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 Basics 57: Export 3 - Render Settings

November 21, 2012, 07:12 AM

http://library.creativecow.net/devis_andrew/AE-Bas...

AE Basics - A Creative COW series for new users of Adobe After Effects. Lesson 57: In this tutorial looking at getting your production out of After Effects, Andrew Devis goes through the render settings dialogue box and explains why you would choose to export through After Effects and how to save a template of your choices.

#adobe#vfx#after effects#ae#effects#visual fx
What Does a VFX Editor Do?

November 17, 2012, 11:36 AM

http://www.premiumbeat.com/blog/what-does-a-vfx-ed...

Get an inside perspective of what it's like to be a visual effects editor. In this post, we've rounded up the thoughts and experiences from three post-production pros. Interesting info for anyone breaking into the industry or thinking about specializing in VFX.

#editor#vfx#film editor#vfx editor#fisual fx
NYC - Manhattan Edit Workshop

November 15, 2012, 10:14 PM

http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/industryhappenings/...

When: Wednesday, December 5th Time: 6:30pm – 8:30pm Cost: FREE!! Location: Manhattan Edit Workshop, 80 Fifth Avenue Suite 1501 New York, NY 10011 6:30pm: Refreshments and Meet & Greet at Manhattan Edit Workshop 7:00pm – 7:40pm: mocha Pro demo mocha Pro – Motion Tracking and Visual Effects with Ross Shain, CMO Imagineer Systems mocha Pro is the award winning Planar Tracking software...

#vfx#mew#manhattan edit workshop#mocha
The Masters of Compositing Series – Part 1

November 13, 2012, 10:06 PM

http://www.wemakemovies.org/2012/11/masters-compos...

Since receiving his engineering degree from the University of California at Berkeley in 1941, Vlahos has served the motion picture industry as a design engineer, field engineer, systems engineer and as the Chief Scientist for the Association of Motion Picture and Television Producers’ Research Center.

#vfx#film#compositing
Setting Ambient Lights in After Effects

November 13, 2012, 03:14 PM

http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/richardharringtonbl...

This Motion Control 3D tutorial shows how to create believable depth by adding ambient light to an animated photo in After Effects.

#adobe#vfx#after effects#ae
The Matrix effect in After Effects

November 12, 2012, 05:06 AM

http://provideocoalition.com/index.php/ryoung/stor...

There are a number of ways to generate the Matrix text effect, and reflex dictates a list. Several tutorials have been done using particles with Particle Playground and CC Particle World, and other built-in and 3rd-party tools.

#adobe#vfx#after effects#ae#matrix#visual fx#title screen
Autodesk Flame turns 20

November 6, 2012, 10:03 AM

http://gfxspeak.com/2012/10/30/autodesk-flame-turn...

In 1992 a small company named Discreet Logic introduced a new software tool for creating visual special effects for film and TV. Created by Gary Tregaskis, it was originally named Flash, later changed to Flame. It didn't take long for the industry to warm up to the new software; "Super Mario Bros." was the first movie to use Flame a few months later. Not long after, Flame introduced 3D compositing, allowing video artists to composite on one layer in 3D that included lights, displacement...

#autodesk#flame#vfx#visual effeects#special effects
CoreMelt Brings Masking Tools to FCPX

November 5, 2012, 09:06 AM

http://news.creativecow.net/story/870163

(Sydney, Australia--November 5, 2012) CoreMelt, a leading provider of advanced video plug-in effects for the editorial, design and visual effects communities, today announced the release of its SliceX product for Final Cut Pro X.

#fcpx#vfx#final cut pro#plugin#visual effects#coremelt#plug-in#slicex
Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant

November 5, 2012, 09:02 AM

http://www.artofthetitle.com/title/cirque-du-freak...

While many cinematic title sequences suffer from a sense of autopilot, the main title for Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant keeps you guessing. Taking on the thrust of a children’s nightmare, the resulting aesthetic is innocent but deftly tuned with motifs of fear — a surefire way to take the edge off the sweetness.

#assistant#title#vfx#visual effects#cirque du freak#vampire
Adobe After Effects CS6 Studio Techniques

November 5, 2012, 09:01 AM

http://www.peachpit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=19...

Too often, editors are afraid of using After Effects, because they don't aim for the more manageable and appropriate things you can do in AE. Mark Christiansen, author of Adobe After Effects CS6 Visual Effects and Compositing Studio Techniques, shows how powerful After Effects can be when you use it to handle even commonplace tasks.

#media#adobe#cs6#vfx#premiere pro#premiere#visual effects#studio#encoder#techniques#compsiting#mark christiansen

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