I recently came across the Jing Project.  It is being setup by Techsmith (the folks that bring you Camtasia Suite for screen capping and creating wicked training vids).

The tool is cross platform (Windows and Mac – doesn’t look like linux is in the works) and allows you to create video and annotated screen captures and either save them (swf for video and png for pictures) locally for manual embedding in websites, attachments to emails, etc… or you can share them via a short URL to screencast.com (a user ID is required to store items).

Screencasting can be a very efficient method of creating training videos and How-To’s.

There are a number of products and projects out there currently that also allow you to capture your screen to video that are a little less easy to use though are nearly as equally functional.  I recently tried the "Ultra Screen Recorder" which is branched off of the UltraVNC GPL project.  UVNC is at it’s core a remote access tool (hence the VNC).  The project has built an accelerated video mirror driver which allows you to run a VNC console using less memory.  The other perk to this is that in using the mirror driver to aid in capture creates the same net effect.  High quality, full fram video without a tax on your CPU during capture.

Check these two out a let me know what you think of them.

Tags: jing, recording, screen capture, screencap, screencast, video documentation
Categories: Software

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