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SERVING THE INDUSTRY SINCE 1986 VOL 27 · NO. 4 2 EDITOR'S LETTER Getting started By Randi Altman 2 POST SCRIPT NLE battles CAREER 20 PAVING THEIR WAY How these pros found their path to entertainment. By Randi Altman VIDEO & FILM 26 ON-SET POST The line between production and post continues to blur. By Christine Bunish VISUAL EFFECTS 32 VFX FOR TV Low budgets and tight deadlines create challenges for artists. By Marc Loftus AUDIO 38 AUDIO FOR TV Bringing a big-time sound experience to living rooms. By Christine Bunish 26 38 Fox's rookie offering Alcatraz, a J. J. Abrams production, uses a variety of houses to accomplish the show's visual effects, most of which are invisible. One regular task is putting actors, who are shot in Vancouver, into the show's San Francisco location. Another is putting a 3D Alcatraz into shots, adding buildings and set extensions. Jay Worth is the show's VFX supervisor. He holds that title on all of Abrams' television shows through Bad Robot. For more on our conversation with Worth, please turn to page 16. 14 4 By Marc Loftus 4 BITS & PIECES What's new in post 14 DIRECTOR'S CHAIR Andrew Stanton — John Carter By Iain Blair 16 COVER STORY Alcatraz's arresting effects By Randi Altman 18 SOUNDS GOOD Soundelux creates the soundtrack for The Hunger Games 46 POST POSITIONS Archive now for later By Chris Lacinak 48 PRODUCTS The latest hardware & software 52 PEOPLE Keeping tabs of the industry's movers & shakers 54 REVIEW Final Cut Pro X 10.0.3 By Tor Rolf Johansen 56 REVIEW Avid Media Composer 6 By Greg Kiernan DAILY NEWS UPDATES NAB NEWS WEB EXCLUSIVE IMG Mediahouse employs centralized storage This Month In • ILM's CG for Battleship • Advancements in realtime animation • The Cloud: Adobe's latest vision www.postmagazine.com Post • April 2012 1 GOLAEM CROWD JOHN CARTER ENCORE BREAKING BAD ON OUR COVER