That was good, Nick! You covered all the points very well. With a cast of knots and splices you could make a sell able video.
As far as a camera goes any 3 chip "1/3 inch type" prosumer model should do you fine.
One tip I could pass on. When the video started out and you showed the splicing instructions, pages... They were white and it made your camera auto exposure fluctuate light to dark. It was adjusting itself for the white pages and then the rest of the video goes dark. To avoid that set the exposure on manual. That way the exposure wont change when you bring a white object into the scene. A lot of the time it doesn't matter, but there it was noticeable.
Damn good video!
