I'm currently a complete beginner at compositing, and I'm having a difficulty with the user interface in Blender 4.0 (view layers, collections ??). I went straight to the "Composition Basics" course, but unfortunately it is using Blender 2.7 - so pretty out of date. Is there another course where I can learn how to use view layers, and then proceed on to compositing?
Thanks
I might be wrong, but I don't think any course so far uses that extensively. Now that I think about it, Compositing is not a strong topic around here, there's hardly any courses on it. There's a bit of compositing used at the tail end of courses, but for a little bit, only to accentuate colors and vignettes. Maybe the other guys when they see this will have more ideas.
You may find Alien Abduction useful,
Now, I am not suggesting you go out and get yourself abducted by Aliens, I mean watch the VFX course.
It does go a lot deeper into compositing than most other courses, utilizing layers and collections,
It uses Blender version 2.92, not much has changed within compositing since, however we do advice using the same version as the course when learning.
Previous Blender Versions
There are a couple or three new courses in very early stages of development, all will no doubt cover compositing to varying degrees, more than the average course.
No release date scheduled yet though.