Inexpensive Video and Graphics Classes
for Mac OS X in Denver, Colorado!

Cheaper than the competition because it's B.Y.O.C.!
(Bring Your Own Computer!)

I now only teach classes on your request. I can teach or tutor one-on-one to medium sized groups at my location or yours. I teach out of my house with a room equipped with a dry-erase board, video projector and two computers of my own if you cannot provide your own. My ideal class size is three people.

Your options are:

  1. Approach it from a tutoring perspective rather than a class and only work on your needs and questions, rather than from a set curriculum ($40/hour)
  2. Simply schedule with me to take the course 1-on-1 ($450)
  3. Decide on a future date and post it to the website to try and attract another student to lower your costs ($250 each for two students, $180 each for three)

 

I am including some old schedules to give you an idea of my teaching structure, time, and money.

Final Cut Pro

12 hours / 3 days

$150 for the whole series.
Bring your own computer with FCP FCExpress
Please be thinking about a personal project to work on during the three week gap between the second and third classes. first day's handout

2005 Classes

Final Cut Pro

10 hours / 5 Mondays

$150 for the whole series, or $140 if you pay in advance.
Bring your own computer with FCP 3, 4, or HD, or FCExpress or FCExpress 2.
Apple's comparison of FCP 4 vs. FCExpress 2.
first day's handout

Photoshop

4 hours / 2 Wednesdays

$75 for both sessions
Bring your own Win or Mac computer with Photoshop 6, 7, or CS.
The instruction will be solely on Mac, but the differences are minimal.

Illustrator

4 hours / 2 Wednesdays

$75 for both sessions
Bring your own Win or Mac computer with illustrator 9, 10, or CS.
The instruction will be solely on a Mac, but the differences are minimal.

About 3goose training

Classes are taught in a converted living room in an old victorian house. The setting is informal and fun. The instructor has over 15 years experience with vector and raster graphics programs (CorelDRAW! and Aldus Photostyler back in the day, and Illustrator and Photoshop for the last decade), and almost five years experience with Final Cut Pro.

 

2004 Classes

Final Cut Pro

8 hours / 4 Wednesdays

Illustrator

4 hours / 2 Mondays

Bring your own Win or Mac computer with illustrator 9, 10, or CS.
The instruction will be solely on Mac, but the differences are minimal.

Photoshop

4 hours / 2 Mondays

Bring your own Win or Mac computer with illustrator 9, 10, or CS.
The instruction will be solely on Mac, but the differences are minimal.

Adobe Indesign

6 hours / 3 Mondays

$50 for all three sessions
This will probably be half class, half supervised tutorial. The price is this cheap, because it is our first time teaching InDesign.
Bring your own Win or Mac computer with InDesign 2 or CS.

Final Cut Pro

8 hours / 4 Wednesdays
map to 2641 Champa street

If there is enough interest, I will start classes for Adobe InDesign, OS X basics, AppleScript, DVD Studio Pro, Flash, Dreamweaver, Designing with Web Standards, and more!

3goose Productions is a young, Denver, Colorado based video production facility.

3goose productions
www.3goose.com
303.667.3254
bigcheese@3goose.com

Featuring:

Final Cut Pro

Learn how to use the most popular inexpensive non-linear video editor! Classes will cover: capturing media and media types, edits and transitions, outputting to various formats, and much more! Camera rental available.
View an older class handout.

Adobe Illustrator

Learn the premiere vector illustration program. Learn about vector graphics, fills and strokes, text effects, bezier curves, selection, and much more!

Photoshop for the Web

Learn the basics behind compression theory, advantages and disadvantages of different file types, typical errors, animation, alpha channels, bit depth, and much more, using great examples! The software used will be Adobe Image Ready.

Other Final Cut Pro Training Opportunites
Denver:

Denver Final Cut Pro User Group
www.dfcpug.org
Denver's own Final Cut Pro User Group meets on the last Tuesday of each month at:
Film/Video Equipment Service Co.
800 S. Jason Street
Denver, Colorado
303.778.8616

Art Institute of Colorado
www.aic.artinstitutes.edu
Currently the only authorized training center in the entire Rocky Mountain region. Lots of other classes.
Cost: $300.00/day (Includes authorized courseware)
Duration: Five courses that vary from one to five days each.
Time: ? (8 hours/day)

CFU (Colorado Free University)
www.freeu.com
Has a one-day Final Cut Pro class, but it's taught at and by the Front Range Community College. All other classes are Windows based.
Cost: $79.00
Duration: 3 hours
Time: 1pm to 4pm on one Saturday

Front Range Community College
frcc.cc.co.us
Final Cut Pro, Illustrator, and many more classes.
Cost: $275.00
Duration: 12 hours (3 hrs x 4weeks)
Time: 1pm to 4pm on one Saturday

Community Television of Boulder
www.commtv.org/classes.html
Basic Video, Final Cut Pro, and certification for equipment use classes.
Cost: $100.00
Duration: 12 hours (2 Saturdays)
Time: 10am to 4pm on one Saturday

FMC training
www.fmctraining.com
used to do a nationwide tour course called "Final Cut Pro to the Max". They have dropped Denver from their list of cities, and have changed their courses around. The following information is possibly out of date:
Cost: $1,195.00 (Includes authorized courseware)
Duration: 3 consecutive days
Time: 10am to 6pm

Denver Digital Imaging Center (?)
Final Cut Pro training and more. They were good, but were expensive, and went out of business in 2003.

Boulder:

Boulder Digital Arts
www.boulderdigitalarts.com
They offer a variety of video and graphics related classes
303.875.8480

Colorado Springs:

Voelker Research
www.voelker.com
Training, Sales, Service, Support
5026 North Academy Blvd.
Colorado Springs, Colorado
719.528.5596