This is another great resource for the toolbag. I'm still not done going through all the Creative Cow Tutorial DVDs I bought with Eran Stern and Aharon Rabinowitz, and everything Andrew Kramer at Video Copilot.net produces. I've bought all of his products as well. I love AE, the plug ins are a little expensive, but well worth it. I probably went overboard with all of the plugins I bought, but maybe someday I'll be able to justify the expenses....... Another good program to use is Zaxwerks Proanimator, they have pretty good tutorials as well. I found out that as I got better and understood AE more, going back through even the most basic tutorials I learned something. I think it's because as I used AE more and more, I got more familiar with the terms and techniques, and all those things I didn't understand in the beginning now make sense, even things as simple as workflow techniques. I'm far from being an expert or Pro, but sometimes I'm actually amazed at the work I can do simply following the tutorials. I'm even going to buy the one fromm Total Training because sure, it does go over some stuff I already know, but I've found out that each tutorial author has their own way of doing things and may go into detail alittle more about a certain function, such a Colorama, a difficult, commonly misunderstood, but very useful tool in AE. One tutorial I bought simply showed you how to use it for a specific effect, but on another tutorial that was free, the author went into more detail as to how, what, and why Colorama can be used. So, I think purchasing multiple tutorials, if you can afford it, can only add skills and knowledge to your toolkit. Sorry, for the pointless long response.
