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

Cutting Room Interview with Sabrina Plisco Pt. 3

August 24, 2010, 11:02 AM

https://www.aotg.com/cutting-room-interview-with-sabrina-plisco-pt-3/

This week Gordon wraps up his interview with Sabrina Plisco. Sabrina has cut on such films as Charlotte's Web and Mr. Magroium's Wonder Emporium.

Movie Beat Interview with Editor Michael Hoffman

August 24, 2010, 09:42 AM

http://bit.ly/aYP5O5

An accomplished IATSE editor (Los Angeles Local 700); his credits range from moderate independent productions to large scale features. Highlights include; the upcoming Vindicated Pictures release "Forget Me Not", which stars Carly Schroeder ("Firewall", "Way of the Dolphin") and Cody Linley ("Hannah Montanah"); his directorial effort "ROT: Reunion of Terror" (released March 9th); and the upcoming "Beware" (aka "Cuidado").

Movie Beat's Interview with Michael Matzdorff

August 24, 2010, 09:39 AM

http://bit.ly/bhC6Xn

As an editor his credits include Feature film and Television Editing: "Code Name: The Cleaner" for NewLine Cinema "Monk" for USA Network "Last Comic Standing" and "Sober House"

A Day in the Life of an Assistant

August 22, 2010, 09:07 AM

http://www.joyoffilmediting.com/?p=2981

After reality editor Adam Coleite’s several references to assistant editors in the last two posts, I decided it was high time to talk to one of these unsung post workers, even more unsung than editors! I met assistant TV editor Rachel Dong, fresh from R & R in Hawaii after completing a pilot, in Culver City.

Julian Clarke on Editing District 9, Part 2

August 19, 2010, 11:53 AM

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

Part 2 of Julian Clarke's discussion. Julian Clarke, editor of District 9 discusses his work and approach to cutting District 9. This is a part of the Canadian Cinema Editors screening and discussion events they put on in Toronto, Canada.

Walter Murch, History of Editing

August 19, 2010, 11:51 AM

http://www.macvideo.tv/editing/interviews/?article...

Walter Murch's career began in the 1960's when he was editing and mixing sound with Francis Ford Coppola's The Rain People (1969). Subsequently, he worked on George Lucas's THX 1138, American Graffiti and Coppola's The Godfather before editing picture and mixing sound on Coppola's The Conversation, for which he received an Academy Award nomination in sound. Murch also mixed the sound for Coppola's The Godfather Part II which was released in 1974, the same year as The Conversation. In 1985 he...

Eat Pray Love, cut on FCP

August 18, 2010, 12:01 PM

http://www.macvideo.tv/news/index.cfm?olo=email&ne...

Eat Pray Love, a new Columbia Pictures feature film based on the Elizabeth Gilbert novel of the same title and starring Julia Roberts, was edited entirely in Final Cut Pro. Apple has posted a page detailing the editing team's immense task of turning 70 hours of footage shot in four different countries into a two hour film--all on a tight time-frame.

Editors Discuss Their Craft at EditFest LA

August 18, 2010, 09:57 AM

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

The American Cinema Editors’ (ACE) third annual EditFest LA took place the first weekend of August at Universal Studios. It was a veritable feast of editing talk. The five panel discussions covered a lot of ground––from breaking into the business and making the transition from assistant to editor, to analyzing scenes and talking shop. The opening panel, Welcome to EditFest, moderated by the organization’s president, Randy Roberts, A.C.E., highlighted just how much the field of editing ha...

The Comedy of Cancer

August 18, 2010, 09:56 AM

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

"It’s a comedy about cancer, so there will of course be dramatic undertones to a lot of the material," says David Dworetzky one of three editors on The Big C, which premiered on Showtime on August 16. "But we have to keep in mind that we’re a comedy. It’s easier to forget than one would think." The Big C is a comedy about a woman (Laura Linney) with cancer who resolves to live life to the fullest. However, she doesn’t tell anyone she’s sick, so her family and friends are confused by...

Looking for Mr. Goodeditor

August 18, 2010, 09:55 AM

http://normanhollyn.com/2010/08/16/looking-for-mr-...

Note that the award is called "Best Film Editing" not "Best Film Editor." That’s a crucial difference for me. Editing is truly collaborative, so it’s not really possible to say who made the editorial decisions that result in the film that we see. The editor/s accept this award as representatives for the film’s editing, but there is...

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