Quote - If smithmicro was a professional company they would have training dvd's available that would teach the following.

could you point me to the DVD's made by Autodesk for Max? or for Maya? or by Maxon for Cinema? or my Newtek for Lightwave? all the DVD's etc I've found have always been from 3rd parties you see...  (I've just been to Autodesk's website, Maxon's and Newtek's... and no mention of tutorial DVD's being sold by these obviously amatuer companies.......)

Not sure about the other companies but Maxon does have a video training series, though its downloadable online videos rather than DVD's  http://www.cineversity.com/  and Luxology has an excellent series of pay for download video tutorials for Modo.

Though I do have to agree that its not really Smithmicro's responsibility to provide aftermarket training materials, thats not what makes a product professional.