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

The Wild Wild West: not just a new series

July 10, 2011, 11:38 AM

http://ace-filmeditors.org/tech-blog/the-wild-wild...

Not very long ago we all got dailies from the lab, sunk to sound, coded, and assembled cut film into reels. A negative cutter matched our work, spliced the negative, and we color timed a print for release or broadcast.

Great Edited Movies You Never Saw PT. 1

July 8, 2011, 11:50 AM

https://www.aotg.com/great-edited-movies-you-never-saw-pt-1/

Editor Peter Frank, A.C.E. talks about his experiences editing a scene in "Cadillac Records". For more information on Editfest NY please go to editfestny.com. This video was produced by Manhattan Edit Workshop and edited by John Schlirf.

Talking to Daniel Rezende

July 8, 2011, 09:11 AM

http://editorunderconstruction.blogspot.com/2011/0...

Interviews in Portuguese with the famous Brazilian editor. If you know Castilian, and interested, you learn well;)

Inside The Edit: Mission Impossible 4 Trailer

July 7, 2011, 03:42 PM

http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/jaymckinnon/NZZT/~3...

Mission Impossible 3 was by far my favorite film in the franchise. J.J Abrams blew me away. It had the best villain, the best action and the best story. It was also the first movie to really show Tom Cruise’s Ethan Hunt as a human being with family and love at stake.

Cutting Transformers 3's Metal Mayhem in 3D

July 7, 2011, 03:42 PM

http://www.studiodaily.com/main/news/13281.html

Michael Bay knows what he wants from a Transformers movie: big effects, beautiful women, and a cocky kid who knows how to talk to giant robots. Working on that movie means getting into a Michael Bay frame of mind, understanding how all the disparate parts of the project are, over time, coming together in a two-and-a-half-hour burst of highly choreographed and very expensive metal mayhem. For editors, that means using the script and previsualizations as starting points, then building the picture

Eps. 61 Interview with Dany Cooper

July 5, 2011, 11:24 AM

https://www.aotg.com/eps-61-interview-with-dany-cooper-2/

This week Gordon interviews Dany Cooper, one of Australia's top film editors who has worked on such films as Australia, Beneath Hill 60 and Battlestar Galactica...

Sometimes no cutting is needed

July 5, 2011, 09:47 AM

http://www.joyoffilmediting.com/?p=3794

I thought this was a fitting Fourth of July blog. What could be more American than a large Midwestern town executing an upbeat music video to an iconic pop tune with the help of a few corporations? The amazing feat of this boisterously camouflaged ad is the fact that it's shot single camera in one...

FCPX BTS: retiming & conforming footage

July 4, 2011, 05:27 PM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-PNNnfteBM&feature...

just a little work-around to maintain your storyline timing if you "re-time" a clip ... might not be the best way ... maybe you have a better way ... if so, let me know!

The signs of a good edit - Black Swan

July 4, 2011, 03:15 PM

http://www.jaa-editing.com/blog/the-signs-of-a-goo...

To me, conveying the appropriate emotions whilst skillfully telling the story is what a good edit is all about. It can't extend in the same way to all genres, the appropriate footage and story must exist in the first place.... but the editor is the one who puts it all together and creates the magic that the audience are able to take away with them.

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