Optimized Display on Screencast.com
Have you ever sent a large Jing--like a capture of your whole desktop and sent it to a viewer who replied with something like, "I loved your image/video but I had to scroll all over the place to see what was going on."
It can be the pits because even if your viewers have the same size monitor--at the same resolution as you, the web browser itself takes up some of that screen real estate so your viewer will see a "cropped" version of your content.
Let's be really clear: Screencast.com does not alter or resize your content in any way. It just initially auto-scales content over 500 pixels high to provide a good viewing experience so it can be enjoyed on all monitors. Full-size viewing is still an option--just click the full size button.
In terms of Jing, this optimized display affects images (Jing .PNG files) and Jing Pro MPEG-4 videos, SWF videos are still displayed at full size.
Screencast.com has some other new features that can benefit many Jing users, but we'll talk more about that later. If you're really curious and want to see some examples, check out the Visual Lounge--a blog operated by TechSmith's chief evangelist, Betsy Weber, and of course learn more at Screencast.com.
Stay tuned and let us know what you think!
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I've just downloaded Jing for the Mac (OS10.5) and am unable to set up an account. I have successfully set it up on the PC side of the Mac running VMWare but when I enter my details eg email address, display name and password into the setup form the country selection is greyed out and when I submit I get a message that states 'unable to setup an account.
Is there a solution to this?
Cheers,
Alan.
Hi,
Yesterday I bought the Jing Pro upgrade and am liking it.
A question though: Before upgrading, I was able to embed a jing screencast to my blog without any difficulty. I saved the swf to my computer and uploaded it myself. The following link is a screencast I made for teachers explaining how I did that (using the "old" Jing) using an Edublogs blog:
http://portablepd.edublogs.org/2009/02/06/how-to-embed-a-jing-screencast-into-your-edublogs-blog/
However with Jing Pro, when I follow the same process, the swf won't resize on my blog. I ended up taking a jpeg of the first slide and linking to that picture as you can see here:
http://portablepd.edublogs.org/2009/03/17/how-to-listen-to-portablepdca-on-itunes/
Which is OK, I guess - but the old way is way cooler! :)
Any suggestions? It seems that the SWF Jing Pro creates doesn't allow resizing whereas the Jing...Amateur does?
Thanks for all you guys do!
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