I recently heard about JumpCut, yet another awesome Yahoo company. It’s a website that lets you upload media (movies, pictures, and audio) and do fancy video editing that a few years ago you would have had to buy expensive software to edit. It all happens in your browser.
So, last Friday I ran around the library, collecting photos and video, so that I could play with the site this weekend. This is what I came up with (it’s not at all polished!!):
The movie can be found here.
Let me tell you, jumpcut is SUPER easy to use. It just takes a few minutes of playing with it to figure out what to do with the files. I have used iMovie in the past, so I have a little background, but I’m no expert. Really, the worst part of the project was uploading the files over my internet connection at home.
If you’re really brave and web 2.0 oriented, when you’re publishing your video you can decide if you want to open your original video up to public editing. If I hadn’t made a video of MPOW I might have considered it. I’m sure other jumpcut users could add all kinds of audio and text to make the video more useful and attention-grabbing. What an interesting idea! A point to keep in mind is that any Jumpcut video can be edited and published as another version, so unless your comfortable with that, Jumpcut might not be for you.
I think there are some potentially useful applications of this software. For libraries strapped for cash, this would be one way to create video tours, quick information literacy clips, and other interesting media for the library’s website. Jumpcut also provides a bunch of clips that other people have uploaded with the agreement to share, so that you can look for clips to fill out your program.
Good stuff!
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