Cutting and piecing together video files

Hi,
I'm currently working on a project where it will be necessary to take small segments of video from several different video files, and piece them all together to make a single video file. This splicing will generally be done in terms of times based on sensory information. Video format isn't particularly an issue.
My question is, as a fairly experienced (and predominantly) Java programmer, is the Java Media Framework the best solution for me? It has been suggested that something like C# coupled with DirectShow might be a better alternative, but I'm not fully equipped on how I would "plug" DirectShow into C# etc . Can anyone offer any advice or suggest other alternatives?
Thanks,
dodge

Any advice? Please? :~

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