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

The Emotional Rhythm of Joel Cox and Gary Roach

January 19, 2009, 06:56 AM

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

French composer Maurice Ravel said, "We should always remember that sensitiveness and emotion constitute the real content of a work of art." Few words better express the filmmaking vision of iconic actor, director, producer and composer Clint Eastwood, a vision that is realized in no small part by Eastwood’s picture editors––Oscar winner Joel Cox, A.C.E., and Gary Roach. In 2008, the three partnered on a pair of deeply affecting emotional dramas––Universal’s recent Changeling, the tr...

Posting 'Naked'

January 19, 2009, 06:55 AM

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

There’s an old adage in show business that if you want to ensure success, avoid working with kids and animals. Don’t tell that to picture editor Craig Cobb and supervising sound editor Louis Bertini, MPSE, who help post one of Nickelodeon’s hit shows, The Naked Brothers Band.

Cutting Room Eps. 009 - Ken Dancyger

January 16, 2009, 12:30 PM

https://www.aotg.com/cutting-room-eps-009-ken-dancyger/

This week Gordon interviews Ken Dancyger author of The Technique of Film and Video Editing.

Dancyger on Cutting Action

January 16, 2009, 06:40 AM

http://www.artoftheguillotine.com/download_files/D...

To coincide with our Ken Dancyger interview Focal Press has given us two chapters from his book The Technique of Film and Video Editing. The first is an examination of dialogue scenes, the second on cutting action sequences. Download the action .pdf below.

Dancyger on Cutting Dialogue

January 16, 2009, 06:38 AM

http://www.artoftheguillotine.com/download_files/D...

To coincide with our Ken Dancyger interview Focal Press has given us two chapters from his book The Technique of Film and Video Editing. The first is an examination of dialogue scenes, the second on cutting action sequences. Click below for the dialogue .pdf

Darren Aronofsky Wrestles With Andrew Weisblum

December 29, 2008, 08:34 PM

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

Thanks to his role in Darren Aronofsky’s The Wrestler, Mickey Rourke’s trophy room will soon need a renovation. The awards that he’s been nominated for, or already won, are piling up, but the man who deserves maybe the most thanks is a name very few are familiar with: Andrew Weisblum. The man employed as the movie’s editor, a role that is always the sorely under-appreciated architect of strong plots and performances, had an indispensable role in constructing Rourke’s performance from.....

Marley & Me: Editing the World’s Worst Dog

December 29, 2008, 08:30 PM

http://www.editorsguild.com/v2/magazine/archives/e...

On the surface, Marley & Me (being released Christmas Day by Fox 2000 Pictures) is a wacky comedy about the world’s worst dog, but ultimately it’s a thoughtful journey through life. Based on the best-selling memoir by John Grogan, Marley & Me follows John (Owen Wilson), his wife Jenny (Jennifer Aniston) and their relationship with a rambunctious golden lab named Marley. In a story spanning 15 years, the film wrestles with such themes as marriage, children, career and mortality.

Cutting Room Eps. 008 - Andres Landau

December 23, 2008, 12:29 PM

https://www.aotg.com/cutting-room-eps-008-andres-landau/

This week Gordon interviews Andres Landau a young up and coming editor about getting started as an editor. This is a must for beginners as well or editors who have made major moves from country to country. Landau started out working in sound in his home land of Argentina. He restarted his career in Canada as a film editor.

A Final Cut Pro Editorial 'Brotherhood'

December 11, 2008, 08:13 PM

http://www.editorsguild.com/v2/magazine/archives/e...

Those of us who own personal computers and a digital video camera know how easy it is to make movies at home––plug the camera into the computer, use an inexpensive editing program like Premiere Pro, Sony Vegas, iMovie or Final Cut Pro, and easily capture the footage onto your hard drive. Most of these programs make it simple to organize the digitized clips, place them in a timeline, change their order, trim them up, add effects and titles, and output them back them to your camera or to some....

Inside the Editors' Studio Part 4

November 24, 2008, 07:38 PM

http://digitalcontentproducer.com/videos/dcptv/edi...

Inside the Editors' Studio offers insight into the real world of editing. Moderated by Harry B. Miller III, ACE, and hosted by Joe Byron and the Los Angeles Film School, this four-part series covers editing for feature films, TV shows, and documentaries.

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