Now here's a way to learn how to edit. Film School in a Box provides you with all the assets you need to edit your own version of the movie "The Confession" in Final Cut Pro. You don't have to worry about scripts, shooting, importing footage or any other details, they've done all the work for you. You receive your project on an external hard drive, all organized with 11 different camera angles to work with, the shooting script and camera reference map. Two versions are available, the Gold Edition for $279 and the Platinum Edition for $449 (this pricing only good through Christmas). The differences in the editions can be found here and you can also get a Preview Edition for $19.95 if you want to see what its all about before dropping the larger bills.

It took a lot of work shoot all the footage and organize everything in a FCP project so all you have to do is sit down and start editing, so the pricing is not bad at all and you're getting a hard drive in the deal too. I really like that this lets you concentrate more on the creative side of editing instead of the technical click-here-to-do-something tutorial stuff.