3. Edit

We use the English word edit or editing instead of montage, on the one hand to avoid associating with digital editing all the concepts and methods inherited from "classic" film, video or sound editing, and on the other hand to emphasize that the purpose of this function is: to collect media elements or objects, process them and assemble them into a final product, intended for publication and distribution.

The editing function may appear, at first glance, to be less essential in a DMAM system, and less important, for example, than the preceding analysis-indexing function. But :

• it transforms a set of source media objects into another finalized media object intended for use ;

• it...