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

SF Cutters Event October 27, 2010

October 20, 2010, 08:48 PM

http://sfcuttersoct27.eventbrite.com/

Larry Jordan for BorisFX, SF Cutters: Paul Baker w/ PBS "Yellowstone" Doc - Prod to Post & Chris Fenwick - Design an Affordable and Effective Storage System: with a bit of Costume Fun!

Conduit Suite 2.0 for Macintosh

October 20, 2010, 08:39 PM

http://www.dvgarage.com/conduit-2

The Conduit Suite for Macintosh... one application and four plug-ins in one. It's simple. With Conduit Suite 2.0 you can--Composite and analyze live video input on set --Use nodal techniques in Photoshop, After Effects and, of course, use nodal compositing in Final Cut Pro and Motion.

My Post House: Sunrise Pictures

October 20, 2010, 08:37 PM

http://digitalcontentproducer.com/desktoppost/dept...

Taylor Warren is the owner of Sunrise Pictures, a Telly Award-winning post house based in Middletown, Conn. He has been in the film industry for 19 years, and has worked on everything from feature films and documentaries to corporate projects.

Trick or Treat: A comic look at editing reality TV

October 20, 2010, 08:36 PM

http://www.joyoffilmediting.com/?p=3079

This fun web video tells a good story and makes good use of VO while talking editing reality. Still can’t say "editing reality" without thinking of editing my own life. What would you edit if you could edit your life reality?

Back to the Mac: Implications for Final Cut Pro

October 20, 2010, 04:00 PM

http://www.philiphodgetts.com/2010/10/final-cut-pr...

There were a lot of features I saw in OS X Lion and particularly in iMovie 11, that I would love to see inside Final Cut Pro. Things like QuickView I already mentioned in my "What should Apple do with Final Cut Pro" article from September.

More on the Smart Tool

October 20, 2010, 12:37 PM

http://splicehere.org/2010/10/20/more-on-the-smart...

Avid’s new Smart Tool promises a more intuitive, drag-and-drop approach to timeline editing and is designed to compete head-on with Final Cut and Premiere. But for many long-time Avid editors, the first response is, "how do I turn it off?"

Assembly Required: A Walter Murch Profile PT 1

October 20, 2010, 11:50 AM

http://flickeringmyth.blogspot.com/2010/07/assembl...

Moving onto freelance editing, Murch briefly worked for Dove Films, a commercial production company owned by cameramen Cal Bernstein and Haskell Wexler (Bound for Glory). "Then in December of 1968, about a year and a half after I’d left film school, I got a call from George Lucas [Star Wars]. He and Francis Coppola [The Godfather] had met. It turned out they had rented Carl Bernstein’s equipment to shoot a film, The Rain People [1969]. Francis needed somebody to do the final sound, and asked...

Assembly Required: A Walter Murch Profile PT 2

October 20, 2010, 11:47 AM

http://flickeringmyth.blogspot.com/2010/07/assembl...

"I try to choose projects that dovetail my own interests," remarked New York-native Walter Murch. "That’s a significant part of the process – where you are really casting yourself, in much the same way actors cast themselves for a role. In an ideal situation, such as Vanessa Redgrave in Julia, an actor chooses a part that represents an emotional truth to her as an individual, which pushes her somewhere she has not gone before." Sharing the same name as his painter father, the sound designer....

Assembly Required: A Walter Murch Profile PT 3

October 20, 2010, 11:46 AM

http://flickeringmyth.blogspot.com/2010/08/assembl...

"I was interested to go back and look at the two films I edited, The Conversation [1974] and Julia [1977], which I had done "mechanically" – physically cutting the film itself," mused the multi-talented Walter Murch. "I made the transition to "electronic," – and started working on the Avid in 1995, I was curious to see if there was any difference between my mechanical and electronic styles. There wasn’t – in fact I was struck on how immediate the earlier films seemed. I would make the sa...

Assembly Required: A Walter Murch Profile PT 4

October 20, 2010, 11:44 AM

http://flickeringmyth.blogspot.com/2010/08/assembl...

"It has become part of the culture," observed Walter Murch on the Vietnam War saga starring Martin Sheen (Badlands). "As much as a work affects the culture, the culture mysteriously affects the work. Apocalypse Now, in the year 2000, is a very different thing from the physically exact-same Apocalypse Now in the second before it was released in 1979." The New Yorker revisited the movie as a film editor and re-recording mixer at the behest of American filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola who wanted...

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