Sounds cool...I actually prefer text so where are the relase notes ? :)

Other comments:

The buttons are missing in the history page so can't save/copy from there.

I still haven't found out how to get [filename] to expand to the full filename so I don't have to adjust both target directory and share link under file settings to get a correct absolute filename in the clipboard.

...and is Linux targeted ? :)

@ XGhozt & Thomas Schaaf: Could you please submit that feature requet via the feedback form else it'll just get lost in here. Thanks.

@ Max: The release notes are in the previous blog post. . The missing buttons in history is something we will address down the road.

I was wondering if anyone has an idea how much jing is going to cost? also will there be a desktop save/copy version that will remain free(no screencast, ftp, etc...) I Love the app, I just can't see buying it when most all I do is images from firefox, and I can use fireshot with a ton of the same features found in jing(all the annotate, drawing, no video though) just hate getting used to something cool and have to dump it for a free app later is all.

Hello guys, I'm adding this comment to support the idea of give jing other output option, mainly FLV. It is a must. Jing is a great tool, and I will be ok paying for it, but IT is almost silly not to add different output options. This can't be hard at old, and it will make a world of difference for users like us that may use jing videos with multiple venues of distribution: ppt, youtube, company training site. I really need FLV. We are planing on using jing as our main communication and training tool, and we already have a training page that read from a server folder with flv files and make them available to the staff. Please make flv available. Thanks you and I congratulation you on this great tool

@ Pete: The video is smaller because I used a different program to make it. :-)

I recorded and edited it with Camtasia Studio, one of the other screen recording tools that TechSmith makes.
Camtasia Studio is designed for making more professional video tutorials because you have tons of editing, resizing and annotation options, which is why I like using it for these videos.

Video capture in Jing on the other hand doesn't have any editing options, but is much faster and easier to use. So when I want to quickly show something or it doesn't need to be polished, I use Jing.

Hope that makes sense.

I just discovered Camtasia and Jing -- Camtasia Studio 3.0 works with MS .Net Framework 2.x, while Jing requires MS .Net Framework 3.0. Could you provide the users with some hints & explanations. Camtasia would probably work with MS .Net Framework 3.0 (?), but could the .NET-update somehow bother the system (e.g. PC WinXP & SP2)?

Will Jing supprot flickr video uploading?

.NET Framework 2.0 and 3.0 are compatible; all the goodies from 2.0 are included in 3.0.

I've downloaded the latest(?) version from the link provided (Mac version) and I still can't find the new buttons?...

I've got: Share, Embed, Cancel buttons only...

URL: http://download.techsmith.com/jing/mac/jing.dmg

Additional to my previous post:

When I check for update from the: more --> help --> check for update, it says that there is a new version available, but it get's the same version again and again...

md5 hash of the downloaded dmg file: 51cd555cfa699b9272f68d149de0080e

It keeps getting better and better! Thanks

Does not allow you to specify WHERE to put Jing. Just puts it where it wants. I do not want it in my C drive as is already full. Not usable for me.

I downloaded and tried it out. Want very much to like it because I can see it being very helpful to me. However, when recording video on my mac and one of the actions I wanted to record was me scrolling down on a website page, the resulting video I recorded was very choppy, much like making a cartoon with a flipbook. Very herky-jerky, not very smooth at all. As a result the arrow cursor would disappear and reappear, making following along with what I was trying to show very difficult. Is there anyway to fix this?

I downloaded and tried it out. Want very much to like it because I can see it being very helpful to me. However, when recording video on my mac and one of the actions I wanted to record was me scrolling down on a website page, the resulting video I recorded was very choppy, much like making a cartoon with a flipbook. Very herky-jerky, not very smooth at all. As a result the arrow cursor would disappear and reappear, making following along with what I was trying to show very difficult. Is there anyway to fix this?

@all: I didn't realize that the previous version was installed under /Applications/Utilities/Jing.app, whereas the new one was going under /Applications and Quicksilver would remember the last location...

So, basically - now everything is cool, I like new features... thanks a lot for this tool!

Is it possible to select a different proxy server?
Or to disable the internet connection in total?
At our company we use an NTLM proxy server, and I setup a python redirect server for software that can't deal with it.
But Jing is only looking at the default (windows?) proxy server.

Another feature request: Copy path to clipboard. With this function you can save the file, and than it copies the path to the clipboard so you can past it in your webbrowser for placing attachments etcetera.

Ton

How do you zoom in and out of your screen? Is that with Jing or a separate program?

Hello Mario,
When you make a video with Jing, the format is SWF. At this time there are no other choices. So that's good news for you in this case I think.

Images are always PNG. Thanks for your interest and good luck on the Mac!
Mike Curtis

@Ton I'll double check with the team, but I do not believe you can set up a custom proxy. When you ask about disabling Internet, are you asking if you can use Jing without needing the Internet? If so, the answer is yes, you can certainly get Jing running then save to file, save the "normal" way, copy to clipboard, or if you have a network drive, you can put images and video there.

@sgulley The zooming was done using Camtasia Studio 5.1. CS 5 has a cool new feature called SmartFocus so it automatically puts in zoom and pan effects based on what's happening on your screen. (You can always change the SmartFocus zooms later.)

Hi,

Is it possible to record a narration after the video was captured?

Thanks!

Hey guys why cant Jing use my internet connection i.e from firefox...ii'm not the system admin in my company and i dont have access to the proxy username and password...what can i do

I'm having a similar problem that others have described regarding my company's proxy server settings. Worse, since I've not yet setup Jing, I have to wait till I get home to enable it so it will allow me to run it, even to take local screenshots. It appears to require a Screencast username be registered, but it can't verify mine because it can't connect. My only option at that point is to quit.

It's very annoying forcing login to use Jing when there's no way we can adjust internet settings. I have a login, but since restarting and installing the newer version I cannot connect anymore!

Is there anyway around this bug? You say we can use Jing without internet, but it's actually not possible if you force a login!

It's disappointing because I find jing a really great and useful tool - I've been telling people at work about it but now it won't work.

I'd like to use either jing or camtasia to produce training videos for people using Inventor software here. However, in test driving Jing, the system is reduced to a flickering crawl while attempting to record the simplest of activities. This is on a 4gig XP pro dell workstation with a high end ATI graphics card.

The resulting video is also strewn with small vertical black lines.

This is not something I would pay for!

Any explanations?

Hi all.

I have been struggling with this program for one of our teachers as our proxy/firewall wouldn't let it access the internet (it seems a common problem from some of the posts i have seen).

I wanted to share how i managed to get this working here.
I created a text file in the application dir next to jing.exe called jing.exe.config which contained the following :

proxyaddress="http://some.unfiltered.cache.com:8080"
bypassonlocal="true"
/>

we have a dedicated unfiltered proxy for direct access to bypass some of the school's proxys for certain apps. only ive never had to use this method to get a program to use it before.

Using this jing.exe.config, you should be able to get it to point towards any proxy you need to get it working.

Hope this works for some of you other guys aswell, or at least get you in the right direction!.

Daniel

Ok so i didnt read that HTML tags would be stripped ! oops, i couldnt get pre or code to work my apologies ... Swap all the [ for 's (its just a very short xml file with tags)

[configuration]
[system.net]
[defaultProxy]
[proxy
proxyaddress="http://some.proxy.co.uk:8080"
bypassonlocal="true"
/]
[/defaultProxy]
[/system.net]
[/configuration]

Can we verify that the above trick for making a file called jing.exe.config will work?

My school is claiming this may not work with our proxy servers, wondering what else to try?

Really want to make this work for our teachers and staff!

Forcing users to connect to the internet in order to use a local program is extremely frustrating! When I initially installed Jin (over one year ago) it worked fine for taking screnshots. But for the past many months the only way I can use Jing is if I start Jing at home, hibernate my laptop, then re-start in my office. My company's firewall apparently blocks the port or method Jing uses to connect to the internet. I have NEVER had a use for the screencast service, so being forced to login to a screencast account seems ridiculous.

@Rob Z: I can confirn that Jing will use the Jing.exe.config XML file described above to attempt to connect to the internet via a proxy. Unfortunately this does not work for me because I use an SSH tunnel as a proxy, which re-directs my local IP address (i.e. localhost or 127.0.0.1) to the internet, through my company's firewall. Jing fails with the error that it will not accept "localhost" as a proxy and, when using 127.0.0.1, Jing complains that it can not process this IP address.

Although I loved to use Jing for many months, it appears that I may need to uninstall it and look for a woking alternative unless TechSmith finally decides to fix this major issue.

I can only agree with Greg. When I initially used Jing I found it excellent for taking screen shots.

But a while ago I was forced to upgrade, and now Jing always tries to connect to the Internet and always fails. I have set up a Screencast account, even though I will never use this service but Jing still won't connect.

I've created a Jing.exe.config and pointed it at my proxy server. Jing still won't work.

I've just tried the lates update. Jing still won't work.

Jing is a nice tool when it works, but it is crippled by the need to connect to the internet, and the inept way it does this. Last time I removed Jing in frustration, and I've just uninstalled it again. I won't be reinstalling Jing until these issues are sorted out.

There are plenty of alternatives to Jing that have the big advantage of working when you install them.

<configuration>
<system.net>
<defaultProxy enabled="true" useDefaultCredentials="true">
<proxy proxyaddress="http://proxy.you.com:8080" bypassonlocal="true" />
</defaultProxy>
</system.net>
</configuration>

That works for me! Replace the you.com with your proxy url. I had to do some more digging to figure out exactly what to put. Seems to me that this would work for any .NET application!