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

Coates Quotes

March 14, 2010, 12:01 PM

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

Last October, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences held several nights dedicated to the art and craft of picture editing. One of those evenings was entitled "Anne Coates: Profile of an Editing Master," which featured clips from many of her films. Following are a selection of Coates’ observations and comments on some of those films.

A Few Good Editors Enist For HBO

March 14, 2010, 12:01 PM

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

Even before Pearl Harbor was attacked, U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill had agreed on a "Europe First" strategy that placed primary emphasis on the defeat of the European Axis powers should Japan enter the war, a plan that continued even after December 7, 1941. In similar fashion, HBO is following that same strategy. Nine years after Band of Brothers’ "Easy Company" fought its way across France, the Netherlands and Germany, executive producers.....

Hollywood's Skilled Surgeon

March 14, 2010, 12:00 PM

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

Viera’s book is studded with great anecdotes about Thalberg’s participation in the editing process, as well as historic editors. There is a wonderful story about legendary MGM editor Margaret Booth’s first day at work. This was in 1919, before the formation of MGM, when Thalberg and Mayer were working together at Louis B. Mayer Productions. At this time, Mayer’s studio was at 3800 Mission Road in Los Angeles, located adjacent to William Selig’s Zoo, where Mayer had rented space from th...

Editing for 3D on ALice in Wonderland

March 13, 2010, 11:59 AM

http://www.studiodaily.com/filmandvideo/currentiss...

Working in the editorial department on Alice in Wonderland, JC Bond was the point of first contact for principal photography, assembling scenes as quickly as director Tim Burton could shoot them. He was also the gatekeeper for the film's extensive visual-effects content, which he received and analyzed before it was cut into the movie. Working on a team led by film editor Chris Lebenzon, ACE, Bond made sure thousands of pieces of content fell into place as expected in the editorial pipeline...

Questions With Film Editor Bobbie O'Steen

March 12, 2010, 11:58 AM

http://writeononline.com/2010/03/12/author-qa-film...

Write On! speaks with film editor, screenwriter, and author Bobbie O’Steen—The Invisible Cut: How Editors Make Movie Magic. O’Steen discusses her book-writing process, the art of storytelling, the importance of following your passion, and more. O’Steen is a regular contributor to Moviemaker Magazine, MovieGeeksUnited, and EditFest LA and EditFest New York, and conducts ongoing events with well-known film editors with the intent of educating filmmakers and the film going public about...

Friends of Oscar: Top Editors of 09' Discuss Art

March 12, 2010, 11:57 AM

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

On Saturday morning, March 6, the eve of the Oscars, the American Cinema Editors (ACE) held its tenth annual Invisible Art Visible/Artists Seminar with the Academy Award-nominated picture editors to a full house at the Egyptian Theatre in Hollywood.

Collaborations: Underbelly Shoot to Screen

March 12, 2010, 11:57 AM

https://www.aotg.com/collaborations-underbelly-shoot-to-screen/

The ASE presents the first event in the Collaboration Series, shedding light on the mysterious world of post-production.Underbelly is one of the most successful television dramas made in Australia.

Simple Motion Effects

March 12, 2010, 11:56 AM

http://blogs.nppa.org/editfoundry/2010/03/11/simpl...

A motion effect changes the size, shape, opacity, duration, position of your video, image, text or graphic in your projects. Motions effects are relatively easy in most Non-Linear Editors. I’m not going to discuss the how of motion effects. Instead I’m going to focus on why I did certain motion effects in this story. Our story for this post is We haven’t heard that word in forever on my YouTube site.

Shakespeare and Grocery Lists

March 12, 2010, 11:55 AM

http://editmentor.wordpress.com/2007/12/21/art-and...

I was trolling through the Avid L-2 list and saw the below thoughts from guanacaa58: "I think editing is directly analogous to writing. Here’s a couple of lines of writing that I consider art..."

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