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

I don't know if I can wait until the snow flies in MI... I so want this feature...now... Any chance you need an early tester??

That would be the clincher - upload to a private ftp server - like Kathy, I don't know if I can wait either!!! Can I be a tester? Please? :)

So is there any integration for 3rd party sites yet?
It would be realllly neat if it got linked to the flickr, youtube and vimeo apis!

A friend of mine just pointed Jing out to me. My initial response was, "so it's another screencasting tool... but that automatically hosts screen casts, big deal."

It took a while for it to sink in but after watching the video turtorial that it did.

I have yet to use it much, but already I can see it's superb productivity application. As the saying goes... it's one of those things you never knew you were missing until you found it. Thanks for the great tool. I didn't realize how much the screen capture > photoshop workflow was slowing me down.

Inroductions a side I just thought I'd leave a comment for two reasons.

1) Please add voice recording? I have not overlooked this feature have I?

I love the ability to annotate a screen snap before sending. It's integral to the communications process and indeed communicating is what screencasting and hence jing is all about.

The problem is I can't annotate a video capture right!?

It would seem like such a problem.... video editing is way to complex... but there's no need for editing / drawing because it's video.

All you need is to allow the recording of voice over! Are you planning on adding the feature? I haven't overlooked it have I? It seems like such an obvious thing to have.

Indeed I was checking out your screen cast about jing at the below url and I assumed the screen cast was made in jing until I got to the end and it said Camista studios. Sort of ironic that you couldn't use jing to do a screen cast about how cool jing is because jing doesn't have voice over. ;)

http://www.screencast.com/users/Info.Development/folders/Default/media/52f189f5-e961-4311-91a1-a392df7c4933

2) second, I love the social features. All of them. Flickr, embed and FTP. Great initial choices. I will probably use them all. I just wanted to comment to encourage you to further develop these features.

For example. There are a lot of video bloggers who screencast. Being able to post directly to your videoblog with the embed is a great feature, but have you thought about integrating with blip.tv and / wordpress or other videoblogging platforms?

I guess youtube would be an obvious one too.

That said, being able to record and post screencasts to my blog instantly through my favorite videoblogging service or platform would simply rock. It'd be the screencasting equivelent to mobile vlogging or mobile photoblogging.

Basically what we're taking about here is the perverbial single click screen casting, though technically it might be two clicks. ;)

Again, I must admit, I'm splitting hares. You've already got embedding, FTP and flickr. So... just consider this me saying... awesome... keep these sharing features coming.

Thanks again. I can't wait to see how it changes my productivity and workflow over the coming weeks.

Will it also be possible to embed it into a weblog?

Jing is great ! Looking forward for more features

Jing is a great tool - I was a previous user of SnagIt. One thing I miss in Jing is the ability to copy an image into an e-mail (seems to require saving the image to disk and opening in paint or similar to allow copying). Have I missed something obvious like Ctrl-A / Ctrl-C?

Thanks, PatM

@ michael, it does support voice over ;)

I'm a heavy Camtasia Studio user, and am interested in being able to use a free service like Jing to allow anyone on my dev team to record content to then pull into Camtasia Studio for final production. Will this work with the .swf files and embedded controls it produces, or would I need the underlying, (and not exposed), recorder file?

I ask because in that case Jing becomes a driver to adopt more copies of Camtasia Studio, but does not work in the reverse. That is, my budget caps Camtasia Studio purchases in the absence of creative content, but with more creative content available from the team, it justifies more Studio purchases. Does that make sense?

Looks like an excellent feature. Uploading to FTP/File covers a multitude of internal moans about security I've had when trying to get people to use this excellent and [currently] free tool.

As with Patrick H, I've been trying to get my overworked dev's to document for months and this tool really allows a short cut for them to demonstrate a feature or configuration that they have been working on.

Again, as with Patrick I would love to link this free tool in with Camtasia as in the following example:

1. A Dev completes an update and, using Jing, records the configuration and/or operation in his test environment.
2. Dev saves the file locally or, better still, on a predefined network location.
3. I or another Camtasia Studio user can pick up the Jing file and add it to a production for training, presentation or distribution.

Is that the sort of think you were thinking, Patrick?

Linking Jing with 3rd party apps? Is that the heady scent of a public API? Please say is :¬)

~Robin

Great project! Will I be able to have a Jing video play back on my blog?

Thanks again.

What about linux support?

I'd say this is a measure of the Jing tool's success - in my first month I'm up to my bandwidth limit of 1gb. I'd certainly like to see upload to my own server but don't want to lose the convenience of auto-generated embed code. The annual upgrade of $40 is not steep in itself but like many other individuals I already have annual costs related to hosting and services so Im conscious of little costs adding up. Maybe an upgrade from screencast.com with less space and bandwidth for $25??

I have started using Jing quite heavily lately. I still use Camtasia for move involved stuff, but for quick and dirty stuff, Jing is amazing.

Enhanced sharing would be right up there at the list of needs, and saving in a format other than swf (flv perhaps) would be the other.

#1 request ... keep Jing simple :)

@ Pete,

The great thing about our upcoming enhancements is that you'll be able to use your own hosting server if desired and *still* get the auto-embed code back. You'll have to do a one-time setup of some details since we don't know your server name and things like that, but we'll provide some helpful tips to make it painless. Of course, we still feel Screencast.com is best suited to host and share your Jing content. Your feedback about another price point is very useful information. Thanks.

-Tony Dunckel
Product Manager, The Jing Project

@ Deepak,

Thanks for the feedback. Lately a new term is arising for tools like Jing, called 'micro-screencasting'. It's a perfect term for the exact use case you mention -- quick and dirty screencasts with no worry of the umms and uhhs.

Micro-screencasting represents exactly what we built the Jing Project around. I'm so happy to hear you find it useful in that regard.

Tony Dunckel
Product Manager, The Jing Project

@ Pasquale - Yes, we will be supporting Flickr integration as an initial step towards broader sharing. Sharing to video sites like YouTube have signficant challenges to overcome including the rendering issues that occur with screen related content. However we look forward to your resposne to how Jing works with Flickr and where we can go from there.

Tony Dunckel
Product Manager, The Jing Project

@ Patrick & Robin - Great feedback. Yes integration with our existing Camtasia Studio and SnagIt products is high on the list of requests from all of you. As we better understand how to fit Jing within our product offerings, providing integration opportunities like this make a lot of sense.

Currently there is no way to import a .swf file into CS without using a 3rd party .swf decoder to render in an acceptable format. I will definately keep this in mind as we move forward with Jing.

Tony Dunckel
Product Manager, The Jing Project

Only while reading today's newsletter did I realise that there is a hotkey option for Jing. I love this option but my biggest reason for loving it would have been to be able to show my cursor in a Jing image.
Is there a way to do that? Snagit offers me a choice between showing or not showing my cursor. Is there a similar choice in Jing that I have overlooked.

One more comment: I appear to have the latest version of Jing in my machines but the preferences screen in the video that instructs us on how to use a hotkey is different from the preferences screen in the version of Jing that I have. On my machines, it does not refer to the "sun".

Regards,
Jonathan

Tony, I hope you are thinking hard on the way in which a paid-up Jing will appear as a sequel to the present free Jing.

Perhaps, after offering the product as a free "project" item for this long, the way to charge for it should be to leave the present form of Jing as some sort of Jing Basic and to present the Jing with the new features you are now considering as a "product" instead of as a "project". I really think that Jing has come of age and that it is ready for sale.

Regards,
Jonathan

SFTP or SCP support would be nice. FTP is outdated, insecure (plaintext passwords) and disabled on lots of servers in favour of SFTP.

I can't figure out how to send the JING folks the information they wanted on the size of my captures, etc.

Can someone point me to a blog entry or some where it's explained?

Where can I find a FREE program (XP) that will enhance the cursor (make it more visible when I click) when I'm screencasting? Thanks