Mike Folgner is the founder and CEO of MiraVida Media, Inc, the San Francisco based company behind Jumpcut. Jumpcut is a video sharing service that was recently acquired by Yahoo. Visit their company blog here.

What is Jumpcut and what are its unique features and aspects?

Jumpcut is the only real time video editor available that lives directly within the web browser. There are no software downloads or complicated functionality. Whether you're familiar with other video editing tools or not, you'll find Jumpcut's online editor very easy to use and full of all the features you need. You can easily add and arrange content in your movie by dragging and dropping thumbnails, select the best parts of your video clips, change duration for your images, add your music or sound effects, choose transitions, add titles, cool effects etc. etc.

Jumpcut sets itself apart with its real time editing (as soon as you make a change in your movie, you can see it), its intuitive user interface and its abundance of features.

Another aspect that is unique to Jumpcut is online video editing community. You can look through all of the media that other people have made public and grab anything that catches your eye to use in your own movie. While this collection of on-line video is great for creating movies from scratch, this function also allows users to have their friends and family pool video from your wedding or birthday party, giving you hundreds of clips that you may have missed. Combine all of this video footage with Jumpcut's editing power and you have a professional looking movie in as few as three steps.
Upload, edit and publish.

So what happens when you are done with your movie? As soon as you're ready, just press Publish, enter your audience's email addresses, press send and you're done. They'll get a simple link in their email that will allow them to view your video across the street or across the country. Additionally, if you have your own website, blog or profile page on another site, you can either post a link to your movie or embed your movies anywhere that lets you enter html such as a blog or Myspace page. Any time you update your movie on Jumpcut, your audience will see your changes instantly, without you having to do anything.

Even if you don't have all of the video or pictures that you need, you can still use Jumpcut to edit. Jumpcut has created a community of on-line video editors that upload public footage every day, you can start with thousands of public clips to pull and remix from before you even begin to upload your own content. Remix a movie trailer or a comedy routine. Even try out to be in "The Revenge of the Nerds" by editing yourself into Nerds footage.

Jumpcut provides all these services for free. Just log on and start editing.

What is the software and hardware setup behind your service?

The Jumpcut editor is a flash application with patent pending technology to enable real time editing. All of the video editing functionality lives directly in the Web browser so there is no software to download.

How big is your team, and what are your backgrounds?

Jumpcut was launched in April and continues to grow it's employee base to accommodate the rapid adoption of it's product. I have extensive experience in marketing, sales and business development in the video space. I was Director of Business Development at OpenTV Inc., a leading provider of interactive television software and consumer video products with $95M in revenues, where I helped build the company's consumer interactive applications business. I also worked in business and competitive strategy for Hewlett-Packard during the summer of 2005 helping HP develop their media strategy and consumer gaming strategy, as well as working with HP labs on consumer video initiatives.

Also leading the Jumpcut team is CTO and Co-founder Ryan Cunningham. Ryan is an active entrepreneur and software engineer, building software and leading engineering teams for eight years. Ryan was co-founder and CTO of AimTV, an internet video advertising technology company that was acquired by NetZero in 1999 for $20M, generating substantial returns for investors.

At AimTV, he built the engineering department, led development of the product, and helped raise initial seed capital.