Jumpcut in the New York Times
Jumpcut received a great review in the New York Times today.
“Their shared objective, the founders of the sites say, is to reduce the complexity of video editing and to reduce the cost to zero.”
The article begins by highlighting a very entertaining music video for the surreal folk song “I Got a Bunny,” written and performed by Juanito Moore.
“The video 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.”
Below is the result. I give you “I Got a Bunny”
Scanner Darkly Remix Contest Winners Announced
RES Magazine and Jumpcut are pleased to announce the winners of the A Scanner Darkly Trailer Remix Contest. The winning trailer, “Scanner Monitors Remix” was created by Robert Rugan III of Birmingham, Alabama; the runner-up, “Scramble Suit Remix” was created by Dorian Ramirez of Austin, Texas; and the Audience Award winner, “A Civil War Of The Mind” was created by Peter Butler, also of Austin, Texas.
The Grand Prize winner and a guest will be flown to the U.S. Premiere of A Scanner Darkly in Los Angeles, Thursday, June 29th, 2006 and a Microsoft Windows 64-bit powered professional video editing workstation with Adobe Production Studio Premium featuring Premiere Pro, After Effects, Photoshop and more. Runner-up and Audience Award winners will both receive XBOX360 video game consoles, Adobe Production Studio Standard software and an autographed A Scanner Darkly movie poster.
“We were inspired by the response and the number of submissions,” said A Scanner Darkly’s producer, Tommy Pallotta. “The dedication and the quality of work exceeded our expectations in our little experiment. Hopefully this will be a catalyst in even bolder ideas of remixing movies, music and culture.”
“I wanted the trailer to feel like there were many layers,” said Rugan. “Many different trailers lurking under the surface of this one…that there is an alternate trailer if you just flipped one over.”
From all of us at Jumpcut, congratulations to the winners and thanks to everyone who participated in the contest. We’re looking forward to the next one!
Check out the Contest Page to see all of the submissions.