I know one site on where media can be uploaded under GNU license:
www.archive.org . There is already a lot of media there, and you'll find left-wing and right-wing media of all kind there. I suggested the video before, but Capitalism And Other Kids' Stuff is uploaded there since way back and can be downloaded for free. There's also some Michael Parenti and John Zerzan stuff, and if you listen to Zerzan's podcast you'd think he is the first to be banned from Archive, but it's there (in other words, they will not remove it because it is leftist).
Another way to distribute a video or a collection is torrent, and there are some legal torrent sites such as
http://www.legittorrents.info . YouTube and other such services are a good way too for direct watching. I'll also suggest that when one long movie is done, or a collection, it could be "made together" into an .iso-file for easy DVD-burning, which can be done in Nero (you put in the movies, create the menu, but burn it on the "image recorder" instead of the DVD player. The file will be saved on the computer compressed with everything, and the user then only have to click on it twice and burn it onto a DVD). This of course requires Nero which costs money, and I am not too familiar with users of Mac and Linux.
As for editing, Windows Movie Maker is pretty okay for something from Microsoft, although it is rigged with crashes, and isn't that advanced for multiple sound and video tracks. Also, WMM only accepts .mpeg files and it's own .wmv files, which is problematic as much on the internet is downloaded in .avi or .mp4. That in itself is not such a big problem, there is a great file converter, Pazera, which can convert such files into .mpeg;
http://download.cnet.com/Pazera-Free...-10786669.html
(It's free "for all time" to use, although users should experiment a little bit with the settings before converting files as conversion can take some time depending on size. Also, Nero only accepts .mpeg and .wmv (and some others), not .mp4 and .avi files (unless you buy some expensive add-on) so this is another way of solving that.)
Anyway, I did experiment with Adobe Premiere 6.0 a while ago with one of my friends, and as far as I can remember it was pretty good and easy to both use and learn, and offers much more editing freedom than WMM ever did, as well as compression options and the possibility to add formats (DivX, Xvid etc). Unfortunately, Premiere costs a lot, but it is well worth it.
I haven't been able to find much of a good music making/editing program for Windows - free or not - but the best I know is Garage Band and is exclusively for Macintoch (unless you have the knowledge to run Mac on Windows etc). Macs also have a pretty good internal movie editing and DVD-burning/making programs, so if you're out for a purely movie/music machine Mac is the best bet. But again the cost is the downside; while I managed to get an "okay" PC for about 400 euro, the only Macs in sight lands on 1000 euro, but I don't know how it looks like elsewhere.
Well, there you have it, some media tips. Also, I think we could look around on Archive.org for images and such, I think people have uploaded stuff for free use (as long as you print their credits), and there are a lot of public domain movies from the 1920's and 30's that could be cut into various uses. That's my two cents.
