Richard --

iMovie (also on Mac) is mainly for home movies, but also allows 
cutting, pasting and splicing of of sound tracks. Final Cut is more 
than they need. Adobe Premiere had darn good music track editing as I 
recall.

However, this is not that difficult in Squeak. To look at a good 
start, check out Dan Ingalls' sMovie in Squeak (the important parts 
of iMovie done in Squeak). This was done several years ago to both 
show Disney and to prove that something major in media could be done 
in just a few weeks. This could be easily modified to do most sound 
track editing.
     Also let's ask Jim Benson what he's been doing these days. He 
showed me a really beautiful framework done in Squeak for editing 
"iMovie style" several years ago.

Cheers,

Alan

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At 11:37 AM +1300 3/6/02, Richard A. O'Keefe wrote:
>	What do they mean by digital editing?
>	Cutting, pasting and splicing of the tracks?
>
>I thought I was careful to say "editing of digital music"
>rather than "digital editing of music".
>My understanding of what they want to do is just what
>you say, cutting, pasting, and splicing.
>If they get adventurous, they might want to do a bit
>of mixing.  Modifying the signal as such is not important.
>
>Since sending that message, I've found out about Amadeus II,
>which looks like a lot more than they need, and has a GREAT
>price (USD 25), except that I suspect they'll want to run it
>on a Windows box, and Amadeus II appears to be Mac only.


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