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www.postmagazine.com November 2009 • Post 1 Woo's latest film Red Cliff, two-parter in Asian markets, presented in two and a half hours. Lam, Yang Hogyu and Robert Beijing, with audio for the long Sydney. The international Huirou Film Base studios near Orphanage handled most of the and Café FX also contributing. interview with John Woo. • A close look at the unique concept- art style in the videogame Borderlands. • Several VFX help destroy the world in the feature 2012. • Animators get connected, creating a CG short via Facebook DAILY NEWS UPDATES WEB EXCLUSIVES Transitioning from scripted to non- scripted programming By Jeremy Presner Q&A: Imagineer Systems' Ross Shain REVIEW Avid Media Composer V.3.5 By Terence Curren DISNEY XD'S SKYRUNNERS NORTH BY NORTHWEST/WARNER BROS. HOUSE/JECO MUSIC This Month In DEPARTMENTS 2 EDITOR'S LETTER File-based workflows By Randi Altman 2 POST SCRIPT Making it work By Marc Loftus 4 BITS & PIECES Post pros at work... and play 8 POST PARTY Photos from Post's 24th Birthday Bash 12 DIRECTOR'S CHAIR Director John Woo talks about his epic Red Cliff By Iain Blair 14 VISUAL EFFECTS New Zealand's PRPVFX lends an otherworld- ly hand to Disney XD's Skyrunners By Randi Altman 26 DIGITAL INTERMEDIATES NEWS A glimpse of some recent DI projects & products 44 HIGHER LEARNING Dr. Sassi offers JET tutorials on Cineversity 51 SPECIAL REPORT Breathing new life into Avid By Jonathan Moser 53 POST POSTIONS The Zen of linear online editing By Dennis Ho 46 EDUCATION A CG artist's unusual path to newfound suc- cess By Karen Moltenbrey 48 REVIEW Apple Final Cut Pro 7 By Chip Eberhart A R S