Share your Tips & Tricks for Jing - Win a T-Shirt!

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The other day, I stumbled upon this tweet:

That's a great tip - thank you Brad! This got me wondering.... what else are people doing?

Do you have any tips for working with Jing that you would like to share?
Anything goes! Recording tips, editing tips, setup tips...Just post it in the comments by Wednesday, May 6th. Monday, May 11th 2009 11:59pm EST.

It also just so happens that I have 5 Jing T-Shirts laying around, so I'll be raffling these off among all entries. You can see the shirts in this 0:34 video--the text on the shirt is, "Jing: Show and tell for grown-ups."

On top of that, the most creative and/or helpful post will also get a T-Shirt, signed by the entire Jing Team!

So go ahead and share your tips. It surely will be appreciated by our readers.
Thanks!

PS: Make sure to enter your e-mail address so I can get in touch with you if you win.

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Could not find the right place to ask question, so...
How do I oause VIDEO recording, but continue voice recording?
Thank you

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Hello David,
When you press the Pause button while recording a Jing video, both the video and audio is in a paused state. It is not possible to just pause only the audio or video recording.

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Well make jing a part of Windows, so whenever windows is installed jing should already be in their , and its upto the jing user to buy jing pro..

another tip is to have a jing widget for desktop sidebar or google widget of jing...

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You should always be sure, that you have pressed the microphone icon before recording your video. Otherwise no audio recording will be possible. It took me a while to find that out - although it´s pretty easy, You just have to press the button... ;-)

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Hint and tricks:

1) Remove sensitive information from images using frames.

http://screencast.com/t/K68yT6VAOV

2) Use Jing as a quick visual reference for comparison without even saving the image, especially in programs where you have to leave the needed info to apply it elsewhere.

http://screencast.com/t/m871EyoJ


Thanks guys!

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Hi,

Didn't know where to post this, didn't find anything in Help screens.

First of all, I love JING and everyone who has created it :-)

I recently signed up for the Pro account, and had the Mac/YouTube problem - but I know you're working on that so I've stopped YouTubing my Jing (ouch! that sounds painful :D

My major and only other issue is that my MOUSE has done an Invisible Man on me and is now just a white ouline, instead of a black mouse pointer. This only happens when I'm recording with Jing.

I'm using :

Mac OSX 10.4.11
Browser: Firefox 3.0.10

I haven't tried using a different browser, but I could as an experiment.

Any solutions for this, or has anyone else had the same problem?

Thanks for any tips!

Ciao ciao
Teena

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I've used Jing as a measuring stick to get the number of pixels between two elements on my screen. Also, using the auto-select feature is very useful for getting the exact width and height of a screen element.

The best configuration for me is using CTRL+ALT+PrtScn as the hotkey to start a screen capture. I FTP the capture to a dedicated directory on my server.

One thing that I enjoy much more with Jing is doing web design critiques. Using arrows and text boxes make it incredibly simple to point out all of my suggestions. Just make sure that when you draw the arrows you draw them before creating the text boxes. This way the arrow slides under the box and it looks better :)

I've also used frames to blank out sensitive information as suggested by Joshua. Here's a good example of the last two points:
http://forum.phpvideotutorials.com/showpost.php?p=36208&postcount=1

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Hi Teena,
Thanks for your comment. Regarding the issues you are experiencing, could you contact our TechSupport folks?
They will most likely be able to track down the problem and help you resolve it.
The best way to reach them is through: http://www.jingproject.com/support-choose.asp

Thanks!
Anton

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Hi!
I have used Snagit and always love it. Now I'm trying Jing, at the moment looks great, but there is one funcionality that I really miss, that is the autoscroll... is i possibly to do it? at the moment the only way I found is to do a video.

Thanks,
Gloria

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Hello Gloria,
Jing does not have an autoscroll capture feature. But you could take an autoscroll capture with Snagit, and then use Snagit's Screencast.com Output to quickly share the capture, just like you would with Jing!

Info on the Output is here:
http://www.techsmith.com/snagit/accessories/screencastcom.asp

I hope this helps.

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I just discovered that you can create buttons to save directly to specific folders on your hard drive...

Are you archiving purchasing images and confirmation numbers? Make a direct button to drop them into a unique folder.

Have another common type of image you take frequently? Make a completely different button to another unique folder.

It's great to keep everything organized. I'd love to see a similar "publish to unique Screencast folder" config too so a single Jing account spread across multiple computers could all have a single image resource pool too.

Great program guys!

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What I'm missing is a rectangle (like the ones for highlighting) that blurs the content underneath it. Because sometimes I don't want certain info to be shown in my screenshots.

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You can combine 'image' and 'video'.
First you make the image and then you video that image.
This way you can enter your text, arrows etc. during the screencast.
So the viewer get sound and text during your screencast.
If you prepare yourself a little (e.g. enter frames and highlights before you start recording) you can get nice results.
Jing is good.

Kind regards, Tijl

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Tijl, That is an excellent tip! It reminds me of another one that's "sneaky" like that. Let's say you'd like to receive feedback on a document that is a few pages long and doesn't fit on the screen. You can start a video, and narrate to the viewer what you're looking for. Then say "pause" to give the viewer a chance to pause the video. Then scroll to the next page and continue. The viewer can read the first screen, then when they're ready they unpause it. It's like a poor "scrolling capture".

Thanks Tijl!
Mike Curtis, TechSmith

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My pleasure.
Mike, I have a question. I'm studying library and information sciences. This year we have to write a dissertation. I may write about what Jing has to offer to libraries. Could you contact me about that? (I entered my email address, so I guess that should work.)
Thanks alot, Tijl

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Hi

Id like to buy jing pro, but I never bougth without paypal for my security.

Id like than you accept payments with paypal, if you do it Ill get pro account and a lot of person thinks the same, I guess

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Hi
i am a doctor, and i also teach medical students on weekends, days back i leanrt about Jing software, and i gave a try , just made a video tutorial for a student and sent them while i was busy in hospital..

I specially liked the feature of dragging on a particular area and recording it and upload.

I added this program to my favourites , IMO it can be very usefull in education area, so if Jing can become a part of medical education package. i samrt application that helps student learn better and when they are far away or one of us has less time..

what have ya go to say....

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