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

Hey guys,

I love Jing. I use it all the time to create demos for my applications.

From day 1 with Jing I've never had any problems with it or found anything confusing. Ever.

Dylan

The only thing that I think could be clarified is that you can Save to a file AND Share/Send to a file. Don't they do the same thing?

Why Jing doesn't have any menu in the menu bar on mac. Or wondering where the Jing logo disappears to, or if the Credits link is supposed to be clickable?

http://screencast.com/t/a2ebFrbBU

P.S. It'd be cool if you made it work with growl notifications somehow, I don't think you can do progress very well with them but I never really look at that anyway.

I am new to Jing and it seems really easy to use. However, I would like to be able to add comment to video capture. I have tried to edit the videos in History and add comments but the comment tools do not appear. I am using a Mac - can anyone help.

Rupert

Hi Rupert,

I wish I could say there was a way to annotate videos, but right now only images have those annotation tools you're talking about. So, the good news is that you're not doing anything wrong, but the bad news is that I can't help you at this time.

Thank you though for expressing your desire to annotate videos. It is good to hear feature requests like this.

Mike Curtis, TechSmith

Ditto! I also use Mac and would like to be able annotate videos.

I looked for that option immediately--it was the reason I signed up for Jing-- and was very disappointed it didn't exist.

It would be great if you could add that feature as there doesn't seem to be anything out there like this for the Mac (at least not that I could find) so it would be an advantage for Jing if you did. Camstasia has a feature like this for PCs, but Camstasia is not available for the Mac.

Do you think you might add this feature later?

I must say I had difficulty understanding how to get clear audio with my sceencast. It was explained nicely in the tutorial video and the text but still I did not understand for awhile.

I'm a professional writer and I think what you lacked from your end is a list procedure on what to do. This is one I wrote for myself today so when I come to it again in a couple of weeks I can review the procedure without having to read your text or watch your tutorial.

Please feel free to add this to your own help copy if you want for those of us who are helped by procedure lists.

---procedure list-----
TO RECORD A SCREENCAST

1. Set up Mac OS Sound preferences for Input and Output to be both set to Soundflower 2c
2. Open Soundflowerbed from Applications: the icon black flower should appear in the top menu bar next to Jing icon already there
3. Set up a screen capture of the video that you want to record. Drag from upper right corner of record area. To do this, click Capture from the upper menu bar of Jing.
4. When you stop the capture drag area a four icon bar appears underneath. Click on Video: this starts the capture of a video of the area.
5. Quickly start the video on the desktop if not already going.
6. When you come to the end of what you want to capture then click Stop Button on the little bar underneath the Capture Window. It will quickly make a flash file over the record area. Move over and play, checking that the sound recorded is fine.
7. You can save your new recorded video as a file to your hard disk. Or you can upload it directly to your Screencast account which you have already made.

revised procedure from the post before. Note Jing, as I use it, could use an automated improvement so that its screencast recording can start as soon as you start the motion of your video on your desktop to be captured.

---procedure revised---
TO RECORD A SCREENCAST

1. Set up OS Sound preferences for Input and Output to be both set to Soundflower 2c
2. Open Soundflowerbed from Applications: the icon black flower should appear in top menu bar next to Jing icon already there
3. Set up a screen capture of the video that you want to record. Drag from upper right corner of record area. To do this click Capture from the upper menu bar of Jing.
4. When you stop capture area a four icon bar appears underneath. When you click on Video: this starts the capture of a video screencast of the area. But it's tricky! Jing gives you a countdown of three. Have your cursor over the play button of your desktop video ready to click it to start the video already being recorded. Jing does not start recording automatically when you start your video to be captured.
5. Quickly start the video on the desktop if not already going.
6. When you come to the end of what you want to capture then click Stop Button on the little bar underneath the Capture Window. It will quickly make a flash file over the record area. Move over and play, checking that the sound recorded is fine.
7. You can save your new recorded video as a file to your hard disk. Or you can upload it directly to your Screencast account which you have already made.
8. Jing does not allow you to make text comments for your screencast. You can make comments only for its camera snaps after the snap.

I'm just getting started with Jing. I'd like to insert my images into a powerpoint, but powerpoint won't accept the image file. How do I change these images to JPEGs so that powerpoint will accept them?

Thanks!
-JJ