We finally got our first Internet-delivered television show up on GeistTV.com last week. Using a new Canon HDV video camera, Adobe Premiere Elements, and Jumpcut to host and produce the final show, I finally got the prototype show online last week.

The learning curve has been in figuring out whether to edit raw clips via Jumpcut or pre-edit them in Elements and upload them as finished shows and use Jumpcut just for hosting. What I figured out (after many experiments) is it is best to create short clips, under 2:00 minutes each, and then create a movie in Jumpcut from the clips. Just like YouTube, Jumpcut has a 100 MB maximum file size so posting a 12:00-15:00 minute video will suffer quite a bit in quality. Posting (10) 2:00 minute clips and putting them together in Jumpcut is the “answer.” Besides, the video quality in Jumpcut is far superior to YouTube.

Now, we’ve been posting the short clips to YouTube and a local video portal IndyTube.tv. This has been pretty effective for us to gain eyeballs and traffic to the mother ship: GeistTV.com.

What we plan to do next is start soliciting neighbors around Geist to submit their video clips to Jumpcut and join our online group. We can then take their clips and add them to our movies, a cool feature of Jumpcut that makes it really unique.

Oh, and if you’re worried about Jumpcut over YouTube, remember that Jumpcut is owned by Yahoo! who also owns flickr. I put a photo slide show to music and posted it on Jumpcut in about 5 minutes yesterday, something you can’t do on YouTube.