May I also give links for lessons for After Effects?

I have been sharing my experiences with lessons from Dr. Russell Brown and Mr. Richard Harrington as I have been learning Photoshop. I am now learning After Effects. May I also share my experiences on this forum or in messages on the After Effects Help pages as I have done for Photoshop? I do not want to insult anyone by saying that I prefer the lessons of Mr. Andrew Kramer. It is not that I do not find enough from the very nice Adobe manual on the Web. I do! I also find much additional value from the lessons from such others. Is it welcome?
Thank you!

I'll second Adolfo's answer with an "absolutely"!
I am the person who writes most of the After Effects manual, and I certainly take no offense at the suggestion that some of Andrew's (or Richard's) tutorials might be better than my pages at communicating certain ideas and techniques. If you have links to share, I say "bring 'em on"! In fact, from this search and this search, you can see that I am happy to include links from Richard and Andrew directly in the After Effects Help document. I would like to include more, but I don't have enough time to watch all of the video tutorials that are out there. If you're volunteering to help out by finding the good tutorials and providing links to them from the relevant pages of Help on the Web... well, for that I (and many others) will be most grateful.
I do ask that you try to find the most relevant pages of the Help document for each tutorial, so that your links are most useful. It's also good if you provide a little summary of the tutorial so that people know what's in it before they click a link. This page contains some examples of how I add links to tutorials.

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for After Effects advice, Eric on the forum here can give you the best info. However, I have seen him say many times that AE is MEMORY INTENSIVE,....the more, the better. You HAVE 64GB...that seems very adequate for most workflows.
The OTHER thing he says is that other than Ray-Tracing, the GPU is HARDLY used at all.....CPU speed and number of cores are a BIG factor in AE performance.....your 3930k overclocked should be adequate....the MORE OC, the BETTER.
Next is the drive system....you have NOT described EXACTLY what you are doing NOW....you mentioned what your PLAN is,but for , right NOW you said : " I run/keep my project files on yet another SSD and have other drives holing media. "
HERE is where you MAY be doing something that may....or may NOT.....be causing slowdowns.   With AE it is RECOMMENDED to use a dedicated drive for the "Global Performance Cache"...the HIGHER the speed of this drive, the BETTER, as AE STORES already "rendered" frames, ( for "previews", of course), on it so it DOESN"T have to RE-RENDER ALL the frames all over again every time you make a change to your work !!! So, in YOUR case : your OS drive is great...Samsung Pro models are the BEST...you have the 840 Pro ,which is only SLIGHTLY behind the 850 Pro in performance. ANOTHER 840,or, 850 Pro would be GREAT as the " Global performance cache drive" AND would also be the place to put ALL previews,Cache files, media cache files for Premier Pro,too. The overall speed and less latency of the SATAIII SSD will surpass the performance of a 2 disk RAID 0....even a 3 disk RAID 0.
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Interesting.
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http://www.videoforums.co.uk/adobe-premiere-premiere-elements-after-effects/19161-how-i-im port-mpg.html
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or
Online Chat Now button near the bottom for Activation and Deactivation problems may help
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Hi all,
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I currently have CS6 web premium installed (student edition), but I require access to After Effects for a single assignment. Obviously there is no standalone for After Effects in a student edition.
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Hi Missy~,
Welcome to the Community!
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hi
i read a thread in FAQ about how to learn after effect but i want your experience.in the internet there are many tutorials for after effect but can someone tell me where can i download or buy the best and complete after effect tutorial from begining to really professional?

Once you have a handle on the basics it is important to focus on one area at a time. Compositing, motion graphics, Visual Effects all require completely different skill sets. When you figure out what you want to concentrate on then we can give you a better idea of how to start. If you want a complete course in AE I'd suggest Total Training or Lynda.com Both offer excellent tutorials that take off right after Adobe TV leaves off.

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I believe you've posted this multiple times. Once is all that's needed. Also, please don't use all caps. Aside from the fact it means you're shouting it's also harder to read than mixed case.
The error means a bad fan motor or the HDD has failed. In your case it's the latter. You can try the following:
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