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

Editing Actually

December 7, 2010, 11:28 AM

http://www.joyoffilmediting.com/?p=3263

In my Web meanderings this week, I came across a site that gives a good ride through Hollywood movies. www.filmsite.org honors filmmakers of all types (actors, editors, directors, etc.) as well as all genres (horror, comedy, sci-fi etc.) Written and edited by Senior Editor and Film Historian Tim Dirks who launched the site in 1998 it now runs it under the auspices of American Movie Classics (AMC). Dirks does a great job detailing each movie for plot and whatever...

Boris FX Announces New Boris Continuum Unit

December 7, 2010, 11:26 AM

http://www.studiodaily.com/main/news/12776.html

Marlborough MA - December 7, 2010 - Boris FX, the leading developer of integrated effects technology for video and film, today announced that a new Boris Continuum Unit, Morph, is now available. The Boris Continuum Morph Unit allows Adobe After Effects artists to generate real-time static or animated image warps, animated image morphs between a pair of still images, and animated video morphs from video clips.

Lightworks Open source BETA

December 7, 2010, 11:25 AM

http://www.lightworksbeta.com/index.php?option=com...

The Lightworks public beta is now available. You can register and download the software here. (Their server was down earlier this morning, but it seems to be working now.) On paper, the feature list is impressive and focused squarely on high-end editing. A few highlights:

Slipping and Sliding in MC5

December 7, 2010, 11:23 AM

http://splicenow.com/2010/12/06/slipping-and-slidi...

In Media Composer 4, if you lassoed a clip from right to left, you selected it for slipping. Adding the Option key (Alt in the PC world) selected it for sliding. Many people have bemoaned the loss of this functionality in Version 5, but, in fact, it’s still there. The modifier keys have changed, and there’s also a hidden gotcha that can make you think the functionality has been lost.

Matrox Adds Exciting New Workflow Features

December 7, 2010, 11:21 AM

http://www.studiodaily.com/main/news/12769.html

Matrox Vetura Capture lets users quickly and easily capture QuickTime files using popular codecs installed on their editing systems. Users of Adobe Premiere Pro CS5 can capture to the Matrox MPEG2 I-frame full raster (1920 x 1080) HD codec or to other popular Adobe-supported codecs. Users of Final Cut Pro can capture to ProRes and other popular Final Cut Pro codecs. Users of Avid Media Composer can capture directly to Avid DNxHD .mov files or other popular Avid-supported codecs.

Dan Katz - Artist In Residence

December 6, 2010, 04:47 PM

https://www.aotg.com/dan-katz-artist-in-residence/

Editor Dan Katz talks about starting a career in editing and his personal inspirations on his editing techniques. He has been a freelance editor in New York City for more than a decade, with international clients including: Sports Illustrated, Sundance Channel, @Radical.Media, MTV, Euro/RSCG, Apple, Canon, A&E, Speed Channel, Toyota, Ralph Lauren, Tiffany & Co, Harley-Davidson, Tommy Hilfiger, Microsoft, FUSE among others.

Life on the Cutting Edge

December 6, 2010, 03:18 PM

http://www.afi.org.au/AM/ContentManagerNet/HTMLDis...

Screen editing is often described as 'the invisible art', but according to Dr Karen Pearlman, President of the Australian Screen Editors Guild (ASE), there's nothing invisible about it. "Good editing is visible in the form of good story," she says emphatically. "When you have emotional engagement with the characters, or when you see something that's visually exciting or spectacular, then you're watching good editing. The edits aren't visible, but the results certainly are!"

'Black Swan' Blurs the Lines

December 6, 2010, 11:13 AM

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

Editor Andrew Weisblum, A.C.E., came to Black Swan with Aronofsky’s The Wrestler already on his credit list; he first met the director when he was a visual effects editor on The Fountain. In prepping for Black Swan, Weisblum and Aronofsky talked a lot about the film’s genres and its editorial style. They also watched numerous horror, psychological thriller and dance movies, mainly referencing the moments of horror or terror. "It was about how those moments were executed and which ones were a...

Editor Tim Mertens Finds the Shape of the Story

December 6, 2010, 11:06 AM

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

Disney Studios' Tangled is an irreverent and visually dazzling three-dimensional animated story of Rapunzel (Mandy Moore) and the charming thief Flynn Rider (Zachary Levi). Rapunzel's 70-feet-long golden hair has magical properties, which have led Mother Goethel to imprison the young girl in a lonely tower for her own selfish reasons. Before her 18th birthday, Rapunzel decides to escape, letting her hair down for a new life of adventure.

Hellcats Keeps Its Editors Jumping

December 6, 2010, 11:04 AM

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

"Every episode has a big production number––either a dance or cheer scene that is choreographed to a specific song," says Debby Germino about Hellcats, the new TV series she co-edits with Christopher Cooke, A.C.E., and Neil Mandelburg, A.C.E. "It’s exciting to get dailies in and become so energized watching these amazing dancers do these incredible flips and acrobatics."

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