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 Rough Cut

March 23, 2010, 12:23 PM

http://lfhd.net/2010/03/22/the-rough-cut/

I am currently in the "rough cut" phase of my latest show. And this, to me, is the most difficult part. This is where I need to make something out of nothing. Well, not NOTHING, as there is a lot of stuff there that you use. But this is the part of the phase that I need to look at ALL of my somethings, and cull it down and string it out and arrange it in a way to tell a good story.

The Man who "Made" Avid

March 22, 2010, 12:21 PM

http://www.macvideo.tv/editing/interviews/index.cf...

Bill Warnewr is the man who had the vision, he's the man who made this happen. In this, the first of a five part series, Bill explains the frustration he felt at the linear editing process in a tape-based world and how he, turned this frustration to find a solution to the problem. As a result the world of editing has never been the same. Where once tape-based suites and film cutting rooms dominated, now the electronic non-linear way has become the accepted process.

Psychology Study of Film Editing

March 22, 2010, 12:20 PM

http://www.joyoffilmediting.com/?p=2603

"Modern movies may be more engrossing-we get "lost" in them more readily-because the universe’s natural rhythm is driving the mind." James Cutting, Jordan DeLong and Christine Nothelfer from their paper on human attention span and film.

Murch to Deliver State of Cinema Address

March 22, 2010, 12:19 PM

http://makingof.com/blog/entry/1448/walter-murch-t...

The San Francisco Film Society announced today that acclaimed film editor and sound designer Walter Murch will deliver the annual State of Cinema Address at the 53rd San Francisco International Film Festival (April 22 - May 6) at the Sundance Kabuki Cinemas Sunday, April 25 at 4:00 pm.

We Now Have a Linkedin Group

March 22, 2010, 12:19 PM

http://www.linkedin.com/e/vgh/2885097/

Many people have asked us to create a Linkedin group. So we have created one for those interested please check it out and we hope you enjoy it.

More on the EOS FCP Plugin

March 21, 2010, 12:18 PM

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

I played around with the new Canon EOS Movie Plugin-E1 for Final Cut Pro this morning and I noticed a few other odds and ends after some discussion about the tool with folks on Twitter. Canon has a very detailed information page of their own which is helpful as well. If you haven’t downloaded yet then you can grab the plug-in here.

Comedy Editing - Adding a Laugh Track...

March 20, 2010, 12:17 PM

http://www.joyoffilmediting.com/?p=2582

A show is "laffed" after the dialogue mix or after the entire mix. The laughs start after the "laffer" wheels the Laff box in. Whoa... hold the press...That was then. Now Charley Douglass’s original machine from the ’50s, like everything else, comes in a digital format. Still, it contains titters, guffaws, snickers, and chuckles of varying lengths.

Canon FCP Plug in Released

March 20, 2010, 12:16 PM

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

We all know this fact: The Canon DSLRs (5D, 7D, 1D) use the H.264 codec for the video they shoot and wrap that into a .mov QuickTime. While Final Cut Pro does work with .movs, these H.264 versions are clunky to edit requiring much rendering when in a FCP timeline. H.264 wasn’t designed to be a robust edit format anyway so the files need to be transcoded into something more edit friendly.

Editors Lounge at NAB

March 20, 2010, 12:16 PM

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

BURBANK – The Editors' Lounge will host its Annual NAB Panel on Friday, March 26 at 6:00pm. The event will be held at Key Code Media (270 S. Flower St) and will focus on the trends that are shaping 2010 in post production, as well as on what is expected to come out of next month's NAB show in Las Vegas. (3/19/2010)

Dede Allen R.I.P.

March 19, 2010, 06:45 PM

http://www.joyoffilmediting.com/?p=2713

To my generation of editors, Dede Allen was a revered editor par excellence, a queen of the cutting room. She worked endlessly and tirelessly to breathe in the essence of the film’s meaning and make sure it got to screen with the exact number of frames exactly placed...

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