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 World Loses a Great Editor Sally Menke

September 28, 2010, 01:50 PM

http://community.avid.com/blogs/buzz/archive/2010/...

We got some terrible news here at Avid this morning: award-winning ACE Editor Sally Menke has passed away. Sally was best known for her longtime collaboration with Director Quentin Tarantino. Her work on films like "Pulp Fiction" "Reservoir Dogs" and "Kill Bill, Volume 1 and 2" garnered her several prestigious awards and nominations including: wins in 2004 for "Editor of the Year" by The Hollywood Film Festival and "Best Editing" by the Las Vegas Film Critics Society...

Sally Menke, longtime Tarantino editor, dies at 56

September 28, 2010, 01:47 PM

http://gordonandthewhale.com/sally-menke-longtime-...

Yesterday, the editing legend was hiking with her dog, and when she never returned, police were alerted and after an extensive search, her body was found in a ravine. She was 56. While people may remember Tarantino’s filmography for other reasons, Menke’s work as longtime collaborator and editor will always be an integral part as to what made Tarantino’s first seven feature films the masterful collection of films that they truly are. She won acclaim for her Oscar-nominated...

Film Editor Sally Menke Reportedly Found Dead

September 28, 2010, 11:40 AM

http://www.thewrap.com/movies/column-post/film-edi...

Sally Menke, film editor on director Quentin Tarantino's projects, was found dead early Tuesday, police said. She was 56. Menke went hiking with her dog Monday and was discovered by searchers in Beachwood Canyon. Her locked car was found in a Griffith Park parking lot. Menke was nominated for an Academy Award earlier this year for her work editing Tarantino's "Inglorious Basterds." She was also nominated in 1995 for "Pulp Fiction." Other credits with Tarantino include "Kill Bill,"...

Sally Menke Found Dead Near Griffith Park

September 28, 2010, 11:32 AM

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2010/09/quen...

Director Quentin Tarantino's longtime film editor, who went hiking with her dog amid the extreme heat Monday, was discovered dead early Tuesday morning by searchers in Beachwood Canyon, according to law-enforcement sources. Award-winning film editor Sally Menke, 56, worked on such movies as "Pulp Fiction," "Kill Bill" and "Jackie Brown."

Adobe Powers San Jose Headquarters with Bloom

September 28, 2010, 10:52 AM

http://eon.businesswire.com/news/eon/2010092700696...

Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq:ADBE) and Bloom Energy Corporation (www.BloomEnergy.com) today announced completion of the largest commercial Bloom Energy fuel cell installation to date, designed to supply approximately one-third of the electricity required by Adobe’s downtown San Jose headquarters. "We hope to be an example to other companies considering cleaner, more affordable energy sources for their operations." A total of 12 Bloom Energy Servers – also known as Bloom boxes...

Why 2D to 3D Conversion is Good for the Industry

September 28, 2010, 10:51 AM

http://bourkepr.typepad.com/my_weblog/2010/09/irid...

2D to 3D has received a lot of bad press lately. But with the industry plowing forward with a slew of new 3D productions, I think it's time we look at the bigger picture, and how 2D to 3D conversion technology will play a bigger role than many may think.

What should Apple do with Final Cut Pro?

September 28, 2010, 09:02 AM

http://www.philiphodgetts.com/2010/09/what-should-...

Writing applications is in some ways similar to building a house. There’s usually an initial plan, often with stages to be added in future releases planned from the start. (I once asked a Digital Production BuZZ guest, around the time of FCP 4.5, if everything from their original wish list was in Final Cut Pro: response, nowhere near all!) However, over time, additions get added on; another "room" here, another one there.

Editorial Friended by The Social Network

September 27, 2010, 05:28 PM

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

Much of the buzz surrounding David Fincher's new film, The Social Network, is about the timely subject matter, since it concerns people and events behind creation of the famous Facebook social networking site. The film screened opening night of the New York Film Festival, September 24, and opens nationally October 1, through Columbia Pictures.

Review: Adobe CS5 Master Suite

September 27, 2010, 05:01 PM

http://www.cgw.com/Publications/CGW/2010/Volume-33...

In April, Adobe updated its Creative Suite 5 (CS5). Every Creative Suite update is a massive undertaking for Adobe, because every one of its core products gets updated—from the venerable Photoshop to Web design software such as Dreamweaver and Flash, to graphic design products such as Illustrator and InDesign, to video products such as After Effects and Premiere Pro. This creates a lot of new features in a lot of different packages, so this review will focus on Photoshop, After Effects...

Adobe’s CS Review Access in Premiere Pro CS5

September 27, 2010, 04:54 PM

http://www.studiodaily.com/blog/?p=4297

Well here’s something I wasn’t aware of: Adobe’s online review and approval portal CS Review supports your editing sequences for review and approval right out of Premiere Pro CS5, via the CS Live button. This video popped up the other day and is a quick rundown on exactly how the process works. Basically it’s a way to encode, upload, have people view and comment and then get those review comments downloaded right into Premiere Pro CS5....

© 2007-2024 www.aotg.com Ver. 3.0 All Content created and posted by Art of the Guillotine users Art of the Guillotine graphics, logos, designs, page headers, button icons, scripts, and other service names are the trademarks of Art of the Guillotine Inc. Use of this material outside of this site is strictly prohibited.