Final Cut Express question

[Steven DeWitt]

Hi all,

I am new to video editing and looking for an OS X application for a  
specific purpose: I work at a dance club, and although we have lots  
of great videos, almost all of them are for the radio versions or  
short dance versions of songs, and I want to be able to have video on  
our big screen when our DJs play the long dance versions of the same  
songs. As a result I want to be able to create video files where the  
audio track is a single MP3 file consisting of the dance mix of a  
song (which I would not be editing in any way) and the video track is  
created from the video file (MPEG-1, MPEG-2 or AVI) for the radio mix  
of the same song. In the ideal world I would someday learn how to  
sync bits of the video with the audio in certain parts, but I would  
also be satisfied with an end file where the video just consists of a  
series of short random clips that switch maybe every 2 beats for the  
entire length of the audio track. I would need the output to also be  
in MPEG-1, MPEG-2 or AVI format. Would Final Cut Express be  
appropriate for a specific task like this or is there something else  
that would work better?

Thanks,

Steven