Questions on starting app

hi. newbie here. ive never programmed before but i built a simplistic
blog app and am ready to move on to an app that i can use for my clients
(motion graphics biz). i want to build an app that has some details
about the project and also displays the video itself (which will either
be embedded using flash or quicktime). my questions are:

1 - should i keep the videos out of the DB (usually around 50megs each)
and just store the path to the file?

2 - are there any special ways to embed swf or quicktime files with
rails?