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

Editor Brian Kates Goes Boating

January 31, 2010, 08:27 AM

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

Showcasing films at the Sundance Film Festival is becoming par for the course for veteran editor Brian Kates. In his eighth trip to Park City for the 2010 fest, Kates saw his latest project Jack Goes Boating—a film from first-time director and Academy Award-winning actor Philip Seymour Hoffman—get its world premiere.

Trailer: Trash or Treasure Part 2

January 30, 2010, 08:27 AM

http://www.joyoffilmediting.com/?p=2384

Most of us have contradictory attitude toward trailers. Trailers are a bonus - we get to see a part of another film - for the price of seeing the movie we just paid for. They help us get in the mood for the feature. We can use them to reject a movie and save ourselves time and money. They can also be refreshers, helping us relive and remember a movie.

Episode 21

January 29, 2010, 08:26 AM

http://lfhd.net/2010/01/29/the-edit-bay-episode-21...

The twenty-first episode of THE EDIT BAY is ready for your listening pleasure. Not everyone has the talent to be the next big director...so go where your talent lies.

Spice up Titles with Video

January 28, 2010, 08:22 AM

http://avidscreencast.com/2010/01/14-spice-up-titl...

Sometimes the good, old title with static text just doesn’t cut it. In this episode, we’ll make the text be another layer of video.

The Sopranos: Killer Cuts

January 28, 2010, 08:21 AM

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

HBO's The Sopranos has unnerved and delighted audiences with engrossing tales of dysfunctional wiseguys and their codependent families. From season one, veteran A.C.E. editors, Sidney Wolinsky, Conrad Gonzalez and William Stich, have been cutting this controversial drama. After the current fourth season - which is shooting on 35mm but is cablecast in HD - is finished they will have collectively cut 52 episodes of The Sopranos from over five million feet of footage.

Trailers: Trash or Treasure

January 27, 2010, 08:20 AM

http://www.joyoffilmediting.com/?p=2310

As a digital editing systems trainer in the 90s and 00s, I enjoyed training and demoing for all types of editors. For a session, day, or week I got to inhabit their worlds and see firsthand their unique challenges, methods, and triumphs. None surprised me more than a veteran trailer editor. So this post and the next will be devoted to the joys of trailer editing and the works of the always uncredited trailer editors.

Putting Images Together

January 27, 2010, 08:18 AM

http://blogs.nppa.org/editfoundry/2010/01/26/putti...

The first reason for editing was longer films. The next idea was lets put these images together and tell a story. You’re a storyteller. It doesn’t matter if you are editing a news package, a documentary, a film or an online feature using stills, It’s all storytelling. Putting the images together to try and tell a story is editing. It’s the beginning of editing, it’s also the middle and the end of editing. Every edit should be made for the story.

Cutting Room Eps. 024 - Steven Rosenblum Pt. 2

January 26, 2010, 12:48 PM

https://www.aotg.com/cutting-room-eps-024-steven-rosenblum-pt-2/

Here's part two of my interview with Steven Rosenblum. In this part we focus on 3D editing. The video we mention is the youtube link below look to the 7:35 mark for the yoyo part.

Managing Stock Footage on a Doc

January 23, 2010, 08:14 AM

http://lfhd.net/2010/01/22/managing-stock-footage/

When editing a documentary you very often find yourself using stock footage or photos. And in case you didn’t know it, stock footage and photos cost money to license for use in your projects. Sometimes they are inexpensive(say $5/second) and sometimes they are exorbitant ($60/sec with a 10 second minimum). Because you have a limited budget on your documentaries, it is up to the editor to keep track of how much stock footage they are using, and to use it responsibly...

Bill Pankow on Editing

January 21, 2010, 08:10 AM

https://www.aotg.com/bill-pankow-on-editing/

Bill Pankow talks about editing at the Manhattan Edit Workshop. Bill's Work includes The Untouchables, Assault on Precinct 13 and The Black Dahlia.

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