After Effects CS3 SWF Export Bug

Anyone know if After Effects SWF Export feature is broken? Every time I try to export a SWF file I just see this:

Any insights would be appreciated (I’m talking to you Steve Kilisky :) ).

Making Jing SWF Videos Auto-Start

If you are embedding Jing video content on your website sometimes its preferable to have the video autostart instead of showing the reflecting click to play thumbnail. If that’s the case, you just need to pass in a parameter via flashvars or the url query string. Here’s a Jing video sans audio which shows you a couple of different ways to accomplish this.

If you prefer screenshots here’s a couple that convey the basic idea.

Embedding Screencast.com Jing Content

If you’re looking to embed Jing content hosted on Screencast.com on your own site here’s a snapshot of how you would do with SWFObject:

Right now there’s no “nice” way to grab a uri to the swf file you’d like to embed, so you will need to “View Source” in your browser, do a search for “swf” and copy the long nasty url you find (similar to the what the red arrow above is pointing at).

If you’re looking for “simple object / embed tags for Jing content on Screencast.com rather than the more sophisticated SWFObject content here’s a screenshot:

http://www.screencast.com/t/A1EpawUcmbr

If you just want to copy and paste embed tags–Screencast.com provides those, but you have to explicitly share the media. Watch the video below to see how:

Here’s what the WordPress Kimili Flash embed plugin code looks like (the embed code used for the embedded Jing swf directly above):

Jing Sans “Sun” GUI On OS X

If you’ve tried the Jing Rich Recording Client on OS X and the novelty of the Sun UI glob has worn thin it’s super simple to set up a shortcut key and turn the UI off entirely (a Jing menubar icon with three items will appear on the right hand side of the menu bar near the Spotlight icon). The keyboard shortcut launches the selection cross hairs for instantaneous recorder access, while the menu bar icon provides quick and easy access to the “History” manager and the “More” panel. I’ve made a simple Jing video sans audio that walks you through how to nix the gui.

The Jing Project – TechSmith’s Cross-platform Simple Screen Capture and Recording Now Available for Free Trial Period

Every once in a while you get to work on a project with the potential to be a game changer in the industry; something that can change people’s lives; a revolutionary technology that may fundamentally change the way we communicate with each other. I’m proud to announce that I was able to contribute in a small way to such a project. Today, Jing, TechSmith’s new simple sharing screen capture / recording tool and hosting service, is available to the general public as a trial “project”. Jing consists of two parts:

• A rich recording client for the Mac OS X or Windows Platforms
• A media hosting service

For the next little while TechSmith is providing the recording client and a media hosting account for free. So get out there and download the client and let me know how far off my hype was from your actual user experience.

Check out this video made by TechSmith’s Chris McQueen if you would like just a little bit more information before you download.