Sorry, I don't know of any videos or anything. I'm trying to remember how I learned what I know about plastering. I guess it was just a combination of talking to a professional, reading some books and websites, and just plain old trying it out and seeing what I did wrong.
I'll give you the condensed version of what I know:
Apply bonding agent with brush or roller, whichever is more convenient. Allow to dry according to instructions, which I believe is something like letting it dry at least until it appears dry to the touch. But don't put it on too far in advance, because you are supposed to do you plaster within a day or few days of application of the bonding agent.
If you are doing a base coat, mix it according to instructions, paying attention to not mix it too long. You'll need a hawk to hold a managable portion of plaster while you work, and then go ahead and apply with a trowel. I got myself a good stainless steel trowel made by Marshalltown (I think that's the name). Apply a blob of plaster to the wall and while moving the trowel upward to press it onto the wall while trying to keep the blob from falling off. Continue to spread and trowel it until it is approching the final thinckness. Then continue with the next blob and so on until you have covered the wall section. Go back over it before it has started to set up to get the thickness uniforn over the wall, and to make sure the surface is flat. If it's just the base coat, don't worry about smooth, you actually want a rough surface so the next coat will have something to grab on to. For the basecoat, don't go back over it any more once it starts to set up, you'll only make things worse, not better.
A day after the you do the basecoat, for the final finish coat, do most things just as described above, except for the finish troweling. Once the wall is covered, go back over it to get it as smooth and flat as possible, but you will still have lines from the sharp edge of the trowel. Don't worry about that just yet, leave those lines alone for now. Just flat and relatively smooth is what you want for now. Now wait until the finish coat of plaster starts to set up. This is the part that I found hard to judge at first. You want it to be set up all the way through to whole thickness of the finsh coat. The surface will start to set up first and almost have a bit of a "crust" on it. Wait until it is sets up all the way through the whole layer. While you are waiting, spray dry spots with water to keep the whole wall moist. Not running with water, but just moist. It is imperative that you keep it from fdrying out before it cures. Remember, plaster needs to cure, not dry just like concrete. If it dries, it results in "dead" plaster that is uncured, and will just be dust that brushes off of the final wall. But anyway, back to the final troweling. Once it has just set up, then you need to go back over it with a lot of pressure and more water sprayed on the finish coat. There is probably some word for this, but I don't know what it is. At this point, you are working out all the final surface roughness to get a smooth coat. I have found I need to apply a lot of pressure and almost use the trowel as a scraper to scrap down high spots. As you are doing this, the parts that get scraped off will make a little bit of wet plaster build up on your trowel. This little bit of wet plaster will fill in any low spots like those lines from the sharp edge of the trowel. Just keep going over it until you get the finish you desire. And if it starts to dry out, spray some more water.
The key to this step is to time the curing just right. If you are doing a large wall or a whole room, the first bit you do will be set up enough before you finish applying paster to the rest of the wall, so you will find yourself appling finish plaster to one section, going on to the next section and applying more plaster, then going back to the first section for final smoothing, then going on to the next section, etc. It's a real game trying to time everything. I have found that minutes count in the curing process, so make sure you have everything you need all set out and ready to go with no interruptions. There is no stopping to take a break in this kind of work. If you sit down for
10 minutes because you got tired, you may come back to find a batch of plaster hardened into a big lump that you have to toss. Unless you are just doing a small section of a few square feet, you will get tired, so start fresh in the morning, don't do this at 10 o'clock at night.
I described using a base coat covered by a finish coat. If you don't want to or don't need to use a base coat, then I think it's OK to skip the base coat. But one thing to keep in mind is that the finish coat of veneer plaster must be thin. So if you are going over bricks for example, you may need a base coat just to bring everything to a level surface and then apply the finsh coat over that.
So this is my experience with plastering. I'm no expert at it, I'm just a DIYer who has fooled around enough that I think I have figured out most of the important points. If you would like to do something other than a smooth finish, I'm not sure how you would go about that. I haven't done it. But I do know that I like the look of a nicely finished plaster wall better than just drywall.
Ken