Jing Pro: The First Paying Customer
Posted by brooks in Jing on Jan 6th, 2009 | 8 commentsWhoot! I’m stoked to claim bragging rights as the very first paying customer for Jing Pro. That’s right for a modest $15 bones a year you can get some real time MPEG4-AVC (h.264) recording and transcoding goodness sans branding and I beat all you people to the punch! Slackers!! Ahem, well I did cheat and use insider connections, but its a dog eat dog world right. ;-)
Here’s the very first customer email to get sent out:
Finally some proof that it pays to know TechSmith’s Sales Manager Brian “Tour de” Lesperance (get a real golf game Tour):
It took a lot of effort by a lot of people to get this crazy little “what if” from a backyard project to full blow product–I’m just happy and proud to have played a small part. Thanks peeps–it was a fantastic ride (I’m affectionately flipping you all the bird right now). ;-)
If you want more info about Jing (free) or Jing Pro ($14.95 a year) check out Tony’s (Jing Product Manager) blog post or visit the various links sprinkled on this page.
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I got #10… if only my daughters had woke up a little earlier.
@MichaelM – Top ten is nothing to sneeze at especially since you didn’t cheat and get sales involved the day before. ;-)
[...] Jing launched the pro version of their video screen capture tool today and I was quick to sign up. It encodes directly to HD mpeg4 and manages to keep the quality super high and the size super small…nice job Jing! It’s a super handy way to quickly share ideas, demos, etc. [...]
Nice! I always like reading your blog my friend. I’m going to purchase also… Probably wont get such a prestigious ranking such as yourself.
Oh well, take care my friend! – Josh
My pleasure. With Jing selling itself around here hopefully I can find time to work on my golf game. :-) ~Tour
Hi,
I have the Windows and Mac versions of Jing Pro on my MacBook Pro (using Parallels). I’ve noticed a difference in the quality of MPEG-4 videos made with these versions: pixel blurring is evident on the MPEG-4 video made on the Mac. I don’t notice a difference between .swf videos.
View the following :
Screen capture Mac: http://screencast.com/t/8PtBDsAeeWB
Mac MPEG4 video : http://screencast.com/t/vyxFwLFXJH
WindowsXP MPEG4 video: http://screencast.com/t/o1vlvA62Ui
Screenshot comparison: http://screencast.com/t/Dol0lP27f
? any ideas about this.
Cheers,
Howard
@Howard – Mac Jing and Win Jing use different encoders made by different vendors. The Jing team has tried hard to make sure that output from either platform is “the same”, but you may notice softness or other subtle compression related artifacts that are the result of the different engines being used (Google around for comparisons of the various software encoding engines–there’s lots of info out there).
MPEG4-AVC is a lossy compression whereas SWF is a lossless compression. Because they are lossless SWF files will look sharper, but the recorder and transcoder will actually drop more frames (you’ll get jerkier videos when there’s motion) and file sizes will balloon when you’re recording full motion content. Personally, I use MPEG4-AVC because in general terms its the best codec for the most types of content and recording scenarios. It’s also an actual video format (SWF is not) which means its interoperable with video tooling.
However, in some edge cases SWF may be more appropriate when the highest possible quality is important and file size is not (be careful what you wish for here). This would not necessarily be true if Jing allowed granular control over the MPEG4-AVC encoding settings, but Jing is trying very hard to be quick and simple rather than an advanced tool.
@Josh – good to hear from you!! How long since you skipped out on the airline biz?