Screencast.com Unveils Major Release
Posted on Tuesday June 17, 2008 by Mike Curtis
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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Comments (5)
Very cool indeed! I enjoy using Jing to make screencasts for my library patrons on how to use library resources. You guys rock.
Posted by Memo | June 17, 2008 5:17 PM
Posted on June 17, 2008 17:17
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?
Posted by Chaim Krause | June 18, 2008 8:56 AM
Posted on June 18, 2008 08:56
screencast.com looks great... but it's NOT free (well the first 60 days are and then there is a charge of 7 bucks a month!) that is pretty hefty ;/
i know that bandwidth is expensive, but darn - i'd love to have a site that hosts my files in privacy and allows me to link friends to those videos.
Posted by Leon | June 18, 2008 11:06 AM
Posted on June 18, 2008 11:06
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
Posted by Anonymous | June 18, 2008 11:54 AM
Posted on June 18, 2008 11:54
Thank you for the clarification Mike.
Posted by Chaim Krause | June 23, 2008 7:56 AM
Posted on June 23, 2008 07:56