Jackie Danicki

I was very impressed by a Techdirt Greenhouse demo from online editing company Jumpcut. Using clips from other Jumpcut users and Jumpcut’s own video clip repository, you can edit your own videos online and turn them in to works of digital art.

One very cool project that Jumpcut brought to the web was a trailer remix contest in association with the film A Scanner Darkly. Warner Bros Independent Pictures invited people to use Jumpcut to recut, remix, or remake the trailer for A Scanner Darkly, directed by Richard Linklater, who used some pretty cool new digital technology to make the movie.

Next up for Jumpcut: The makers of The Power of Few, starring Q’orianka Kilcher (she played Pocahontas in Terence Malick’s The New World - a role Nancy Rommelmann’s daughter, Hillary’s niece, almost took, but that’s another post), are going to invite Jumpcut users to edit a scene in the movie, which will actually be included in the final cut.

Byron Dumbrill, Director of Product Management for Jumpcut, was a great presenter - relaxed, funny, and confident in the product. And what a product it is. If you want to find out more about Jumpcut, check out this Information Week article. Watching it in action was enough to make me want to run out and buy a video camera. What a great time to be alive and to be creative!

The demo from Byron was a prompt for us to talk about what the place for traditional media is in an environment where the public is making their own entertainment. Again, this broad question thing just rubbed me the wrong way completely; an entire conference or multi-day event could be spent tackling that one. I’d have been a lot more interested in and enthusiastic about brainstorming Jumpcut’s specific challenges and coming up with ideas for how they can improve, grow, and bring more value to people. I hope the Techdirt guys go back to prompting us to talk about those things at the next event, rather than these sorts of broad topics.

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