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ous about OMF functionality because that was always something I hoped Premiere would do, but I haven’t re- ally been able to test that. I like to be able to mix sound properly in the same platform, if possible.” POST: These days, is most of your time spent acting? COPLEY: “That is sort of my pri- mary job now, along with develop- ment and editing and shooting. I even use my post and production skills to- ward that job.” POST:Can you explain? COPLEY: “I am playing Murdoch in The A-Team film, and I got that part by shooting some stuff in my hotel room and editing together a series of scenes that I called,‘Things that Could in me. I love editing. I love the process, as painful as it could be. It’s such a useful tool to have, even as an actor.” POST: Is there anything out there in post that interests you at the moment? COPLEY: “I don’t keep up with the trends in the same way that I used to when I had a post company. What is interesting to me now is to see what is going to happen with the integration [of tools].” POST: What do you think about 3D stereo films? COPLEY: “I am so glad that 3D is happening, and I am so glad that James Cameron has kind of forced it to happen with Avatar, just visually. I am always for pushing the boundary sound wise and visually.To try to do District 9was Copely’s first feature film role. Happen to Murdoch in His Hotel Room.’ I edited it on a plane with an old version of CS3 that I had. I sent it to the director [Joe Carnahan], and I got the role.” POST: And now you have Creative Suite 5 at your disposal? COPLEY: “Yes. Because I come from a filmmaker background, I am al- ways doing things like that. One of the cool things about CS5 is that it’s fast. It’s a lot of work to make a pitch for a role and to do a whole edit, but I’ll shoot an hour of improv footage and edit it down to five minutes, and now I am able to do that really fast.” POST: Do you think you will always have a hand in post? COPLEY: “Oh, yeah. It’s too much something that takes the whole medium forward.” POST: For your own recent projects you have chosen datacentric workflows. Does that mean you will continue to shoot digitally instead of on film? COPELY: “Absolutely. For years, formats have been irrelevant in my world.The only relevance was having access to film lasers. I like the central- ized digital thing,workflow wise.When you are working with very few people you want it centralized to a timeline because everything is coming from there.Your visual effects shots, 3D ani- mation, comping, it all has to come back into the edit.That is the work- flow I was always interested in and trying to make [it] happen with as few different tools as possible.”