It costs a lot of money to maintain a site, and it takes a lot of time to create a good tutorial. No one has a problem with sites like fxphd charging money. Suck it up, and support the people who are going to help you make a lot more money then you’re going to spend here.

To the Admin’s on AEtuts: don’t forget that a great way to sell great training is to offer great free training as an example. You’ve done great work here, providing really interesting and useful stuff – keep it up and people will get over themselves pretty quickly.

As a former Tuts+ editor I can tell you Plus tutorials and regular tutorials are sourced separately so there is no way this can happen; Plus tutorials aren’t simply taken from the pool of regular submissions. They’re commissioned from the get-go to be a higher quality piece.

dunno if i like paying for tutorials on technique tbh.

I’ve been really impressed so far with AE Tuts, and was dissapointed with some of the + selections in the photoshop area for example. I really hope you guys know what you’re doing and can maintain the already excellent standard you have for the free tuts, and maybe if your + tuts go beyond what you’ve got here (like, really beyond because the standard keeps getting raised here) I could be persuaded – but I highly doubt that as poor student (who probably represents a significant proportion of your viewers).

A suggestion I have would be maybe to tailor these + tuts towards more industry specific stuff, like work flows or common practice – stuff you don’t really learn until you’re in a studio. This is critical knowledge that isn’t taught in schools and is invaluable to graduates especially. Studios can always teach you the bells and whistles of After Effects, so maybe you can arm people with better tools to land jobs or integrate into the work force.

/2cents