Suggestions for video tutorials?

Newbie with the mac and FCE HD 3.5. I have an excellent book, but I am interested in watching video instruction first.
Any good training DVDs or training sites you can recommend? (lynda.com does not appear to have FCE training, only FCP)
I found one here that might be good?
http://www.digitalmediatraining.com/products/fce2/index.html
Thanks in advance.

I'm using one of Mastermind Tom's books to teach me FCE and it works like charme... ok, there's a slight language barrier (hey, Tom: you need a German translator? ... ) , but he has a very ... 'lively' (<< english?) way of explaining things.. lots of pics ... easy to follow..
plus a DVD, but mainly with demo files and a movie for iM>>FCE switchers...
I do prefer 'visual' learning too, but in this case, a book + a running app has for me a much better learning effect: better timing, better 'where is that button?!', better 'whooo - THAT looks good!' ...

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