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

Editor Lisa Gunning on Nowhere Boy

November 19, 2009, 04:15 AM

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

Editor Lisa Gunning got her big break in 1998, when her affiliation with The Whitehouse in London led her into a gig working with director Anthony Minghella on a short project for Comic Relief. One thing led to another, and Gunning was eventually offered the job of cutting what would be, sadly, Minghella's final film, Breaking and Entering, in 2006. She keeps busy cutting commercials, and her most recent feature project is Nowhere Boy, which looks at the life of a teenaged John Lennon and his...

Murch Talk Recap

November 19, 2009, 04:15 AM

http://splicehere.wordpress.com/2009/11/19/avid-at...

I spoke at a very interesting meeting of the LA Final Cut Pro User Group last night, along with Walter Murch and Shane Ross. Walter talked about moving back to MC after years with FCP and described in fascinating detail the relative merits of each application...

Paul Martin Smith | The Role of the Editor

November 19, 2009, 04:13 AM

https://www.aotg.com/paul-martin-smith-the-role-of-the-editor/

Paul Martin Smith, Editor of The phantom Menace talks about the Role of the editor for "Making of..."

Editing as Sculpture

November 18, 2009, 04:11 AM

http://editmentor.wordpress.com/2009/11/17/editing...

So what does sculpture have to do with understanding editing? You might be surprised.

Edit Bay Episode 17

November 17, 2009, 04:08 AM

http://lfhd.net/2009/11/17/the-edit-bay-episode-17...

The seventeenth episode of THE EDIT BAY is now available for download (I just now realized that I never announced that Ep.16 was too...I’ll fix that). This one is about having footage on the brain.

Edit Bay - Episode 16

November 17, 2009, 04:07 AM

http://lfhd.net/2009/11/17/the-edit-bay-episode-16...

Apparently I missed posting this, but the sixteenth episode of THE EDIT BAY is now available for download, and has been for a couple weeks. This one is about "rock and rolling" a cut about....Jesus.

Editing Emmerich's 2012

November 16, 2009, 04:04 AM

http://www.postmagazine.com/ME2/dirmod.asp?sid=&nm...

CULVER CITY - Editor Peter S. Elliot and assistant editor Rob Molina were part of the team that cut Roland Emmerich’s new apocalyptic feature 2012. The film stars John Cusack, Amanda Peet, Danny Glover and Chiwetel Ejiofor, and was shot digitally using the Genesis camera, though 35mm was used for some underwater sequences. Post recently had a chance to chat with members of the editorial team regarding their work on the 2 hour and 35 minute film, which is loaded with visual effects, many...

Making the right Connection

November 13, 2009, 04:00 AM

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

Since she discovered her passion for post-production while studying film at the University of California Santa Barbara, there was nothing up in the air about the career choice of Dana Glauberman, A.C.E. Originally interested in photography, she took a production class that had her doing everything from writing to directing and producing. It was that class––and cutting her Super-8 short film––that opened her eyes to the joys and wonders of editing.

Fixing Television, One Show at a Time

November 13, 2009, 03:59 AM

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

To hear Stuart Bass, A.C.E., talk about television editing, one might think he has an insouciant attitude towards his craft. "Editing comedy is a specific talent...it’s just difficult to say what that talent is," he says glibly. According to his website, www.filmbutcher.com, he has written or has been a contributor to such books as How to Get Ahead in Hollywood Without Any Talent and Make Sure the Below-the-Line People Stay There...

Cut/Print

November 13, 2009, 03:58 AM

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

Despite the proliferation of eBooks and the Internet, publishing of actual books on paper about motion pictures continued strong in 2009. As we move into the second decade of the 21st century, editing technologies are highly volatile. But the need for reference manuals that one can carry about and easily access endures. Here is a holiday garland of recent books that post-production professionals and movie buffs may find essential reading.

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