Yes, several things would be needed:
* An outline of what will be in the video -- with main headings, sub-headings, etc.
We should keep this as "ecuмenical" as possible: let's leave aside any conclusions about the papacy, validity of the Novus Ordo, etc. since we can't even agree on those topics among ourselves. Let's stick to a defense of Catholic Tradition ("the Faith") and the Mass. The short version: Let's leave Sedevacantism out of this, or this DVD project will end up like that large Sedevacantist forum -- oh wait, there isn't one. Exactly.
* Several researchers to provide the details/facts which will be the substance of the video
* A dozen or more people to acquire/find public domain graphics -- scans of old holy cards, pictures of popes (St. Pius V, etc.) We'd need a lot of them.
If you take a picture of a statue or church, you have full rights to the picture. There's a good starting point.
* One or two people to take those pictures and turn them all into a standard size -- say, 640 x 480 or whatever the original version of the video will be done in.
This isn't a movie, and there won't be any full motion video (at least not much) so we can make the "movie" whatever size we find convenient for most graphics we have.
We'd have to figure this out at the very beginning, of course.
* Someone to "direct" the video: take all the graphics and facts, and put them together in a compelling sequence. The director decides what the actual video will look like -- timing, what picture will display when, etc.
* In cooperation with the "director", someone will need to type out the narrative for the video, from beginning to end. Perhaps someone could do this, and the director could edit it? This would basically be a long essay or web post, with certain differences. For example, on TV you can't have complicated paragraphs or you lose people.
* A narrator with a decent voice
* Someone with video editing software/skills and time to use both.
* Some kind of soundtrack would be a huge plus -- but we can't just use whatever we want and hope the copyright holder doesn't mind.
Burning the finished video to DVD is the easy part, same with distribution. I have a large Chant CD business so I have a good source for Jєωel cases, labels, label templates, etc. plus I have a whole shipping "department". I have the whole infrastructure necessary for distributing CDs/DVDs.
I can also take care of the website, including a website that will be seen by people. I do websites and SEO (search engine optimization) for a living. I am especially good at audio editing, but I've done some videos as well, and I have the software.
What I don't have a lot of is TIME.
I would certainly need the researchers to provide the times, names, dates, etc. and maybe even a broad outline of what the docuмentary should contain.
I would like to "direct" the video since I have a good artist's touch when it comes to such things.
Worst case, even if I couldn't make the video because of time constraints, etc. I could lend someone my copy of PowerDirector 6. I say lend and not give, because it cost me $90 and I might need it in the future.
Matthew