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

How to cut tv promos and trailers? If so, can you

May 20, 2015, 12:12 PM

http://monicaedits.tumblr.com/post/119460224309

In a nutshell, they need to tease, have energy and tell a story in a short amount of time. The best way to get a sense is starting watching lots of trailers and then break them down into what went into them. What works for you? What doesn’t?   There is a Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy Teaser Trailer that breaks down how to cut a trailer. It’s clever and hilarious. Give that a watch.

How did you get into editing, professionally?

May 20, 2015, 12:11 PM

http://monicaedits.tumblr.com/post/119460046764

That’s a long story. I go into it on the last podcast that I was interviewed for called All Things Post. It’s episode 30. It’s on stitcher and iTunes. http://www.allthingspost.net

Editor lunch ala Steve Jobs

May 20, 2015, 12:11 PM

http://www.thepoweredit.com/editor-lunch-ala-steve...

I eat the same take-out lunch every weekday when I’m editing. Come lunch hour, I pick up the phone and order what everyone at Sharky’s Woodfired Mexican Grill knows as The Usual: a half-sized Power Plate with chicken and a double serving of grilled vegetables. Oh, Power Plate. How I love thee. Some folks say, […]

2015 HPA Awards Call for Entries

May 20, 2015, 12:10 PM

http://www.awn.com/news/2015-hpa-awards-issues-cal...

Hollywood, CA -- The Hollywood Professional Alliance has announced its Call for Entries is now open for the 2015 HPA Awards Creative Categories. The HPA Awards will take place on the evening of November 12, 2015 at the Skirball Cultural Center in Los Angeles, CA.

Editor Karen Kourtessis joins Union

May 20, 2015, 09:36 AM

http://www.postmagazine.com/Press-Center/Daily-New...

NEW YORK — Editor Karen Kourtessis has joined Union (www.unioneditorial.com), which has locations in Santa Monica, Manhattan, Austin and London. Her commercial work includes projects for Ikea, Olay, Android, Google and Gillette. She also edited the 2:20 HelloFlo Faked It video, which is the second in a funny series of spots and has garnering more than 30 million views on YouTube.

We’re getting used to thin screens, but this is

May 20, 2015, 09:36 AM

http://www.redsharknews.com/technology/item/2601-w...

At a media event earlier this week LG Display showed off a brand new 55in OLED panel that you can literally stick on and peel off the wall via a magnetic pad. LG DisplayOLEDFlat screen

Congratulations on the CCE members nominated for a

May 20, 2015, 09:36 AM

http://www.cceditors.ca/congratulations-on-the-cce...

Best Picture Editing in a Music, Comedy or Variety Program or Series Charles Robichaud, CCE – Package Deal, The Imperfect Storm   Best Picture Editing in a Youth or Children’s Program or Series Lisa Robison, CCE – Pants on Fire   Best Picture Editing in a Dramatic Series Mike Banas, CCE – Continuum, A Minute Changes Everything Lisa Binkley, CCE – Motive, A Bullet for Joey Lisa Binkley, CCE – Motive, Bad Blonde Gordon Rempel, CCE – Strange Empire, End Days   Best Picture Edit...

Stop the Presses! A Woman Edits an Action Film

May 20, 2015, 04:55 AM

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/margaret-gardiner/ma...

"Filmmaking is not for the faint-hearted," asserts South African-born film editor Margaret Sixel. The mother of two boys, Buda (19), and Tige (15), is one of a growing number of women editing the male domain of action films. Mad Max: Fury Road is the fourth in the franchise that began back in 1979, and made Mel Gibson a star. But this isn't your father's Mad Max...

Vimeo Video School publishes 17 Final Cut Pro X tu

May 20, 2015, 04:54 AM

http://www.fcp.co/final-cut-pro/tutorials/1669-vim...

We were very pleased to find an email from Vimeo this morning telling us they have published a range of editing tutorials. Even more pleased to find out 17 were dedicated to FCPX!

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