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

Michael Barenbaum Interview at SXSW

October 9, 2010, 12:28 PM

https://www.aotg.com/michael-barenbaum-interview-at-sxsw/

Paul Terry Walhus of AustinCast.com interviews Michael Barenbaum. Michael is a Film Editor, his latest movie is the Marconi Brothers about two rug sales men. Shot on 35 mm film and edited on Final Cut Pro. Debuted at SXSW 20008.

Guy Maddin talks about his editing style

October 9, 2010, 12:13 PM

https://www.aotg.com/guy-maddin-talks-about-his-editing-style/

This is a clip from the Media Funhouse interview of Guy Maddin, which took place in May 2007 during the NYC run of "Brand Upon the Brain!" as a live theatrical experience (the film was shown at the Village East for one week's worth of screenings with a live mini-orchestra, Foley artists, a castrato singer, and a live celebrity narrator). The mention of Lou Reed refers to Reed's having narrated the film the night before this interview was shot. Maddin offers here his reflection on his work...

Why isn't satisfying customers enough?

October 8, 2010, 08:01 PM

http://www.philiphodgetts.com/2010/10/why-isnt-sat...

This week I had an unplanned trip to Boston to fill in at the Boston FCP User Group meeting for Rich Harrington who'd suffered a back problem and wasn't able to travel. I travelled American Airlines instead of my normal choice, JetBlue.

Master Multicamera Techniques is a must have book

October 8, 2010, 03:49 PM

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

Quite a few months ago I had a long conversation with editor Mitch Jacobson about multicam editing. The point of this conversation was to, hopefully, provide some good information on multicam editing for what was then his upcoming book about the topic. That book has finally gone into print and I picked up a copy not long ago and began reading it. Besides the much appreciated contributing writer...

Demonstrating Continuity with V for Vendetta

October 8, 2010, 11:44 AM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8xauSCz1mEk

Short Documentary on Continuity Editing in the film V for Vendetta.

Cutting Room Episode 42 Andrew Weisblum pt. 3

October 7, 2010, 02:45 PM

https://www.aotg.com/cutting-room-episode-42-andrew-weisblum-pt-3/

This week Gordon interviews Andrew Weisblum the Wrestler. Andrew's latest work, Black Swan, can be seen in theatres now.

All the news that’s fit to edit

October 6, 2010, 02:50 PM

http://www.joyoffilmediting.com/?p=3063

News editors are part of NABET (National Association of Broadcast Employees and Technicians). The union has been fighting a losing war with the networks and there have been many changes for the worse. The editor used to choose the footage, now the writer picks the clips and indicates them on the script. The upshot? Many editors (and others) have broadened their scope and become hyphenates. Common hyphenate jobs are: photographer-editor a.k.a....

The Perfect Match Event

October 6, 2010, 10:12 AM

http://www.screeneditors.com/news_&_events/347.htm

ozDocs came through with an excellent session on the relationship between editors and the rest of the creative team, in which the cutters came from the shadows with a few hard-won home truths. Tina Kaufman was enchanted. We all know the scene. The prizewinning director at the awards night gratefully thanks the editor and the wonderful partnership they have formed in the cutting room to craft the winning documentary. And perhaps it has happened this way; after all, it has often been said that...

Heliocentric Pantheon: An Interview with Murch

October 5, 2010, 11:32 AM

http://bldgblog.blogspot.com/2007/04/heliocentric-...

As it happens, Murch's interests go far beyond the reach of cinema, encompassing architecture, astronomy, music theory, and mathematics – among an almost impossibly broad range of other subjects. When a friend of mine casually mentioned that Walter had "discovered" something about the Pantheon, in Rome, and that this discovery had something to do with Nicolaus Copernicus and the origins of heliocentrism in Western astronomy, I was determined to write about it for BLDGBLOG. Within only a few...

Chairman of the Edit: Walter Murch

October 4, 2010, 04:41 PM

http://cinesourcemagazine.com/index.php?/site/comm...

Much-lauded as a sound designer, film editor, and visionary, as well as inventor, Murch is a renaissance man and jack-of-all trades, a classicist as well as a classy guy. Polite and precise, he is encyclopedically acquainted with the arts, in part because he grew up in Manhattan, son of Walter Murch, a painter of mysterious textures and romantic atmospheres, who remains a cult figure in the New York art scene.

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