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How to salvage your videos before Jumpcut shuts down

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Yahoo! is shutting down online video editing site Jumpcut next month. This week the company rolled out a few tools allowing users to download their original video files and rendered projects from the site.

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.

Filed under: Internet, Video, Web services, Yahoo!, web 2.0, Web

Yahoo! pulls the plug on JumpCut web based video editor

JumpCut
Yahoo! has finally decided to pull the plug on Jumpcut, a web based video editor that has been on life support since December. That's when Yahoo! stopped letting users upload videos to the service, instead suggesting that they upload short videos to Flickr.

Now TechCrunch reports that Jumpcut is sending out emails to users letting them know that the service will be closed on June 15th, 2009.

It's too bad to see Jumpcut go down. The service could have been really useful. While it may seem strange to upload a video to the web before you've editied it, the truth is many of the free video editors for Windows and Linux computers either lack features or are too complicated for casual users. Jumpcut was simple to use, but offered a limited feature set. For instance, you couldn't download finished videos and you couldn't send them to YouTube, Yahoo! Video, or other sites. Rather, you had to direct viewers to Jumpcut or embed the Jumpcut video on your page.

Yahoo! will soon release a tool allowing existing users to download videos saved on the site -- something the company probably should have done ages ago.

Filed under: Internet, Video, Web services, Yahoo!, web 2.0, Web

Yahoo! cuts back online video editing service Jumpcut

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Yahoo! appears to be slowly pulling the plug on Jumpcut, the company's web-based video editing application. When you go to upload videos, you now get a message saying that Jumpcut is no longer accepting uploads. Users will be able to continue remixing videos that they or other users have already uploaded for the foreseeable future, but no new videos can be added to the site.

Yahoo! recommends users who want to continue uploading and sharing videos use Flickr. But there are a few major differences between Jumpcut and Flickr. First, Flickr users don't get the advanced editing tools that Jumpcut offers. And second, you currently need to pay for a Flickr Pro account to upload videos. So what Yahoo! is really doing here is driving users to YouTube and other free web video services.

Jumpcut showed a lot of promise. I think there's a need for a service like this, which allows users to upload videos and then perform some basic cut and paste edits, alter the soundtrack, or add subtitles and other effects. Not everyone has or needs Windows Movie Maker or iMovie on their computers, making a web-based service appealing. But Jumpcut always offered a walled garden approach. Users could upload and edit videos. But they couldn't export them. While you could embed Jumpcut videos on any web site, you couldn't save the finished video to your desktop or export it to YouTube.

[via TechCrunch]

Filed under: Text, Utilities, Macintosh, Freeware, Open Source

Jumpcut - multi-clip clipboard tool for OS X

jumpcut clipboard toolSomething that blew me away, back in the day, were the multiple clipboard slots I started using when Office 2000 came out. This blew me away because, as a mostly Mac user, I was used to the old copy/paste one thing at a time routine. Well Office 2k spoiled me, because despite efforts like iClip Lite (a Dashboard widget), I have yet to find a great clipboard tool. But Jumpcut might fit the bill. It's free, open source, and incredibly easy to use, once you get the hang of it. Copy some text, and it's stored in Jumpcut's holding tank. Drop down the menu bar icon (or use a hotkey to activate a bezel view), choose which clip you want to paste, and go paste it. There are some idiosyncrasies, but those are mostly from other apps like Camino, and how they handle keyboard shortcuts or the clipboard. It's the little things in life that help so much, isn't it?

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