Techsmith has just announced a premium version of Jing – Jing Pro. Features include the ability to record using MPEG-4, which means much higher quality (here's a very pretty example – compare that to the last video you saw on YouTube!), smaller video files, the ability to upload directly to Youtube, and the ability to strip the Jing logo from your finished product. Cost for Jing Pro is $14.95 / year.
But there's also still Jing "free" as well, sporting a couple of new features such as adding and customizing buttons for different output options (like Flickr), and the ability to resize the video using the embed code. Small but useful tweaks.
Remember that Jing is available for Mac and Windows, though Jing Pro does require a better machine for the MPEG-4 encoding:
Windows
- Windows XP or Vista
- Microsoft .NET Framework 3.0
- 3.0GHz Pentium 4 processor
- 1GB RAM
Mac
- Mac OS X 10.4.11, or 10.5.5 or later
- QuickTime 7.5.5 or later
- 2GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processor
- 2GB RAM
Haven't played with Jing Pro yet myself, but hope to soon!
Comments
3 Responses to “Jing Pro and Jing Free”
May i suggest another screencasting tool ?
ScreenToaster – http://www.screentoaster.com
ScreenToaster is a free web-based screen recorder designed to capture screen activity in real-time then embed videos in blogs and websites. It works in all browsers and doesn’t require any download.
– Live audio capture
– Embed webcam in screen capture
– Subtitles
– Accelerated or slow-motion playback / Pauses
– Upload to Youtube
– Download your screencast in .avi
What bloggers say about ScreenToaster:
Techcrunch, Michael Arrington : “The ease of use is just awesome. It takes literally seconds to create and publish a screencast.”
Digital Inspiration, Amit Agarwal: “ScreenToaster Does a YouTube for Screen Videos.”
Go2Web20, Orli Yakuel: “So right now, ScreenToaster is the best choice that you’ll find, and the results are very good. Seriously, I couldn’t find any reason not to use it. Overall, you’ll save yourself time & money.”
ReadWriteWeb, Frédéric Lardinois: “ScreenToaster is definitely a contender for being one of the best and easiest to use tools available.”
Mashable, Jennifer Van Grove: “We think ScreenToaster is an excellent solution that brings advanced screencasting options to all levels of computer users. … It’s a safe option to recommend to clients, friends, and family members.”
Master New Media, Robin Good: “And again, more than anything else ScreenToaster is by far the simplest and most immediate screncasting tool to use out there. If you want to know what I think, here it is: ScreenToaster is going to toast them all. Seriously.”
Thanks Rudy – it’s already on my list of tools to give a deeper look at 🙂
Great thing about Jing Pro is that you can train lots of people to record library processes with Jing, then save tehm to a local drive as mp4. Load the mp4 into Camtasia and do blurs, zooms, etc, the editing to make it look that much sharper. Subdivision of labour.