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

Guillotine Lowers Shop Prices

November 2, 2008, 06:39 PM

http://www.cafepress.com/thefilmshop

We've lowered the prices at our Guillotine Film Shop. Don't forget to take a look for Xmas gifts.

Cutting Room Eps. 005 - Christopher Nelson

November 1, 2008, 12:26 PM

https://www.aotg.com/cutting-room-eps-005-christopher-nelson/

This week I interveiw Christopher Nelson. Christopher is the editor of such TV shows as LOST, The West Wing and Six Feet Under. He was a part of the Television Editing Panel at Edit Fest during the summer and took the time to speak to The Cutting Room in Early October.

Eric Poydar (the Editor) Meets Larry (the Actor)

October 30, 2008, 06:36 PM

http://www.moviemaker.com/editing/article/eric_poy...

Archival footage, scenes differing in aspect ratio, a movie that tiptoes the line between documentary and fiction; for even the most established editor, these things could become a real headache in the cutting room. But for Eric Poydar, writer-director-editor of the faux-documentary Larry (the Actor), the challenge of seamlessly interweaving different forms of footage into a present day narrative about Larry (Lionel Mark Smith), an actor on the verge of giving up his livelihood, was met with...

Post Production in the field

October 29, 2008, 06:34 PM

http://www.artoftheguillotine.com/images/postonthe...

This image was submitted by a reader. As editors are brought on earlier and earlier is this our future?

Editor David Michael Maurer has Audiences Shriekin

October 28, 2008, 06:33 PM

http://www.moviemaker.com/editing/article/david_mi...

A talented actor and an imaginative director are only part of what makes a horror movie so terrifying. Where would scary flicks be without the clever cuts and camera angles that make us jump in our seats?

Avid to Sell PCTV

October 27, 2008, 06:32 PM

http://www.avid.com/US/press-room/PCTV-Sold-Hauppa...

AVID has announced the sale of its Pinnacle PCTV product line to Hauppauge Digital. The sale should close before 2008 ends. They have not announced the financial terms yet.

Cutting Room Eps. 004 - Dan Lebental

October 25, 2008, 12:24 PM

https://www.aotg.com/cutting-room-eps-004-dan-lebental/

This week I interveiw Dan Lebental. Dan is the editor of Iron Man, Elf, From Hell and much more! He was a part of the Effects Editing Panel at Edit Fest this summer and was recently nominated by the HPA for his work on Iron Man.

SMPTE Set to Restandardize Time Code

October 24, 2008, 06:29 PM

http://www.studiodaily.com/filmandvideo/currentiss...

It may be hard for anyone who works professionally with video to imagine it, but time code as we know it is about to change. Recognizing that innovations in digital acquisition and post have rendered the nearly 40-year-old approach to video time code obsolete, the process for defining a 21st-century standard for time code is well underway in SMPTE. That doesn't mean it's too late to have some say in the process — but you'd better hurry. A good place to start is the upcoming SMPTE Annual...

Robert Wise AFI Bio

October 23, 2008, 06:28 PM

http://www.afi.com/wise/robert_wise.html

His dilligence and creativity brought him to the next step of his career at RKO: assistant editor. Wise built on his knowledge of film employed as an assistant editor on the Fred Astaire-Ginger Rogers movie, CAREFREE (1938). Then, with William Hamilton and Henry Berman as his editing guides, Wise worked on Garson Kanin's BACHELOR MOTHER (1939;) the critically acclaimed and popular HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME, (1939); and Mark Sandrich's THE STORY OF VERNON AND IRENE CASTLE (1939).

Poll Updated

October 23, 2008, 06:26 PM

http://www.artoftheguillotine.com/polls.html

The submissions keep coming in. We've added four more films to our list of greatest films ever edited.

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