Screencast.com Unveils Major Release
The new Screencast.com: Bigger. Better. And Orangier. (We ate dozens, even hundreds of orange donuts to celebrate! I should have stopped at 3.)
Some of you might know a little about Jing’s relationship with Screencast.com. TechSmith makes Screencast.com, and TechSmith makes Jing. When Jing wanted a place to store video and images (Screencast.com’s specialty) so anyone could share Jings with others, we put two and two together, and made it so all Jing users got free Screencast.com accounts.
I know what some of you are thinking: This is the day when the other shoe drops and now we’re going to charge for Jing or your Screencast.com account or something. Nope. No fine print here my dear sirs and madams. HONEST. Everything that’s currently free is still free, and we love how people are sharing visual information all over the world.
So why should you care about the new Screencast.com? It’s better to show you instead of tell you. Over the next week I’ll make a few videos to show you how you can do things like:
- Manage your content like never before
- Create a Playlist or MediaRoll to display your content in a really convenient way. (Especially cool if you have your own blog!)
- Use the spanking-new desktop uploader to take bunches of content from your computer and get it on Screencast.com
You don’t have to wait for me! Check out Screencast.com and log in with the email and password you used to install Jing. Poke around and check things out. You can send feedback to the Screencast.com team too. Important: If you move content out of the Jing folder, Jing links will no longer work. (You can always re-share the new links/location.)
We’ve been holding off sharing how Jing can be even more useful by leveraging Screencast.com, but now is the time! The release is here! Enjoy!
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You say that what is free now will continue to be free, but when I check pricing at screencast.com, the only thing that is free is the 60-day trial. What am I missing here?
Hello Chaim,
All Jing users obtain automatic trial extensions. Some people have been using Jing for 9 months with no inturruptions or having to renew or play games with their Screencast.com account.
I should also mention that if anything changes, we'll give plenty of notice and you'll be able to take care of your content.
Oh--and you don't _have_ to use Screencast.com to use Jing. Some people just copy their images to their clipboard, save their videos to disk, use Flickr, etc.
Thanks for checking us out and doing your research!
Mike Curtis, TechSmith
Thank you for the clarification Mike.
Is it possible to convert the swf file to mov / Quicktime?
Hi John,
The SWF is a bear when it comes to conversion. I've tried a bunch of trial software off the web in the hopes of being able to give a good recommendation, but no luck. I've not seen a Jing user share a good solution either.
The trick is that SWF is really a flash file that we use for video because it's Mac and Windows friendly, royalty-free and really great for the web. However it's not a true video format so all kinds of editors and converters usually don't know what to make of it.
One idea is you can get the fully functional trial of Camtasia Studio (http://www.techsmith.com/camtasia.asp) and since we make Jing and Camtasia Studio we were able to decode the Jing SWFs and you can turn them into just about anything you want in Camtasia Studio.
Also Jing Pro makes MPEG-4(.mp4) videos that are in a popular format just about anything can take in.