I would recommend Sony Vegas for editing & AE.
I edited with Premiere for about a year or so, but I found that it is quite an annoying program... Here are some sony vegas tutorials:
https://www.mpgh.net/forum/303-video-...tutorials.html
https://www.mpgh.net/forum/303-video-...-tutorial.html
https://www.mpgh.net/forum/303-video-...e-helpful.html
Also here are a ton of basic AE tutorials posted by @Bandicoot
https://www.mpgh.net/forum/303-video-...mpilation.html