[XPOST] [REQ] open source multimedia authoring tools? In python maybe?

[stefanogaburri]

This is crossposted to comp.lang.python & comp.multimedia; if there is a 
better place to go please tell me :)

I've been asked to build a quick-and-dirty prototype of a simple 
computer-based training application. You know, those multimedia thingies 
with text, some videos, a bit of speech and quizzes at the end of the 
unit...

I've been proposed to build a new reusable architecture using Macromedia 
  Director: the reason being, Macromedia Authorware costs too much. 
Well, I found on the web a lot of tools that cost $100-200 and probably 
allow me to build such a simple app with a wizard or something like 
that; but what surprised me is the lack of an open source toolkit or a 
set of classes to help in the definition of a task that has become very 
trivial (at least in simple cases like mine). I know the varios GUI 
toolkits, but they're too low-level; I would have to build the system 
more or less from scratch.

So, what i'm asking is: Am I missing something? Is there a fabled "Zope 
for CD authoring" I never heard about? If it's indeed missing, i could 
start building some simple classes and share them with, like, anyone 
interested :)

I could use something like, say, PythonCard and ZODB, trying to define 
clearly an high-level framework to allow the rapid construction of 
simple multimedia e-learning apps. That is, if you don't point me to the 
guys that already did it, of course...

thanks a lot to everyone reading so far,
Stefano