I have no experience with formatting videos.
But, my friends and I used to make movies all the time. Of course, they're all full of in-jokes so no one here would necessarily find them funny, but we learned a lot about filming something with just a camcorder.
In our last movie, we got really high-tech and had Director animation cut scenes patched in through a TVout video card, a soundtrack AND ripped off footage from Dumbo!