ColdFusion Video Tutorials

I have always found it easier to learn something when there are multiple perspectives on different platforms. With that being said I have found video tutorials and presentations to be a wonderful teaching tool. I am in the early phases (and still considering) starting an Open Source ColdFusion video tutorial site. The site will have training videos for ColdFusion such as installation, administration, debugging and any other topics the ColdFusion community deals with. This site will be in a blog format and it will allow users beside myself to post videos. Here are the issues and considerations I could really use some input on.

1. What Topics To Include

• ColdFusion
• CFEclipse
• Flex
• Mach-ii
• Fusebox
• Model Glue
• Coldspring

2. What is the best software to use to create the tutorials. Here are some of the products I have found. While Captivate looks to be the best it is simply to expensive for an open source project.

• Adobe Captivate
• Camtasia Studio
• Wink

3. Bandwidth considerations - If I host all of these tutorials and stream them (wmv or swf) bandwidth costs could shut me down. Is there an easy solution here? I was thinking initially about hosting the videos at YouTube and just embedding them.
4. While allowing users to submit their video tutorials how can I validate these are good tutorials. Watching every single video that came through would get to be very tedious. I was thinking of creating a valid user list. So if my friend Eric wanted to submit a video he would enter his email address and a pass code that I hand out. I am just thinking out loud here but the main idea is not to have to watch every tutorial and cut down on spam.

Any and all ideas are welcome so Thank you in advance for any input. You can either leave a comment here or send an email to danvega at gmail dot com.