Who said there is no such thing as a free lunch? Well, there might not actually be a free lunch, but there certainly is a free website to do some intense editing of those new digital videos that you had made from all those old home movies. The place is JayCut, and it is just the thing for the aspiring director who wants to take the family digital videos and turn them into the next Oscar winner. Okay, maybe an Oscar won't be waiting in the wings, but the joy of being able to be your own Steven Spielberg for the family videos is fun.

Good video editing software can be pricey. Then there is the need to have a very fast computer and a video card with big muscles just to do basic editing and rendering of video. Rendering is when all of the scene cuts, transitions, special effects, and other things are run through a computer to turn it into a video file we can watch, burn, email, YouTube, and send by MMS on our cell phones. Rendering can take hours to complete even on some newer computers—and can fail at any point. It can be an annoying and painful process. Plus the learning curve for some video editing software is steep indeed!

JayCut is a Flash based video editor that we can use by just logging onto their website. First you upload some video clips. Maybe you have your brother Larry's baby films that have been turned into video by Got Memories. Oh, and let's not forget those embarrassing videos that mom and dad shot on the camcorder of Larry that have been transferred to digital. Get some digital footage of Larry doing what Larry does now, upload all of the clips to JayCut, and let the Steven Spielberg flow from your fingertips with the super easy drag & drop JayCut video editor.

JayCut makes it easy to do cool transitional effects from clip to clip such as dissolves and wipes. You can make a scene black and white, adjust the brightness, and do other cool effects. No sound on those video clips made from old home movies of Larry? No problem. You can give Larry just about any background sound or music that you want. Record a voice over and upload it with your video clips. Drag & drop the audio into the editor, move it around, do what you want! Larry deserves it!

Get those clips all lined up how you want them with all of the cool effects, transitions, and audio where you want it, then export it to a file you can use anywhere. The best part is that JayCut's computers do all of the rendering! It doesn't matter if you have a computer that can't run fancy video editing software. And it truly is free for those who only upload no more than 2 gigabytes of files to edit and don't make more than 20 movies a month. Plus you can stream up to 10 gigabytes a month on the free account. If you should have a need to do more, then sign up for one of JayCut's paid accounts.

Go give it a try now at http://www.jaycut.com

Here is a rather irreverent look at the free online video editing software JayCut from the folks over at G4 TV and Attack of the Show. The video gives a decent overview of the features available from JayCut.