Yeah yeah, there's a typo in there... Bonus points to whoever finds it first ;). We still have plenty of time to fix that and hopefully incorporate some of your feedback as long as doesn't involve a dramatic overhaul.

That's the beauty of getting things out before they're fully cooked, right?

Thanks everyone,
Mike Curtis, TechSmith

The fact that you are sharing an image of a map from a browser window seems to be an odd choice to me. Most users would just past the URL.

If I were making a demo like this I'd use a sample that was not do-able through other, easier, means.

I'd find an app with an odd interface and the use case would be to show my friend how to use it. I might use a xion skin (http://www.wincustomize.com/skins.aspx?libid=67 has a bunch) in my demo.

Otherwise . . I think it's a good demo.

Paste with Command-V? Is that a Mac thing? I always use control-V

Sorry Joe!
I should have pointed out that the PC installer will have a Windows version of the tutorial that is appropriate. We made a couple of tweaks to customize Mac and PC. The command you point out as well as the position of the "Sun" is modified.

Good catch. Sorry about that!
Mike Curtis, TechSmith

The tutorial is ok as far as it goes, but there are a few basics that could be added to help:
- Annotation - boxing an item, adding an arrow, and adding text
- Settings
- History

I know - this is just a first start. But as nice as it looks, you should go further with it!

I agree with Kathy to a degree. For this demo I'd add an arrow and/or text box.

Can this type of interactive creativity be added to Camtasia Studio. I would like to create some content like this.

AWESOME!!! Love it!

Tutorial was helpful to me as a near-novice.

This sounds stupid, but I did not realize that you could *select* the capture area.

Something about the crosshair tool implied to me that you could only position the tool in the upper left and take everything to the left and down.

I didn't think to try selecting and so never found it.

I agree with the posters above that there are better examples. It would be silly to send a static map of a location when you can send a link to an online mapping service and allow the person to get directions, see the street itself, etc.

Perhaps sharing part of a picture ... then using an arrow or text to help the friend see a specific items that is hard to see?

@John Kirk: Camtasia can't do this type of stuff right now (or only limited with flash hotspots), but I'll forward it as a suggestion to the Camtasia Product Manager.

@everyone: Thank you for all the feedback and suggestions so far, they are really helpful. We'll definitely consider these as we go forward and tweak the tutorial.

If you have any other thoughts on the tutorial, we'd love to hear those as well.

Good first attempt for someone unfamiliar with Jing.

Sorry Guys... Meant to say Good first attempt... Video will be good for someone unfamiliar with Jing.... It's been a loooooong day.

This game/tutorial was MUCH more useful than the step by step intructions. I would strongly suggest placing it on the top of the download page. I almost threw in the towel on spending anymore time on this until I discovered this tool. I spent about an hour trying to figure it out through the steps, and less than one minute on the tutorial.
Thanks, cp

You know, I had put a new picture up for my desktop - a cartoon-ish, bright orange background with some little characters running around with a dragon head, for Chinese New Year. It wasn't until I accidentally moused over the sun and it zoomed out that I went, "HEY! What's that thing doing there?"

I had installed Jink when I was looking for some other software to help me make a presentation for work (Scared people on my team half to death, I think, with my threats of NO BULLET POINTS)... didn't have time to really look at it then but installed it so it'd be there when I came back to it.

When I did come back to it this week, I was thinking there'd be this huge learning curve... not... but if there were a way to incorporate the tutorial so that the first time you start it up you have the option to run through it, I think it'd be FANTASTIC. The tute itself is great (although I guess I'd tend to agree with the posts about jinging a map being kind of ho-hum) and I'd MUCH rather have seen that first than to have had to dig through the web site. Seriously.

Under 2 Minutes, And You've Got It.

What could be more elegant than that? (Yes, elegant. I was paying attention during my Pascal course back in the dark ages.)

-Dani

P.S. I'm a teacher and I love the tutorial.

P.P.S. I can see this working hand in glove with the 'smart board' technology we use at school. Get it up on the board, screen capture, there ya go. Or video capture while you're explaining something. This could be fun!!

This game/tutorial was MUCH more useful than the step by step instructions. I would strongly suggest placing it on the top of the download page. I almost threw in the towel on spending anymore time on this until I discovered this tool. I spent about an hour trying to figure it out through the steps, and less than one minute on the tutorial.
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The ability to put interactivity into a tutorial is very important for learning retention and transfer to using the application outside the tutorial at a later date. Just watching something works for a short demo but not for a more complicated sequence on a computer application with multiple steps. I hope to see this ability to provide an interactive experience in Jing very soon. Do you have a date estimate?

On the cross hairs interaction, if you do it wrong it says you can do it again but you can't. Great interactivity in the other parts...

I am an instructional designer and look forward to building this interactity in online tutorials.