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 Look of Michael Clayton

July 12, 2010, 04:56 PM

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

Michael Clayton has been described as a thriller, but it’s more about "soul sickness," according to writer-director Tony Gilroy, about people who find themselves in exile facing moral dilemmas. As a result, his brother, editor John Gilroy, A.C.E., had to make sure the audience stayed inside the characters, while creating a subtle build-up of tension throughout. The filmmakers also created a specific look, which paid homage to movies from the 1970s, in which composition within a widescreen...

Editor Leaves His Mark on Michael Clayton

July 12, 2010, 04:55 PM

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

So what advice would you expect from a Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright father to his younger son, who will be editing the first feature film of his eldest son? "Just cover his ass," John Gilroy, A.C.E., laughs.

Conrad Buff: The Editor as Manipulator

July 12, 2010, 04:53 PM

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

Known for having cut some of cinema’s most iconic actions sequences, largely in effects-heavy films, Oscar-winning editor Conrad Buff, A.C.E., is poised to add another CGI-laden title to his impressive list of credits when Paramount Pictures releases M. Night Shyamalan’s The Last Airbender July 2. A 3-D live-action film based on Nickelodeon’s animated television series Avatar: The Last Airbender, this is the editor’s second film in collaboration with Shyamalan.

An Editing Dynasty

July 12, 2010, 04:52 PM

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

Gathered together in the same cutting room on the 20th Century Fox lot, Don Zimmerman, A.C.E., and his three sons––Danny, Dean and David––have the peculiar ability to meander in and out of one another’s thoughts when they speak. Their memories are collective, multi-faceted, complementary. The effect, made more acute by the fact that Danny and Dean are astonishingly identical twins, is rather like a single, hydra-headed Zimmerman. As they fall into what must be a familiar dialogue, one....

All in the Family

July 12, 2010, 04:51 PM

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

With the sad passing of legendary editor and former Editors Guild Vice President Dede Allen, A.C.E., in mid-April, and the subsequent simultaneous memorial tributes to her in New York and Los Angeles held a month later (see Page 12), my thoughts turn to family. Especially after reading the comments of her son, award-winning re-recording mixer Tom Fleischman, MPSE, CAS, addressing the attendees at the East Coast memorial: "As I look at you, I see my family, extended family, dear friends and...

Panelists for Edit Fest LA Announced

July 12, 2010, 03:50 PM

https://www.aotg.com/panelists-for-edit-fest-la-announced/

ACE has announced some of the editors taking part this August in Edit Fest LA.

Useful Tools for FCP Admins

July 12, 2010, 12:30 PM

http://www.studiodaily.com/blog/?p=3585

Digital Rebellion has recently released a new tool that adds addition functionality to one of their other very useful tools FCS Maintenance Pack. The new FCS Maintenance Pack Network Admin will allow a system administrator perform the tasks and functions of the maintenance pack remotely. A full rundown of the tool was posted on the Digital Rebellion site just over a week ago.

Avid Media Composer/Matrox

July 11, 2010, 03:55 PM

http://digitalproducer.digitalmedianet.com/article...

I thought for the last article I'm writing on Media Composer 5, I would do something a little different. Since Avid made the decision to support Matrox's MXO2 mini as a way for editors to monitor external video, I thought that I would do a review of it.

Kevin Monahan - speed tools in Final Cut Pro 7

July 11, 2010, 09:35 AM

http://www.macvideo.tv/editing/features/index.cfm?...

Kevin Monahan co-founded SF Cutters, which is widely regarded as being the first and longest running Final Cut Pro user group on the planet. In addition to this Kevin has worked as an editor, been employed by Apple, and is the author of "Motion Graphics and Effects in Final Cut Pro (Peachpit Press). In this demonstration Kevin shows how to effectively work with the new speed tools in Final Cut Pro 7. Inside of a 10 minute demo Kevin unlocks the secrets to making these tools work for you.

Cost of Editing Technology

July 11, 2010, 09:35 AM

http://www.macvideo.tv/blogs/index.cfm?blogid=1001...

Five years ago I set up an edit suite in a client's office. Brand new shinyG5, flat-screen monitors, FireWire deck, all state-of-the-art, top-of-the-line. This week I set up an edit suite once again, for the same client in the same office. This time it was a new shiny 8-core Nehalem, 2.26, nice large monitors, drives to install, Final Cut Pro to upgrade.

© 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.