Digital Home Thoughts: Online Video Editing With Jumpcut

"If creating a video and publishing it to the web seems like a challenge, we think you'll find that Jumpcut makes it easy and fun. If you've been wondering what to do with the video you shoot with your snazzy new camera (or your phone), Jumpcut is the perfect place for you to be creative. If video isn't your thing just yet and you just want to make cool slideshows with your pictures, Jumpcut is still the best place. Finally, a free online location where you can use all your media, create great looking movies and publish to anyone you choose. There's nothing else like it."

We're seeing all sorts of software moving online, shifting from a locally installed program to a Web service, and jumpcut is the latest in this trend. It looks like it's a Yahoo company, because they use Yahoo's sign in service, but I think they made a mistaken in making this a video sharing service - looking through the videos that have been uploaded, it's your typical mix of pseudo-porn spam and promotional "make $6000 a week" videos. In fact, this is one of the worst moderated video sites I've seen. So from a video community aspect, skip it. But if you want to upload and edit videos, this is an interesting service. Too bad it's tainted by a lack of moderation...