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

Mark Livolsi on the Toughest cut in Almost Famous

November 5, 2010, 04:32 PM

http://www.artoftheguillotine.com/assocvideo.php

Mark Livolsi discusses his toughest cut in Almost Famous. This is part of the Manhattan Edit Workshop in NY and the ACE Edit Fest nyeditfest.com

Demystifying Codecs Part 7 of 12

November 5, 2010, 04:30 PM

http://www.artoftheguillotine.com/assocvideo.php

Australian Screen Editors presents "Demystifying Codecs", a seminar on video codecs by Chris Reynolds. This is part 7 of 12. Topics covered in this part include: H264 Settings, Data Rate, Keyframes, Multi-pass Vs. Single-pass, Quality Slider, Scaling, Deinterlace. Chris Reynolds is an editor at ActiveMotion.

Fredrick Wiseman: Luck, Judgement and Patience

November 4, 2010, 09:42 AM

http://mediajock.blogspot.com/2010/07/fredrick-wis...

I got some insight into what kind of temperament one needs to sustain a 60 year career in documentary when I asked Fredrick Wiseman what I imagined to be a fair question: What recent trends in documentary film do you find heartening or perhaps disheartening? "I don't go to films. I mostly read." I pressed him: "You don't watch films? When you go to film festivals or these kinds of events?"

Inglourious editors: A View into the Cutting Room

November 4, 2010, 09:33 AM

http://www.joyoffilmediting.com/?p=3131

MovieMaker magazine, professes to be "The World’s Best-Selling Independent Movie Magazine." So when the editor solicited me for an article for their Fall edition in exchange for ad space about my latest book (Film Editing: Great Cuts Every Filmmaker and Movie Lover Must Know), I accepted her proposition. I wrote and titled this extensive piece weeks...

FCP - Displaying Source or Auxiliary Timecode

November 3, 2010, 10:54 AM

http://www.larryjordan.biz/tips/tip240.html

Here's a fast way to switch your display between timecode tracks.

Interview Clips

November 2, 2010, 08:08 PM

http://splicehere.org/2010/11/02/interview-clips/

Larry Jordan, editor of features and television and the founder of 2pop.com is building a new web site, with lots of interesting content: Hollywood Reinvented. He’s posted six short clips from an interview he did with me recently. Subjects include:

Editors and Assistants Panel

November 2, 2010, 08:06 PM

http://splicehere.org/2010/11/02/editors-and-assis...

Last month I participated in a well-attended panel discussion on the evolution of the editor/assistant relationship. A nicely edited video from the session has been posted by the sponsor, the post house AlphaDogs. Expertly moderated by Debra Kaufman, the panel included me, Diana Friedberg (co-author of the new book, Make the Cut: A Guide to Becoming a Successful Assistant Editor in Film and TV), and our terrific assistants Peter Mergus and Carsten Kurpanek.

Editing in Stereo - Cutting Resident Evil 3D

November 1, 2010, 03:59 PM

http://www.btlnews.com/crafts/editing/editing-in-s...

We recently sat down with Niven Howie, editor on Resident Evil: Afterlife (3D) to get a bit of insight into how he approached cutting his first 3D feature, how he changed his approach to editing and what advice he would give to fellow editors about to embark on their first 3D film.

Fast Cutting: Lyndon Barber goes on a crusade

October 31, 2010, 11:03 PM

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/arts/sound-an...

THRILLERS by definition have always aimed to excite the viewer, using a battery of techniques. Classics such as Alfred Hitchcock's North by Northwest and the early Mad Max, Die Hard, Alien and Terminator films were constructed around brilliantly structured sequences that amounted to miniature symphonies of tension and release, full of excitement, suspense, relief and shock. In the late 1980s and the 90s, Hong Kong films, especially the bullet ballets of John Woo, revolutionised the genre...

Fellowship Honors Memory of Editor Karen Schmeer

October 31, 2010, 01:59 PM

http://www.moviemaker.com/editing/article/fellowsh...

Karen Schmeer, an editor and frequent collaborator of documentarian Errol Morris, was tragically killed in a hit-and-run accident on January 29th, 2010. The Karen Schmeer Film Editing Fellowship has been established by Schmeer’s friends and colleagues to honor her memory and provide opportunities for aspiring film editors.

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