The compost from your yard is not going to do much; you need a thermophilic (manure based) compost to really make this effective. There should be almost no identifiable pieces in the compost and it should look like and smell like fresh soil... if it smells bad it's bad, and don't use it (not just sulfur smells but ammonia or alcohol smells are bad too...
There's a ton of recipes and ingredients out there, and everyone has their own twists (I notice in my friend Paul's video we don't jibe on some fine points and application rates, but we agree on the priciple and results; that's why gardening is art and not so much a science). I do recommend Elaine's book fro detailed recipes for specific plants, but the basics are mollasses (about a tablespoon), a teaspoon of powdered chocolate (no not the Quik and not the Dutch processed stuff; the guys who make those kisses are my regular choice) and here's the tricky part; a teaspoon of strained oatmeal (if I was doing trees and shrubs I would do a tablespoon of this stuff). You can substitute kelp pwder here; it would be my first choice actually, but I try to list stuff that we all will have access to). A lot of recipes use fish but I do not brew with fish, only adding it at the last minute before application, as it is an amazing bacterial AND fungal food and can overstimulate biology in a brew to where it consumes the oxygen quickly, as I feed BEFORE starting brewing, it happens quicker than Paul's model where he adds a small amount of food right before application, hence my faster cooking rates (12 to 24 hours) than his 36 hours. Paul's application rate seems a little low to me, but it will still work; it's an innoculant, not a catlyst, and even a small amount will eventualy get the job done...
Look I could do a class (and have several times) on why this works, tell you every detail I know about how this works, but the long story short, this is how Nature fertilizes herself; we are just boosting the process, turning it up to 11, sort of...It is biological innoculation to stimulate microbial grazing with attendant nitrogen cycling and etching of mineral nutrition through a weak acid process, or it's magic (I am on the fence myself...

), but it works a charm either way. Healthy ecosystems make healthy plants...
HG