Jumpcut.com was a website that provided free video editing and hosting services. The website was launched as a private alpha in January 2006 and as a public beta on 4 April 2006. In October 2006 Jumpcut was purchased by Yahoo. Due to corporate prioritizing and the on-going financial problems at Yahoo, the upload service was terminated on 16 December 2008 and the site was closed on 15 June 2009.

Jumpcut had its offices in the SOMA district of San Francisco, California

California

California is a state located on the West Coast of the United States. It is by far the most populous U.S. state, and the third-largest by land area...

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The name is derived from the jump cut

Jump cut

A jump cut is a cut in film editing and vloging in which two sequential shots of the same subject are taken from camera positions that vary only slightly. This type of edit causes the subject of the shots to appear to "jump" position in a discontinuous way...

, a video artifact that results from the splicing together of two separate parts of the same shot, or similar sections from two different shots.

History

Jumpcut was founded in 2005 and launched the Jumpcut.com website publicly on 5 April 2006. Jumpcut was acquired by Yahoo! in October, 2006.

In December 2008 Yahoo posted the following announcement on the JumpCut upload main page:
On April 15, 2009, Yahoo announced the closing of its service in an e-mail sent to its users:
Shortly after 15 June 2009 the home page carried a notice:

External links

• Jumpcut.com archive from 2008