TechSmith has been offering Jing free for many years, and I’ve been using it for most of them, along with Snagit and Camtasia. Both of these record in various formats, which avoids video conversions if necessary. If you wish to take screen capture still and video further, I highly recommend Techsmith’s Snagit and Camtasia Studio, exceptional and affordable tools that will prove invaluable for serious bloggers and online teachers. Jing is free and fabulous, and often enough for most bloggers. Screencast videos maybe saved to Techsmith’s popular site for sharing and limited storage. There is even the Tech Support to help you out if you get stuck. Jing is simple to use, and there are excellent Jing Tutorials to take you through the process step-by-step. Within a few seconds or minutes, you have screenshots or screen capture videos to add to your posts, enriching the content you share on the web. You may wish to edit the video to add more features, voice overs, captions, etc., in your video editing software. YouTube no longer accepts SWF formats, so you will need to convert the video format before uploading, though many video editing programs accept SWF formats. There are many free online video converters to convert from SWF to MP4 or other formats if you need. Jing videos are limited to five minutes and are in SWF format. Redo: Need to start over, Jing makes it quick and easy with the Redo feature.History: Jing saves a collection of the most recent screen captures just in case you need to revisit them.Once complete, you may share the video via Screencast, or save it to your computer for another usage or editing. Capture Video: The Capture Video feature begins by exploring your audio and microphone setup for voice over while recording, then gives you a very short countdown before the screen capturing begins.When ready, choose to save, share via Screencast, or copy if you will be pasting the image into your graphic program or PowerPoint or similar slide show that accepts copy and paste images and graphics. It is a little tricky as you have to select which feature you wish to add, then select the color, repeating this every time you make a change. Capture Image: The Capture Image feature includes highlighting, boxes, and adding text to the image. When ready, click Capture Image, Capture Video, Redo, or Cancel.Note the space size numbers change as you make adjustments. After removing your finger from the left mouse button, you may click and drag the orange border bars to adjust the captured image space.Draw a box around whatever you wish to capture.To take a screenshot or video, move your mouse over the yellow ball and it will expand to give you three choices: Capture, History, or More (Settings and other features).The yellow half circle might be annoying at first, but you will soon ignore it or lose it among your other colorful screens. You can move it anywhere you wish along the edges if it gets in your way. Once installed and started, a small ball of yellow sunshine will sit along the edge of your computer monitor. Example of a screenshot of the WP-Admin > Media screen using Jing.Download and install Jing.
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