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

Understanding Calculation Xpresso

February 10, 2014, 02:06 PM

http://lesterbanks.com/2014/02/calculation-xpresso...

Ever wonder what those things in Cinema 4D’s Xpresso environment do under the X-Pool Calculations menu? Well, here Mographcandy.com’s Dan Conrad goes over the system presets of Xpresso that fall under the “calculation” heading, showing the basic function and use for each. Dan covers Soft Target, Target, Vector Transition, Trigger Distance, and Angle Distance, which can all all be found under X-Pool Calculations.

Video File Formats [Aetuts+]

February 10, 2014, 05:42 AM

http://editorunderconstruction.blogspot.com/2014/0...

Encode videos with Mountain Lion Finder

Using the 2014 NAB Show Free Exhibit Hall Passes f

February 10, 2014, 05:41 AM

http://www.motionelements.com/blog/announcements/u...

The NAB Show is just around the corner, and if you intend to attend the biggest trade show in the broader-casting industry then you’re in luck. MotionElements will be exhibiting for the first time on this year’s NAB Show. To promote the event as well as encourage visitors to the booth, we are giving away [...]

The Making of RoboCop

February 9, 2014, 02:12 PM

http://www.behindvfx.com/post/76118202420/behind-v...

Behind VFX ACCESS is a video curation service for movie fans a direct access to curated playlists of reliable official making-of videos.

The Invisible Art: Matte Painting/Set Extension

February 7, 2014, 06:35 PM

http://library.creativecow.net/manzella_andrew/Mat...

Virtual matte painting and set extension doesn't just live in grand shots of big budget movies anymore. "The Invisible Art" is now affordable through software you likely already own -- but still requires careful preparation during live action shooting if it's to be believable. Here are tips from an Emmy Award-winning local spot that you can apply to your own work, whichever tools you're using.

Behind the Scene with Big Trouble in Little China

February 7, 2014, 06:34 PM

http://www.behindvfx.com/post/75913193447/behind-t...

This is a behind the scenes making of John Carpenter’s (1986) “Big Trouble in Little China" with interview from director John Carpenter, vfx producer Richard Edlund, costume designer and casts Kurt Russell, Kim Cattrall, James Hong and Dennis Dun.

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."

THE SECRET LIFE OF WALTER MITTY: Allan Magled

February 6, 2014, 11:55 AM

http://www.artofvfx.com/?p=5828

Allan Magled began his career in the VFX in 1995 working at CORE Digital Pictures. In 2002, he founded Soho VFX with Berj Bannayan and Mike Mombourquette and worked on many projects including THE CHRONICLES OF NARNIA: THE LION, THE WITCH AND THE WARDROBE, X-MEN: THE LAST STAND, THE A-TEAM or RISE OF THE PLANET OF THE APES.

VFX Guru John Knoll on Limiting Waste

February 5, 2014, 05:32 PM

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/vfx-guru-joh...

TORONTO -- Much is made about Guillermo del Toro's Pacific Rim being an industry game-changer because the $190 million sci-fi blockbuster nabbed 75 percent of its box office from overseas, especially China.

VFX in Dramatic Re-Entry Scene in 'Gravity'

February 5, 2014, 11:01 AM

http://www.indiewire.com/article/watch-visual-effe...

While Alfonso Cuarón's "Gravity" is undoubtedly one of this year's best pictures, it also marks a technical achievement never before seen in film. Rising Sun Pictures (RSP), the visual effects company that produced some effects for the film, decided to breakdown one of the movie's more spectacular sequences in a two minute video.

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