Using Jing to Develop Jing
I’d like to let you in on some of the inner workings of our Jing Project development here at TechSmith. We use a tool called Campfire that is a Web-based chat room of sorts that allows us to share documents and keeps a permanent log of past days and months. We use Campfire to ask quick questions to the group, troubleshoot, seek opinions and announce updates. Sometimes we talk about things that have nothing to do with Jing.
Jing 1.3 and 1.4 incorporated new features that required new buttons. You might be amazed at how much discussion and work goes into the simplest little button. Alan Dennis is our Interaction Designer, and he incorporates all the grief we give him into something tangible and “clickable.”
In this Jing video (0:58) I show you how Jing quimply enhanced our conversation about the little buttons in the upper right of the History window. (Audio is beneficial, but not required to get the gist of this demo.)
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blogfeuer--I'm going to need to do some digging, but I'm pretty sure you can set the Jing SWF to start playing automatically without a button press. It looks like you're hosting this yourself and using a Flash video player to play this content back.
You don't need to do this, as Jing videos have built-in controls (a scrubber, play/pause, mute) but there are some good reasons for doing it. Having a "click to play" image (in your case, a Flash player) means that your video isn't downloaded every time someone loads your page. I'm not really an HTML or Flash guy, but I suspect you might find some useful info in the embed code provided for movies at Screencast.com since they have similar functionality (only one click instead of a "double-click to play").
Let me know if this helps. I'll try to find some more information for you as well.
Hello Jing Team --
Is there any way to set your capture area to 1024 x 720 and have your capture show at a smaller size? Say 600 x 400 or something? I tried changing the height/width parameters in the embed code but that just gave me a corner of the capture.
Very cool tool if you can get around this snag.
Ken
Hi Ken,
Unfortunately, you cannot resize a video after the fact. Here's more info from a post Matt Dyer wrote on the subject. http://screencast.com/t/94SRCOxJ
Is there any development in the way of file formats (ie. saving to something a little more useful than .swf)?
I love this program--I had previously purchased a screen capture program, but with Jing sitting on my desktop all the time, it is much easier to access. Also, it does the very same job. Love it!
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I'm using Jing for QA projects to communicate various multi-step bugs to our developers. Very handy tool that hugely cuts down on time and miscommunications. Simple and easy to use - two great features!
I posted an answer to a question on Expert Exchange, and one of the Zone administrators, thought that using Jing was the coolest solution post he had ever seen!
Thanks for making me look great!
http://screencast.com/t/iRoGC5ch