I came across a site that I thought was really interesting called Jumpcut, which is a site that allows you to upload your own movie clips much like YouTube. In addition the site allows you to upload sound tracks and images in order to edit/cut a movie. It’s essentially an online video editing suite. The really cool thing is that you can grab other movie clips that have been shared by users, allowing you to combine them or remix them to make your own version. And just like YouTube, you can share your newly created video content with friends, the rest of the community, etc.

Jumpcut is owned by Yahoo and I’d imagine it’s their competition to Google-owned YouTube. I was actually pleasantly surprised at how easy it was to use the site, edit content, and my favorite feature: using other peoples’ video content to create my own versions. A client of mine actually steered me to the site after mentioning a Doritos Super Bowl contest he saw on the site. The contest asks people to create their own video using Jumpcut to edit the movie, grab shared clips and upload original content. The movies submitted by the community were actually really cool and more importantly novice users with little knowledge of video editing could participate. Although YouTube is the clear leader in user-generated video content, I thought Jumpcut had a really cool collaborative spin to it, and more importantly allowed anyone to participate regardless of their skill set or knowledge and you don’t need to have any original content to use the site.