Hasta La Motion!

So I have slowly learned the past few days that I am way in over my head while trying to do some fairly basic after effects stuff. I really like this forum and the VFX Talk community, so I wanted to get some advice…

I have a lot of free-time on my hands and a great desire to learn. I also have a Bachelor of Fine Arts in New Media and have worked with 3D, basic compositing, graphic design, blah blah blah throughout my program. I am graduated now, but don’t feel I have a whole lot of “specialization”… more just a broad knowledge of a lot of things. Unfortunately, this does not help me get a job in something specialized like compositing.

I just wanted your guys’ opinion on Video Co-pilot tutorials. I know not to include tutorials footage necessarily in a demo reel but… are these tutorials good to take me from “Basic Knowledge” to “Pretty Good Understanding” after going through them all? I read a lot of positive/negative things on Video Copilot here so…

Thanks for any feedback on how you feel about it, or any other suggestions of free tutorials. (I’ve already spent $25k on a degree, free is nice).