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

Post Positions: A New Economic Reality

May 21, 2010, 04:48 PM

http://www.postmagazine.com/ME2/dirmod.asp?sid=639...

Following a turbulent year in the global economy, many industries have been forced to look long and hard at their operation strategies and practices in hopes of saving more and spending with more caution.

Contender - Editor Andrew Weisblum, The Wrestler

May 16, 2010, 04:31 PM

http://www.btlnews.com/awards/contender-portfolios...

Andrew Weisblum was the perfect choice when director Darren Aronofsky needed a "hungry editor" for his reality-based film The Wrestler. After 13 years of assisting, primarily in New York, Weisblum had only edited a handful of features (including The Darjeeling Unlimited and Broken English). The pair had met when Weisblum was visual effects editor on Aronofsky’s last film, The Fountain.

Aronofsky Wrestles with Andrew Weisblum

May 16, 2010, 04:29 PM

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

Thanks to his role in Darren Aronofsky’s The Wrestler, Mickey Rourke’s trophy room will soon need a renovation. The awards that he’s been nominated for, or already won, are piling up, but the man who deserves maybe the most thanks is a name very few are familiar with: Andrew Weisblum.

EditFest NY 2009 Features Panel Video

May 14, 2010, 04:27 PM

https://www.aotg.com/editfest-ny-2009-features-panel-video/

Editors Brian Kates (ACE), Craig McKay (ACE), Jay Rabinowitz (ACE), Tim Squyres (ACE) and Chris Tellefsen (ACE) discuss their experiences in feature film editing. Go to www.editfestny.com for information on this year's event.

First Year Report... In 3D!

May 14, 2010, 04:27 PM

http://thefinecut.blogspot.com/2010/05/first-year-...

One year ago today, I started this blog. 45 posts later, I realize that I might have something worth continuing and never imagined the incredible support I would get from readers, as well as terrific bloggers like Craig Simpson, Jason Bellamy, Ed Howard amongst others (please visit all of the blogs listed on the right side of this page) who usually comment here.

A Day in the Life of a Soap Opera Editor

May 13, 2010, 04:23 PM

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

"Days of Our Lives is a completely in-house operation," says lead editor and associate director Lugh Powers. "Deadlines are intense. The production company requires the maximum in speed, flexibility and reliability to produce a daily one-hour program. Because we have such a fast turnaround from production to air, we get pretty aggressive with time management and efforts to streamline the workflow."

EditFest NY 2009 Television Panel Video

May 12, 2010, 04:16 PM

https://www.aotg.com/editfest-ny-2009-television-panel-video/

American Cinema Editors (A.C.E.) and Manhattan Edit Workshop present highlights from EditFest NY 2009. This is the fourth video in this series from the Television Panel featuring Alexander Hall (

Avoiding Cutting Boredom

May 12, 2010, 04:14 PM

http://postfifthpictures.com/2010/05/avoiding-cutt...

I will be the first to admit that I don’t always work on some exciting stuff. Every once in a while we’ve all had to fill in the cracks, pay the bills, call it what you want. I get pretty bored in the middle of these edits sometimes. I start to daydream of the last project I was on or surf the internet or twitter or end up watching all SNL Digital Shorts known to man to avoid cutting. When it comes down to it, they need to get done though.

Budgeting for Editing Means Understanding Process

May 10, 2010, 04:08 PM

http://www.joyoffilmediting.com/?p=2780

I expected this book to be just a bunch of budget forms with boring explanations. Was I off the mark! It’s a 465-page handbook that educates moviemakers on what happens in each stage of a project, explaining how to anticipate a film so that the process runs as smoothly as possible. Veteran producer...

Interview with Herb Dow, A.C.E.

May 10, 2010, 04:07 PM

https://www.aotg.com/interview-with-herb-dow-a-c-e/

Herb talks to us about his background in editing system, from his days editing Star Trek and Mission Impossible (the TV show) to today and how editing has evolved. We also talk about tapeless workflow and how it works in Hollywood.

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