No experience with AE, I want to create a Kinetic Typographic video. Am I being too ambitious?
This is pretty funny, literally the first thing I ever did in After Effects...Was this

I was able to achieve it pretty easily and if I remember correctly I did it after watching a few of the VideoCoPilot.net beginner tutorials from Andrew Kramer.  And as you get more advanced do some of his harder tutorials, I found it probably to be the number one source in terms of learning the basis to After Effects