After careful consideration, we will be officially closing the Jumpcut.com site on June 15, 2009. Therefore, we are no longer accepting new uploads. This was a difficult decision to make, but it’s part of the ongoing prioritization efforts at Yahoo!

We have released a software utility that allows you to download the movies you created on Jumpcut to your computer. As well, you can now download your original assets. See the download page to get started.

Once you download your movies, you may choose to upload them to another site such as Flickr, which now allows video uploads. You can find out more here: http://flickr.com/explore/video

I do love the support Flickr now provides for video uploads, but unfortunately there is NOT any support on Flickr for video editing as JumpCut provided.

Are you aware of ANY websites which currently provide web-based video editing functionality, as JumpCut did? I think EyeSpot used to, but it’s been bought by PixelFish and they don’t provide video editing functions. I thought Viddler and MotionBox at one time provided web-based video editing functions, but they do not now.

Alan Levine’s StoryTools wiki remains one of the best resources I’ve seen on web 2.0 sites for digital storytelling. Under “Video Tools” he lists and describes different options for video uploading and editing. JayCut is the only tool that seems to be truly comparable to JumpCut, in terms of allowing users to create a video similar to something which could be made in PhotoStory3, MovieMaker, or iMovie using a web-based interface.