Select Something to Capture
Posted on Friday July 27, 2007 by Matt Dyer
When capturing something with Jing, the first step is to select an area of your screen. Jing automatically selects your entire desktop or snaps to a particular window as you mouse-over it. You can also click and drag to select an area.
After you've selected a region, you have two options for changing what's been selected. Click and drag inside the selection frame to move it around. You can also mouse-over the edge to resize the frame.
Watch this video to see frame movement and resizing in action:
(FYI, you can't actually use Jing to record Jing region selection. It does its best to stay out of your way when recording your screen, which means not allowing multiple instances of capture concurrently. I made the above video in Camtasia Studio, and then used Jing to record the preview window as it played back.)
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Comments (11)
I didn't realize you could move and resize the video window while recording. This is an incredible option!
Posted by Kathy Jacobs | July 27, 2007 2:38 PM
Posted on July 27, 2007 14:38
Actually I recorded Jing with Jing. I have it on this blog post Jing this or that. And the direct link a small video like this one
PS. I used Virtual PC as workaround.
Posted by Jimmy Bergmark | July 27, 2007 11:17 PM
Posted on July 27, 2007 23:17
Kathy, Actually you can't move the area after you've pressed either the image or video button.
Posted by Mike | July 28, 2007 1:59 PM
Posted on July 28, 2007 13:59
I'm posting my general feedback here because I'm getting an error message when I try to send it via the proper feedback page.
1. I love this handy little program. Best of all, I love that I installed it on Mac OSX but it works for the Windows desktop as well (I have Windows XP installed on my Apple MacBook Pro, using Parallels.) I switch back and forth between the two operating systems all the time, and I downloaded both versions of Jing, thinking I'd have to install it on Windows separately - but no, it just sits up in the corner of the screen and is available to both! LOVE IT! (I don't suppose you could make SnagIt do this too, could you?????)
2. One small thing I'd love to see - well, two, actually. I'd like to be able to circle things of interest as well as draw a box around them.
The other thing I'd like to be able to do is to right-click flatten the shapes and text boxes so I could then apply a highlight over the top.
Another wish - could you show the size of the finished graphic or video when it's done so we know whether we're going to have enough space online before we try to upload?
But for a quick, handy little app - this is marvellous.
Marg
Posted by Marg | July 29, 2007 7:00 PM
Posted on July 29, 2007 19:00
Freakin' Awesome!
Is there a way to include in your website? That would be ideal to set it up to work off of our own hosting.
Woo-Hoo!
Posted by Chris | July 31, 2007 5:02 PM
Posted on July 31, 2007 17:02
I've tried twice to download a YouTube video, but get no audio. I've set the audio output on my Mac Mini "audio out" jack to external speakers and to my Plantronics DSP400 headset. Any suggestions? Thanks
Posted by Dan | August 1, 2007 4:42 PM
Posted on August 1, 2007 16:42
Does anyone know how to resize captured videos when you embed them? When I adjust dimensions in the "embed script" it cuts off the edges opposed to actually resizing the video. Thanks for the help!
http://greg.loeschfam.com
Posted by Greg Loesch | October 15, 2007 12:23 AM
Posted on October 15, 2007 00:23
Hello,
nice Programm. One question is it posible to caputre a complet Web-Page. I mean a Browser Window what have Scroll-Bars.
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Jaroslaw
Posted by Jaroslaw Kucharski | January 24, 2008 4:15 PM
Posted on January 24, 2008 16:15
Hi,
I want to save a screen shot in my computer as a jpeg file, not in the hosted share section ...How?
Thanks
Posted by Sammy | March 13, 2008 2:24 PM
Posted on March 13, 2008 14:24
Hi,
I want to save a screen shot in my computer as a jpeg file, not in the hosted share section ...How?
Thanks
Posted by Sammy | March 13, 2008 2:24 PM
Posted on March 13, 2008 14:24
How can I print what I've captured?
Thank you,
Pete
Posted by Pete | July 13, 2008 5:17 PM
Posted on July 13, 2008 17:17