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

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 (

Useful Tools For Editors: Beauty Box

May 12, 2010, 04:15 PM

http://www.studiodaily.com/blog/?p=3215

Can’t afford a makeup artist? Have an interview subject who’s skin is just a bit too rough after getting the footage back to edit? Then you might be in need of Beauty Box from Digital Anarchy.

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.

Avid MC to FCP for Color

May 12, 2010, 04:13 PM

http://lfhd.net/2010/05/12/avid-mc-to-fcp-for-colo...

I had today off. Because we had more footage to import (another shoot day), and the producer needed to get her bearings. So I went to the dentist (which everyone should do on a day off, I suppose...right?), and then saw Iron Man 2...

Absurdity of Pigeonholing Across Mediums

May 11, 2010, 04:12 PM

http://www.evanschiff.com/bd/articles/the-absurdit...

Since starting this blog last year I’ve mostly stayed away from writing product reviews, compression tests, opinion pieces, etc. There are more than enough editing blogs out there that do a much finer job on a more regular basis than I could ever hope to. Every once in a while, though...

Editing on the iphone II

May 11, 2010, 04:11 PM

http://provideocoalition.com/index.php/freshdv/sto...

Hand Held Hollywood has a report from NAB 2010 on the Vericorder 1st Video app for the iPhone 3GS. It’s a full-featured non-linear editor for the device with a featureset that you simply must see to believe. Watch the video below.

Editing on the Iphone

May 11, 2010, 04:10 PM

http://provideocoalition.com/index.php/ssimmons/st...

There’s another entry into the iPhone video editing app category that has just hit the iTunes app store in the last day or so. VeriCorder Technology’s 1st Video (which I previewed here thanks to HandHeld Hollywood just after NAB) aims to one up the previous king of iPhone video editors, ReelDirector, by providing a bit more functionality and moving it beyond a novelty or a toy.

Edit Fest Confirms Manhattan Editor

May 11, 2010, 04:10 PM

http://manhattaneditworkshop.blogspot.com/2010/05/...

EditFest NY confirms editor Susan Morse as a panelist for this year year's event. Some of Susan's credits include the acclaimed Woody Allen films Manhattan, Husbands and Wives, and Hannah and Her Sisters. For more information on the upcoming event, go to www.editfestny.com.

Comedy Section Fixed

May 11, 2010, 04:09 PM

https://www.aotg.com/comedy-section-fixed/

Thanks to our alert viewers who noticed that our videos in our comedy section went down. It seems Youtube's new video look has affected the embedded code. We've switched it and are back up!

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...

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