Warp Stabilizer VFX

December 7, 2020, 09:33 PM

https://www.provideocoalition.com/after-effects-cl...

Back in August, we covered the Warp Stabilizer plug-in in After Effects (which is also now included in Premiere Pro). This tool automatically scans footage looking for edges and “planes” such as the walls of buildings or other features, and re-renders the footage with a smoother camera move imposed upon it.

The Order of Effects Makes a Difference in Final C

December 6, 2020, 09:40 PM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VNrOjvtlW4Y

https://larryjordan.com "The Order of Effects Makes a Difference in Final Cut Pro X" is an excerpt from a recent PowerUp webinar presented by Larry Jordan. Effects are the fun part of video editing because there are so many different options. In this video tutorial, Larry Jordan shows why the order in which you place effects on a clip makes a difference in the results in Apple Final Cut Pro X. View the entire webinar here: https://larryjordan.com/store/300-effects-overview-in-apple...

Render Faster in After Effects Using the Command L

December 4, 2020, 01:38 PM

https://lesterbanks.com/2020/12/render-faster-in-a...

You and Me Acadamy shows how you speed up your Ae renders by using the command line. Everyone wants to render faster, right? While most After Effects renders don’t take too long compared to some

After Effects Classic Course: Refine Edge Tool

November 23, 2020, 05:44 PM

https://www.provideocoalition.com/after-effects-cl...

Convert any hard-edged binary mask into a sophisticated, variable soft-edged mask for hair and other tricky details.

Tips for Compositing Special Effects in AE

October 29, 2020, 04:59 PM

https://www.shutterstock.com/blog/compositing-spec...

We’ve covered some basic compositing tips in After Effects before, so now let’s learn some techniques for compositing special effects. These tips are useful for both practical and CGI effects you’re adding into your footage. The best part is that you don’t need any third-party plugins for any of the effects in After Effects.

After Effects Classic Course: Rolling Shutter Repa

October 26, 2020, 07:35 PM

https://www.provideocoalition.com/after-effects-cl...

A “feature” of many or most video cameras these days is that the pixels at the top of a frame are captured at a slightly different time than the pixels at the bottom of the frame. If the camera or the object you were shooting moves during this time, there will be in offset in the position of objects, causing them to appear to lean along the direction of the camera’s movement. This distortion of the object can make it more difficult to composite new objects into a scene, among other problem...

Motion 5: New! 3D Objects and the Stroke Filter

September 20, 2020, 02:21 PM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wEL2wz-98fQ

https://larryjordan.com "Motion 5: 3D Objects and the Stroke Filter" is an excerpt from a recent PowerUp webinar presented by Larry Jordan. In this short video tutorial, Larry Jordan showcases two new features in Motion 5: 3D Objects and the Stroke filter. He also illustrates how to apply color and texture to the 3D object. View the entire webinar here: https://larryjordan.com/store/292-new-features-in-apple-final-cut-pro-x-10-4-9/ Check out Larry's new book, Techniques of Visu...

2 Quick Ways to Animate Opacity in Fusion

August 18, 2020, 01:08 PM

https://lesterbanks.com/2020/08/2-quick-ways-to-an...

Noah Hähnel shows two quick ways to animate opacity in Fusion and Resolve. In layer compositors like Adobe After Effects, every layer has it’s own opacity slider, making it easy and intuitive to animate opacity

Do more with Particles in Fusion and Resolve

August 12, 2020, 12:27 PM

https://lesterbanks.com/2020/08/do-more-with-parti...

A new guide from Noah Hähnel covers working with custom particles and forces in Fusion and Resolve. Are you looking to up your particle game in Fusion? Two incredibly useful nodes in both Black Magic

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