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How to salvage your videos before Jumpcut shuts down
The easy part is download your "assets," which includes the original video clips, photos, audio, and other elements you uploaded to the site. Jumpcut is now offering users links for downloading these assets one at a time or in one large ZIP file.
If you want to save the videos that you've already mixed and edited, you'll need to download the JumpOut! movie renderer for Windows. This tool lets you navigate through your saved videos and select a movie that you want to render as a WMV file that you can save on your desktop.
The movie renderer takes a long time to work (about 5 times the length of a video's run time), and it's described as "experimental software" which means that you might run into some glitches. But right now, it's the only tool available that will let you save your edited videos.
You have until June 15th to download your assets and movies from the site.

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DeoWulf said 9:22PM on 5-21-2009
I like how this article was foreshadowed in a recent article.
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Martin-T said 7:54AM on 5-22-2009
Ah, the wonderful world of online services. Yeah, I'll trust you.
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