I may get killed for posting this here, but oh well here goes....I have no knowledge of after effects. I mean no knowledge. That said I need to add a quick title in an upcoming project and I would like to do something similar to the text in the video below. The effect is :14 in and it looks simple enough...I just have no idea how to even get started making such a graphic. Are there any tutorials (yes I've looked with no luck so far) that might address this style of title?

GreatTeachers Surgeon - YouTube

Thanks in advance

Brian

Well it looks simple but there is a whole lot of stuff going on.
You might want to start here;
After Effects Basic Training (http://www.videocopilot.net/basic/)

I was going to suggest the same thing.
Also, look through the effect presets built into AE. There are dozens for text.

go here:
VIDEO COPILOT | After Effects Tutorials, Plug-ins and Stock Footage for Post Production Professionals (http://www.videocopilot.net/tutorials/3d_reflections/)
There is an After Effects forum here

^^^^^ Video CoPilot has some great stuff there.

The Video Copilot basic training is good, but it's five versions old. It's one of the resources that I link to here ( Getting started with After Effects (CS4, CS5, CS5.5, CS6, & CC) | After Effects region of interest (http://adobe.ly/bjBT3P) ), but it's not the first that I'd recommend.

And speaking of Todd....

Video2Brain has an excellent Adobe AE CS6 Learn by Video training that Todd K is one of the co-trainers on.

I just recently recorded a 5 part series on getting started with After Effects. It's only about 30 minutes and may help you out. :)

modio - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/modiocreative)