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

Boris AAF Transfer Now Supports Avid DS

August 25, 2010, 02:05 PM

http://www.studiodaily.com/main/news/12488.html

Editors can use Boris AAF Transfer to transfer an entire live Apple Final Cut Pro program sequence with media, markers, cuts, dissolves, filters, and audio preserved. The transferred sequence can be edited and finished in the Avid Media Composer or Avid DS timeline without returning to Final Cut Pro. In addition, Final Cut Pro sequences with Boris Continuum Complete FxPlug filters can be seamlessly transferred to Avid Media Composer or Avid DS. BCC FxPlug filters are translated to...

Tapping Six Seasons of Weeds in the Edit

August 25, 2010, 09:11 AM

http://www.studiodaily.com/main/technique/craft/f/...

Sometimes, obscure features of a piece of software can pay significant dividends to users who take the time to master them. In the case of nonlinear editing, one of the more powerful secret weapons is Avid Media Composer's ScriptSync feature, announced with much ballyhoo at NAB 2007. Previously, Media Composer had a Script function, but it had to be painstakingly implemented by assistants who manually matched lines of dialogue with their corresponding takes. With ScriptSync, the software...

Cutting For Impact: A Conversation W/ Verna Fields

August 25, 2010, 12:10 AM

http://www.fathom.com/feature/122531/

In 1975, Verna Fields won an Oscar for her work editing Jaws, largely due to her discovery that what viewers created in their heads could be much more frightening than what they could have seen on the screen. By editing around the shark, Fields maximized suspense by postponing the viewer's encounter until the third act.

Tina Hirsch Variety Bio

August 25, 2010, 12:08 AM

http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117855804.html?c...

A member of the American Cinema Editors member for more than a decade, Tina Hirsch made a name for herself working for Roger Corman during the '70s. She has since worked with such filmmakers as Joe Dante and Steven Spielberg and has received an ACE Eddie award and an Emmy nom for her work on NBC's "The West Wing." However, as ACE prexy, she has turned her attention to educating both filmmakers and the public about the increasingly significant creative contribution made by editors in the...

Life, Luck and LA Led to a Career Launch

August 25, 2010, 12:07 AM

http://www.editorsguild.com/V2/magazine/archives/0...

Growing up in Connecticut, I had no idea how movies were made. I thought that they just "happened." Although I remember watching television with my mother who would occasionally say, as the credits flicked by, "Oh, I knew him when he was a press agent." I remember thinking how great it would be if one day, when I grew up, I would be lucky enough to know someone whose name was in the credits. I never went to film school. I studied Art History at Boston University. I did, however, religiously...

Editors Unite to Inform the Next Generation

August 25, 2010, 12:06 AM

http://tinahirsch.com/images/editfest_2008.jpg

An article from the first Edit Fest in 2008, posted on Tina Hirsch's Site.

ACE taps 'Wings' Hirsch new prexy

August 25, 2010, 12:04 AM

http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117785181.html?c...

Originally Written in 2000: The American Cinema Editors have named veteran editor Tina Hirsch president, marking the first time in its 50-year history that a woman has headed the organization. Hirsch, currently one of three editors on NBC's "The West Wing," will serve a two-year term. Her credits over the past 20 years include the pilot of "Party of Five," the miniseries "A Will of Their Own" and features including "Dante's Peak," "Honey I Blew Up the Kid," "Delirious," "Gremlins," "Twilight...

Film Crew Flashes Back to the Making of 'Wood

August 24, 2010, 11:58 PM

https://www.editorsguild.com/Magazine.cfm?ArticleI...

In late October, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in Beverly Hills staged one of the most entertaining events in its "Oscar’s Docs" series: a two-night tribute to Michael Wadleigh’s Woodstock, the 1970 Best Documentary Feature winner. Woodstock also marked the first and only time in Academy Awards history that a documentary was nominated for Best Sound (Dan Wallin, Larry Johnson), and one of just two feature documentaries nominated for Best Editing (Thelma Schoonmaker), the...

A Gift for Tina the Gremlins Editor

August 24, 2010, 11:57 PM

http://tinahirsch.com/images/gremlins.jpg

Tina Hirsch was given this hand drawn image as a gift for her work on Gremlins

MPEG CONGRATULATES EMMY WINNERS!

August 24, 2010, 12:11 PM

https://www.editorsguild.com/FromTheGuild.cfm?From...

MPEG Congratulates the Emmy Winners and the nominees.

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