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

VLC Editing Software

December 30, 2009, 06:08 AM

http://www.vlmc.org/

VLC is a cross-platform media player that can handle all sorts of audio and video files. It's open source, free, and available for Mac, Linux, and Windows, which makes it all sorts of awesome. There's even a portable version that you can run from a USB flash drive. And that's why it's pretty exciting that the some of the folks who brought us VLC are now working on a cross-platform video editor called VideoLAN Movie Creator, or VLMC.

Edit This! Chris Nelson on Cutting Lost and Mad Me

December 30, 2009, 06:07 AM

http://www.postmagazine.com/Publications/Post-Maga...

Christopher Nelson, ACE, has what many would consider a dream job. During the summer he's editing AMC's Emmy Award-winning Mad Men, and in the winter he turns his attention to the phenomenon known at ABC's Lost — he is currently cutting the last season of the show.

FCP Supermeet to offer Free Educational Workshops

December 29, 2009, 06:06 AM

http://www.macvideo.tv/editing/news/index.cfm?RSS&...

Final Cut Studio, Adobe and Avid editors and digital filmmakers from around the world will gather together for the Ninth Annual San Francisco SuperMeet, to be held on Friday, February 5, 2010 at the UCSF Mission Bay Conference Center in San Francisco, CA.

Menke Talks Tarantino, Cannes and Kill Bill 3

December 29, 2009, 06:05 AM

http://www.movieline.com/2009/11/sally-menke.php

There’s one woman in the world who understands Quentin Tarantino better than anybody, and that’s Sally Menke. Since her work on Reservoir Dogs, Menke has cut every single one of Tarantino’s films, and for the last decade, she’s eschewed almost all other jobs to devote herself solely to the genre-blending auteur. This Sunday, Menke will be receiving the Lifetime Achievement honor at the Hamilton Behind the Camera Awards, and as Inglourious Basterds begins its transformation from unexpecte...

Editing in India with Marthand K. Venkatesh

December 28, 2009, 06:05 AM

http://www.idlebrain.com/celeb/interview/marthandk...

There is a saying that a film is made on two tables. One is story table and the other is editing table. It is left to the editor to change the fortune of the film with fine editing. Marthand K Venkatesh is an ace film editor in Telugu film industry today. 70% of the film he edited went on to become the blockbusters. Idlebrain.com has met up with him and a long personal as well as technical interview on film editing. Here are the excerpts...

Interview with Ken Swallows

December 28, 2009, 06:04 AM

http://archive.sensesofcinema.com/contents/01/14/s...

Ken Sallows is one of Australia's most noted editors. His career started in the 1970s working at Crawford Productions on legendary TV shows like Homicide, Bluey, and The Sullivans. He moved into the film world as an assistant editor on Fred Schepsi's The Chant of Jimmy Blacksmith (1978). His break as a feature editor came with Malcolm (Nadia Tass, 1986). Since then he has worked on some of Australia's most critically acclaimed films including Celia (Ann Turner, 1989), Proof (Jocelyn Moorhouse...

Writing a SCript with Editing in Mind

December 28, 2009, 06:04 AM

http://www.joyoffilmediting.com/?p=2215

The Story Department, a Sydney, Australia based website founded by OZZYWOOD Films producer and Story Analyst Karel Segers, requested my article on screenwriting for editing. They improved my article with a few astute edits and illustrations. Here’s the lead paragraph...

Mixing Formats in the Edit

December 27, 2009, 06:03 AM

http://digitalfilms.wordpress.com/2009/12/27/mixin...

The sheer mix and volume of formats to deal with today can be mind-boggling. Videotape player/recorders – formerly a common denominator – are a vanishing breed. Post facilities still own and use VTRs, but operations at the local market level, especially in broadcast, are becoming increasingly tapeless.

Interview with Skip Spiro

December 27, 2009, 06:02 AM

https://www.editorsguild.com/skipspiro.cfm?

The Editors Guild interview with Skip Spiro is available. His work includes Notes From the New World, Brothers in Blood and Go For Broke.

Avid Basics for FCP Users

December 26, 2009, 06:01 AM

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

Continuing on an article in the last Pro Video Coalition newsletter, The Basics of Avid Media Composer for a Final Cut Pro Editor, this article will look at a number of other functions and how they differ from Final Cut Pro to Media Composer. One of the main reasons why I’m writing these articles is that Avid offers a free, full-featured demo of Avid Media Composer 4 available for download. When I wrote the first piece that demo was only for 14 days.

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