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

Eat Pray Love, cut on FCP

August 18, 2010, 12:01 PM

http://www.macvideo.tv/news/index.cfm?olo=email&ne...

Eat Pray Love, a new Columbia Pictures feature film based on the Elizabeth Gilbert novel of the same title and starring Julia Roberts, was edited entirely in Final Cut Pro. Apple has posted a page detailing the editing team's immense task of turning 70 hours of footage shot in four different countries into a two hour film--all on a tight time-frame.

Editors Discuss Their Craft at EditFest LA

August 18, 2010, 09:57 AM

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

The American Cinema Editors’ (ACE) third annual EditFest LA took place the first weekend of August at Universal Studios. It was a veritable feast of editing talk. The five panel discussions covered a lot of ground––from breaking into the business and making the transition from assistant to editor, to analyzing scenes and talking shop. The opening panel, Welcome to EditFest, moderated by the organization’s president, Randy Roberts, A.C.E., highlighted just how much the field of editing ha...

The Comedy of Cancer

August 18, 2010, 09:56 AM

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

"It’s a comedy about cancer, so there will of course be dramatic undertones to a lot of the material," says David Dworetzky one of three editors on The Big C, which premiered on Showtime on August 16. "But we have to keep in mind that we’re a comedy. It’s easier to forget than one would think." The Big C is a comedy about a woman (Laura Linney) with cancer who resolves to live life to the fullest. However, she doesn’t tell anyone she’s sick, so her family and friends are confused by...

Looking for Mr. Goodeditor

August 18, 2010, 09:55 AM

http://normanhollyn.com/2010/08/16/looking-for-mr-...

Note that the award is called "Best Film Editing" not "Best Film Editor." That’s a crucial difference for me. Editing is truly collaborative, so it’s not really possible to say who made the editorial decisions that result in the film that we see. The editor/s accept this award as representatives for the film’s editing, but there is...

Editing Eat, Pray, Love

August 17, 2010, 11:58 AM

http://www.postmagazine.com/ME2/dirmod.asp?sid=&nm...

The movie, like the book, follows Gilbert from New York to Italy, where she indulges her senses; to India, where she explores her spirituality; and to Bali, where she finds love and the balance she has been seeking. But punching that ticket cinematically was a daunting challenge for director Ryan Murphy and producer Dede Gardner. And logistics were easily their biggest challenge. To faithfully translate Gilbert’s journey from page to screen, the filmmakers lobbied to shoot the movie entirely.....

Cutting Reality Part 2

August 16, 2010, 03:48 PM

http://www.joyoffilmediting.com/?p=2977

Going into the interview with Adam I was aware that editors of reality shows often are under the gun to plow through tons of crap, er, footage, to pluck out the proverbial pony. Over the course of lunch he opened my eyes to a couple of aspects that I hadn’t thought of.

Bill Warner, Walter Murch multi-part stories

August 15, 2010, 10:57 AM

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

There’s a couple of really good multi-part interviews that have been airing incrementally around the Internet that I wanted to point to. If you haven’t been following them then you’re in for a real treat as you catch up. Hollywood Reinvented is currently in part 5 of an interview with Bill Warner, the man who created Avid. Flickering Myth is taking an extended look at the career of Walter Murch.

The Editor's Guild (Pt 2 The Double-Edged Swo

August 14, 2010, 07:58 PM

http://robgwilson.com/2010/08/14/the-editors-guild...

Are you curious about the union? This blog is a continuation of my previous entry on how you get into the Motion Picture Editors Guild. I thought it would be a good idea to provide a little insight into getting into the union. What I didn’t realize is that it would devolve into an entire diatribe about the state of the Editors Guild in the larger Hollywood perspective. So I packed my first entry with information, and saved the rant for here.

Editor Sally Menke Talks Tarantino, Cannes Cuts

August 14, 2010, 12:06 PM

http://www.movieline.com/2009/11/sally-menke.php

There’s one woman in the world who understands Quentin Tarantino better than anybody, and that’s Sally Menke. Since her work on Reservoir Dogs, Menke has cut every single one of Tarantino’s films, and for the last decade, she’s eschewed almost all other jobs to devote herself solely to the genre-blending auteur. This Sunday, Menke will be receiving the Lifetime Achievement honor at the Hamilton Behind the Camera Awards, and as Inglourious Basterds begins its transformation from unexpecte...

'Basterds' Editor Sally Menke Talks Dire

August 14, 2010, 12:05 PM

http://www.cinematical.com/2010/03/01/basterds-edi...

Last week Quentin Tarantino hosted a below-the-line panel in Los Angeles for the Oscar-nominated members of his Inglourious Basterds crew, including director of photography Robert Richardson, visual effects designer John Dykstra and editor Sally Menke. Following the panel, Cinematical was lucky enough to catch up with Menke via telephone to ask a few additional questions. In addition to discussing the process of putting together Basterds, Menke mused about the necessity for film language in...

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