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-PRODUCTION HIGHLIGHTED AT TECH EXPO

December 1, 2012, 06:26 PM

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

In early November, Createasphere staged its Entertainment Technology Expo at the Burbank Marriott. Over 75 production and post-production vendors displayed their wares in the main Exhibition Hall, while a handful of companies with larger production equipment found room outside under cloudy skies in Gear Alley. The Expo featured discussion panels, hands-on demonstrations and workshops, and industry mixers throughout its two-day run.

UNION MADE

December 1, 2012, 06:26 PM

https://www.editorsguild.com/magazine.cfm?ArticleI...

I remember sitting in the theatre watching Ingmar Bergman’s Wild Strawberries and being blown away by the visual metaphors in this movie. His opening dream sequence — the clock with no hands, the coffin spilling out of the hearse — captured my imagination.

#union#film editing
75th Anniversary Gala

December 1, 2012, 06:25 PM

https://www.editorsguild.com/magazine.cfm?ArticleI...

The Motion Picture Editors Guild held a gala reception to mark its 75th Anniversary on Saturday, October 6, at the landmark Millennium Biltmore Hotel in downtown Los Angeles. The event was attended by over 750 Guild members, retirees, Guild staff and guests, many of them in vintage dress to commemorate the historical aspect of the anniversary.

#mpeg#editor#history
How Post Practitioners Received Recognition

December 1, 2012, 06:24 PM

https://www.editorsguild.com/magazine.cfm?ArticleI...

In his study of silent films, The Parade's Gone By…, author Kevin Brownlow described editing as "the hidden power."

#editing#film#history#hollywood#1930's
An Overview of Hollywood Editing in the 1930's

December 1, 2012, 06:22 PM

https://www.editorsguild.com/magazine.cfm?ArticleI...

As soon as the MAY-JUN 12 issue of CineMontage — featuring "The 75 Best Edited Films" as selected by Editors Guild members — arrived in mailboxes, readers’ comments immediately ensued: Why was (insert title of your favorite film here) not included? Did Rope actually make the list, or is that a joke? Was it really possible that Citizen Kane was not number one? But the overwhelming question, from a curious film scholar's point of view: Why were there no films chosen from the 1930s — the on...

#editing#film#history#hollywood#1930's
Creating a More Immersive Experience

December 1, 2012, 06:21 PM

https://www.editorsguild.com/magazine.cfm?ArticleI...

A project so reliant on the most updated, state-of-the-art filmmaking technology that it would have been inconceivable — let alone impossible to realize — even just few years ago, Life of Pi presented director Ang Lee and his editor, Tim Squyres, A.C.E., with many challenges in post-production to get this film made. Squyres discussed them with CineMontage.

#ace#editing#3d#tim squyres#life of pi#film editor
The Editor as Eclecticist

December 1, 2012, 06:20 PM

https://www.editorsguild.com/magazine.cfm?ArticleI...

The charmed career of Tim Squyres, A.C.E., has evidenced one of the most enduring editor-director partnerships. Beginning with director Ang Lee’s first feature film, Pushing Hands in 1992, Squyres has collaborated with Lee on the vast majority of his films since, up to and including the new Life of Pi (2012), a three-dimensional, technologically advanced fantasy about a shipwrecked teenager stranded on a lifeboat with a Bengal tiger. An early cut of the film opened the 2012 New York Film Festi...

#ace#editing#tim squyres#life of pi#film editor
Action-Oriented Editor Bonds with 007

December 1, 2012, 06:17 PM

https://www.editorsguild.com/magazine.cfm?ArticleI...

Happy 50th anniversary, James Bond; it's time for your existential crisis. That’s what the 23rd Bond film, Skyfall, which opens November 9 through Columbia Pictures, is all about: 007 taking a fall (he’s accidentally shot in the pre-credit sequence and presumed dead) and enduring his deadliest mission yet.

#editor#film editor#skyfall#bond#action
Apple expands Final Cut Pro X

December 1, 2012, 04:41 PM

http://digitalfilms.wordpress.com/2012/12/01/apple...

On the same day Apple launched the iPad mini, the fourth generation iPad, a refresh of the iMac line and the addition of a 13" MacBook Pro with Retina display, Apple also quietly released the 10.0.6 version of Final Cut Pro X. By the end of the day, the App Store lit up and the...

#fcpx#final cut pro x#apple#ipad#app#refreshed
Backup Day: December 2012

December 1, 2012, 04:40 PM

http://www.scottsimmons.tv/blog/2012/12/01/backup-...

It's the last backup day of 2012... so backup well, backup long.

#2012#backup#scott simmons#december

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