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

Industry Legends: editor Michael Kahn Interview

February 20, 2011, 12:15 PM

https://www.aotg.com/industry-legends-editor-michael-kahn-interview/

Michael Kahn celebrates his 75th birthday with three new films coming out this year coming out of his cutting room. Associated with Steven Spielberg since the started working together on Close Encounters of the Third Kind in 1976, Kahn has taken home 3 Oscars and a parade of other awards an nominations. He & Spielberg are known as the last converts to digital editing and just this last year Kahn gave up his Moviola for an Avid as Spielberg directed his first digital movie, The Adventures of...

The Social Network, editors Angus Wall, Kirk Baxte

February 19, 2011, 12:48 PM

https://www.aotg.com/the-social-network-editors-angus-wall-kirk-baxte/

The Social Network, editors Angus Wall, Kirk Baxter take part in a interview with DP/30.

In the Cut: Employing the Art of Editing, Pt. 2

February 19, 2011, 11:08 AM

http://quintessential.posterous.com/in-the-cut-emp...

After the initial "shock therapy", the rest of the evening was devoted to a milder approach, a "brainwashing", Manchurian Candidate style, of images and cuts that made sense and yet didn't have to spell out each emotion you were supposed to feel by spoonfeeding you each reaction shot!

Editing TV Drama

February 19, 2011, 11:05 AM

http://www.cutaway.co.za/post/3381299963/editing-t...

Maryke Kruger (S.A.G.E) has been nominated for Best Editing: TV Drama Series for Home Affairs at this year's SAFTA's. Cutaway spoke to Maryke to give us some insight into cutting TV Drama Series.

In the Cut: Employing the Art of Editing

February 18, 2011, 04:22 PM

http://quintessential.posterous.com/in-the-cut-emp...

It's hard to convey the sheer brilliance of the seminar a lucky few of us had the chance to attend last night. I've seen glimpses of this type of information, namely in two places, Peter D. Marshall's directing course and in an introductory speech by Professor Daniel Jacobo from Chaffey College on the Tao of Super 8.

So What Do You Put In The Sequence

February 18, 2011, 04:04 PM

http://blogs.nppa.org/editfoundry/2011/02/18/so-wh...

This entry is about sequencing. You already know about sequencing? Bare with me. You might learn something even if you understand sequencing already.

Editors Angus Wall and Kirk Baxter and The Social

February 18, 2011, 02:41 PM

http://www.studiodaily.com/filmandvideo/currentiss...

The skeleton of every film is a screenplay, but few can boast as strong a bone structure as the one provided by screenwriter Aaron Sorkin for The Social Network, the fast-paced, fast-talking story of fast times behind the scenes of Facebook. Moving self-assuredly among a multiplicity of different settings — they include the Harvard campus where Mark Zuckerberg's ideas were born, the Henley Royal Regatta rowing event where Zuckerberg's classmates lose a race by a whisker, and the noisy...

Craig McKay Takes Short Cuts

February 18, 2011, 12:11 PM

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

American Cinema Editors (ACE) and Manhattan Edit Workshop had the inspired idea to create a series called Short Cuts in order to "get that EditFest feeling all year long." The intention in both cases was the same: To create a deeper understanding of the editor’s invisible art by having master film editors discuss and screen their work for film students, editors and enthusiasts. But instead of having panels of editors for an entire weekend, Short Cuts would focus on one esteemed editor and take...

The Five Stages of Editing: Denial, Anger, Bargain

February 18, 2011, 10:53 AM

http://guerillashowrunner.com/2011/02/the-five-sta...

Editing the series – let’s say three weeks? Nah, two week – Ok, Bob, one and a half weeks. That should be, like, 3 days to review all the footage, 2 days to do a rough assembly of the episodes, and maybe another 3 days to polish. No worries.

Cutting My Beautiful Game a SAFTA Nominee

February 18, 2011, 09:05 AM

http://www.cutaway.co.za/post/3357648711/cutting-m...

My Beautiful Game is a 13 part documentary series that explores African football within its broader historical, cultural and anthropological narratives. The show covers stories across the entire African continent. There is a kaleidoscope of geography, politics, and national characteristics as one traverses the continent from Cairo to Lagos to Cape Town.

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