I have never really thought about videos as an avenue learning about recording. It really seems like video might be better suited to a product than a technology. I think that I have some books from (maybe Bill Gibson) that have cds in the back with examples of compression and eq and what not.
I got all into it and went to school for it in Europe on some severance pay from my employer (I got nailed in the dot.com bust). The school was 9 months of really blazing through all kinds of material and lots of info on the different formats of media and what not.
IMHO the best way to learn about recording is to learn about mikes, miking techniques, patchbays, routing, power and then learn your console and how to use buses correctly, In roughly that order. After that it is time to mix and master and it just takes lots of practice from there on out. Here on this board some people are pretty good, so ask them stuff.
You also need gear and some willing subjects to make sound, and an acousticly sound area to mix in. You could learn enough to make some pretty good mixes in just a few months.
The crux of it all is pretty much always knowing where your signal path is thru multiple devices and why. Midi can get pretty nasty too.
I suggest that you figure out what type of recordings you wish to make, whether it's acoustic recordings or electronic music and then do the engineering and ask questions before buying the gear. The more you understand what you want to do, the better you can come up with a plan to get the skills, tech, and the gear together.
There is one thing at the school that I now think is pretty worthwhile. It was called "Golden Ears" and it was largely EQing and Compression.
