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Today more than ever post production professionals are required to deliver high quality creative output with diminishing budgets and tight deadlines. Our Final Cut Pro and Avid training courses are designed to give you the fast track towards employability and productivity.  Our courses include multi-format delivery for platforms including tape, Youtube, web streaming, DVD and Blu-ray. Purple Mouse courses are designed to increase productivity and open channels of creativity by ensuring that your chosen editing platform becomes and extension of your imagination rather than a limitation to it. With the exception of discounted corporate training assignments we endeavour to restrict our courses to 2 students per course to ensure maximum personal attention and teach at a pace that is in line with our student's level of experience and expectations.

Final Cut Pro Support 
We offer free telephonic support for all graduates of Purple Mouse training courses.
FCP edit suite

We are based in Fourways Johannesburg. On-site training is available on request.

About our instructor

Michael Kruger has a broadcast editing career spanning 16 years, starting out as a tape editor and later transferring his skills to training after certifying as an Avid Certified Instructor in Hollywood in 2001. In February 2004 Michael attended Train-the-Trainer at Apple©, Santa Monica Calif. and attained Final Cut Pro Certified Pro and Final Cut Pro Certified Instructor status and has recertified his status as a Pro Apps Instructor with subsequent releases of FCP versions 5, 6, 7 and FCP X. 

Previous training assignments include broadcasters ETV, Mnet and SABC, filmmakers in the Okhavongo and video makers in Mombasa and Saudi Arabia. Michael has also lectured at AFDA, Rhodes Dept of Journalism  and Durban University of Technology. When time allows freelance editing assignments are undertaken.

Course hours are as follows:

09.00 - Course commences.

10.15 - 10.30 Break.

12.30 - 13.00 Lunch break. Snacks will be served at Purple Mouse.

14.15 - 14.30 Break.

16.00 training ends.

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Click on the icons below to download a PDF file detailing course content as well as course pricing to assist with your course selection . Then send us an email to schedule a seat on the next available course of your choice.   michael@purplemouse.co.za


FCP X iconFinal Cut Pro X 101 - full course (4 days) or basics (2 days)

 FCP X iconFinal Cut Pro X for FCP 7 users - making the transition - 1 day course                       
fcp iconFinal Cut Pro ver 7 101 - 5 days

motion iconMotion 4 graphics and special effects - 4 days

color logoColour correction and grading with Final Cut Studio - 2 days

photoshop iconPhotoshop for video editors - 1 day




avid logo Editing with Avid Media Composer  - 5 days

Contact details:

Michael Kruger

michael@purplemouse.co.za

cell: 082 553 2831


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