The concept of Jing is the always-ready program that instantly captures and shares images and video…from your computer to anywhere.

Don,

Why are the videos soooo big now? The 5 minute videos used to be ~25MB without audio. Now each second is about 1 MB. :(

Jing looks wonderful, if only I could use it :(

I have Net Frameworks 2.0, but I'm darned if I can get frameworks 3.0 installed - just keeps giving an error "DepCheck indicates Windows Presentation Foundation is not installed - MSI returned error code 1603"

Has anyone else had this problem?

This app is great but I wish to have more image editing options (as in SnagIt - copy/paste parts of the snapshot being edited, crop, etc). It's sad these new features are still delayed, or at least, could we find out somehow if there is any intention to add them? This would be a big plus compared to other similar apps like Skitch. Thanks and keep up the great work!

jay's observations are like mine - I've produced
the same video 6 times - (by recording the
QuickTime player, with a .fla video w/ audio) -
it's a 2.5 min video - and ranges from 43 to 72Mb.
all other things being equal, the same video
produced by Jing (source is an .fla file, played
in Quicktime, captured by Jing) - is 203 Mb on
Aug 27, and 170 Mb yesterday.

for a Jing video produced on 27-Aug, size is
72 Mb. so, I uninstalled, then reinstalled an
old version of Jing - Jing video produced today
is 58 Mb. source .fla video is the same.

Version 1.26 saves much larger video files than version 1.25.
1.25 video capture: 3'43", 738x524, 8.41MB
1.26 video capture: 3'50", 742x503, 32.4MB

These were two different videos, capturing the same area of screen and similar amounts of screen movement. There are slight differences in pixel size and record time but a massive difference in file size.

iSaw -

many thanks for your observations.

you have summarized very well.

I, too, have tried to use very same reference .flv file,
playing in same QuickTime Player, and capturing that
with older and newer Jing app.

for each situation - older Jing does more efficient job
that newer Jing. (in terms of filesize - which is a
big deal, for us.)

for each situation - the time of day seems to make a
difference. e.g., capturing same .flv file does vary
in filesize, all over the map.

reference .flv file has audio, typical screen movements, etc.

This is very rare, I wonder why is it that the file size varies...you think it might be due to the amount of enhancements that occurred between the 1.2.5 version and the 1.2.6 one?

Hi
Are you fully ignoring Linux or are you working on getting this to work on Linux as well? I didn't find any information about that.

Thanks!

Great app, I'm using it on a MacBook and it records the microphone, excellent for explaining things, but Is there a way to record the internal audio? I mean the one that is coming out of the computer?
Also: when I made big recording, I cant see the control bar when opening it in "Flash Player", is ther a way to fix it to appear closer to the middle?

Thank you

Why does screencast only hold 100 mg when my file is 800 mg? why can't they make it bigger???

I already posted in the "troubleshooting" blog post that I always get the error message "unable to save your capture...". I wonder, is there a place where all the error messages are listed, so I can check what might be the reason for it? I tried google but it didn't come up with any results for this error. Also wouldn't an error message with a specific error number be more useful? Thanks for reading!

I work on a MacBook.....but can't record audio.....why ? Altough I see other Mac users posting they can ? any clue ?

@jay, russelg, iSaw, and Freddy :
We didn't change anything in version 1.2.6 related to how it captures or compresses videos, so we would not expect any changes in file sizes. We've tried to test for any differences, by comparing apples to apples, i.e., eliminating the varience in recording situations. We played a screen recording, and recaptured it while it was playing. We did this with both 1.2.5 and 1.2.6. The video we tested was actually one sent to us by iSaw. The size of the recaptured video was very close between the two versions. So, since we use the same code for capture and compression in both versions, and can't determine in testing any noticable difference in recording size, we think the varying numbers reported are probably due to the conditions during capture. Note that many things affect the file size of screen captures, including high resolution photos and full motion video, since our capture is lossless. See our blog entry "How Video Recording Works" for more information. If anyone is still concerned about this, please send us feedback in our feedback form.

wow big swf.... 42sec with 512x420px... 799MB ... 42sec!!!!! :s any configuration or determination with another version?

no audio, mac 10.5, ... version jing1.2.6 and 42sec with 799MB
sorry it forget info from my mac on previous post..