Well... I'm not an expert, let's start there. I'm probably a novice that can look at a block of code and figure it out. In the past I would input information into the database, and then pull that info into a PHP page using PHP/SQL. Or I will get code that will do what I want and try to figure out how it's doing it.

Recently I've been going through some basic tutorials on how to upload a file and have the file name and file location stored in a database, and the file actually stored in a folder. (Found an article at About.com but I keep getting errors when I run it and it doesn't work)

As for the video, this does worry me a little. I mean I could just have him FTP the videos, but than I would probably have some issues when I attempted to pull the information out for the display page. I am going to use Easy Web Video which will convert all videos into a smaller size and in flash. Hoping that alone may help make a difference.

And then for the display page which I envision to chart out all the videos in the database, and have a 'video area' that will display the video the user clicks on in the chart.

Hope that helps you understand where I'm at a little more.
Thanks!