Bingo for Jeff!
A buddy in town was in the Toronto film business and he said the same thing.
Get some software and play around with it for a while. Or download something off the net to check out it's format.
+1
On NOT taking a class.
I could see it being more detremental than useful.
There are some software out on the mac that turns your screen into the old monochrome (green types) of yesteryear. the cool thing is that you won't get distrubed by all the stuff on your screen like email and PPOT
