Create And Share Videos FREE

Do you blog to make your living?  Have you ever struggled to get your point across to people when you’re talking to them?  How about when you’re WRITING to them?  Yes, getting your point across to your audience can be extremely difficult.  There is help at hand though.

New Service from TechSmith

TechSmith is the company that created (and continues to improve) the excellent screen-capture software called Camtasia.  Well, the company has now made available some very nice online software called Jing.

Jing’s main purpose is to allow you to more easily give feedback, explain your ideas with images and videos of what you’re doing on your computer, share information and collaborate on projects.

Free Version

There are two version, free and paid (of course!).  The free version allows you to capture whatever is happening on your computer and the file (images and video) is saved as a link.  So, whenever you are on skype, facebook, my space, twitter etc. you can simply send your audience (even if it’s only one person) a link.  When they click the link, the file will open and show them whatever it is you recorded.

The files can be opened in Screencast.com, but you can also upload them to your own FTP server or your Flickr account (if you have one that is).  So long as people can see what you created, that’s all that really matters.

With the free version, you also get 2GB of storage space on Screencast.com.

Features

Jing has several features that make the files you create even easier to explain, such as arrows, highlights and text boxes.  You can also configure Jing to create your own embed codes so that you can use them on your blog or other websites.

Of course, Jing also integrates with Camtasia Studio and Snag It, two of TechSmith’s excellent products.   This allows you to edit the files so that you can make the videos even better AND you can also add music should you so wish.

Paid Version

Don’t panic!  The pro-version is only $15 a year.  With it, you can even record YOURSELF (if you have a working web-cam of course) so that you can become the star of your own video.  This could easily be used as an internet marketing tool for making promotional vidoes, though its main purpose (currently) is for personal interaction.

Jing Pro provides higher quality files and (in my opinion) is easily worth the few dollars per year, AND with the pro version, you have the option to upload your video DIRECTLY to YouTube.  Your videos can also be saved and uploaded to all of the other video sites, such as Daily Motion et al.

Jing works with Mac or PC, so there are no limitations there.

Here’s the link again: JING

Luke.