At Techdirt Greenhouse in Silicon Valley last weekend, I was very impressed by a demo from online editing company Jumpcut. Using clips from other Jumpcut users and Jumpcut's own video clip repository, you can edit your own videos online and turn them in to works of digital art.

One very cool project that Jumpcut brought to the web was a trailer remix contest in association with the film A Scanner Darkly. Warner Bros Independent Pictures invited people to use Jumpcut to recut, remix, or remake the trailer for A Scanner Darkly, directed by Richard Linklater, who used some pretty cool new digital technology to make the movie.

Next up for Jumpcut: The makers of The Power of Few, starring Q'orianka Kilcher (she played Pocahontas in Terence Malick's The New World - a role a close friend's daughter almost took, but that's another post), are going to invite Jumpcut users to edit a scene in the movie, which will actually be included in the final cut.

Byron Dumbrill, Director of Product Management for Jumpcut, was a great presenter - relaxed, funny, and confident in the product. And what a product it is. If you want to find out more about Jumpcut, check out this Information Week article. Watching it in action was enough to make me want to run out and buy a video camera. (Since I had to run out and buy a new still camera - I went with the Panasonic Lumix DMC-FX01 with a Leica DC lens, as recommended by Blip.tv's Mike Hudack - when my Canon PowerShot A70 went kaput mid-week, that purchase will have to wait.)