NY Times: Camera. Action. Edit. Now, Await Reviews.
The music video for the surreal folk song “I Got a Bunny,” written and performed by Juanito Moore, is not something you will see on VH1.
ut the video, shot on a rainy sidewalk in front of Mr. Moore’s home in Grand Rapids, Mich., has another distinction: it was assembled, not in a traditional cutting room or with PC-based editing software, but entirely on the Web, using an online service called Jumpcut. …
While sites like YouTube and Veoh have lately become popular for allowing users to share their self-produced videos, Jumpcut (www.jumpcut.com) is part of a new class of sites that also offer simple tools for stringing together video clips and then adding soundtracks, titles, transitions and unusual visual effects.
All of the sites, which include Jumpcut, Eyespot, Grouper and VideoEgg, have been introduced within the last year. This summer, they will be joined by another site, Motionbox, based in New York.
Their shared objective, the founders of the sites say, is to reduce the complexity of video editing and to reduce the cost to zero.
“We wanted to make video editing over the Internet faster than desktop editing,” said Jim Kaskade, co-founder and chief executive of Eyespot, based in San Diego. “We think it will broaden the base of people who are creative, but may not have thought they were, by creating this tool kit for them. Editing video is eventually going to be as simple as sending e-mail.” …
Saw the guys from Eyespot, Jumpcut and VideoEgg at Under the Radar yesterday, after appearing on stage with the CTO of Eyespot at Vloggercon on Sunday. These companies are doing amazing things, even if TechCrunch is souring on the space because it’s getting more crowded.
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