Comments on: ThumbGenie 1.1.0 Now Generates Embed Code

By: Brooks

Brooks — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 14:12:02 +0000

@Sebastion – Sounds like a “reset to default” button is in order. In the meantime you can download the default embed code template from here: http://www.brooksandrus.com/resources/thumbgenie_default_embed_template.txt.

As far as audio goes, Jing only records from the microphone input (unless you use something like Soundflower on the mac). So if you’re on Windows and don’t have a built in mic, you’ll need to plug a microphone of some sort into your sound card. Once you’ve got a mic, you don’t need to worry about codecs. Jing Free encodes audio using ADPCM. Jing Pro encodes audio using AAC. Playback of both codecs is supported by nearly all media players including Flash Player.

By: Sebastien

Sebastien — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 17:14:04 +0000

Other question, what audio format do you use, cause I can’t hear any audio when I try to play my video, the video is working, but I tried a lot of codec and none are working for the audio

tks

Seby

By: Sebastien

Sebastien — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 15:34:14 +0000

Hi, I lost the original embed code that were generated the first time I’ve installed your software. Now I tried something and lost your code.. How do I recover it?

tks

Seby

By: Chris Sciora

Chris Sciora — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 15:57:18 +0000

Hmmm, it didn’t seem the embed window would take focus over the video window. Not a big deal, I just typed in the two different flavors for now.

Why did you decide to publish Jing videos with Kimili + Flash wrapper instead of a video player that supports playing mp4 directly?

I tried using Kimili without the player.swf wrapper (actually overlayplayer.swf), but only got sound with a blank screen. Not all of my screencasts are done in Jing and it would be nice to use the same blog publishing technique for all of them.

By: WillsWords

WillsWords — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 19:24:05 +0000

You might want to change the name of ThumbGenie. It is a wonderful tool, but ThumbGenie is also used by another (cough) site. Google ThumbGenie and you’ll see why. :-/

By: Brooks

Brooks — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 15:43:52 +0000

@Chris – right click and choose copy / paste in the embed template window. Right now ThumbGenie watches the keyboard shortcuts for copy / paste and thinks you’re trying to paste a video from the clipboard into the viewable area. I need to change that so that when the embed code window has focus those shortcuts “just work” as expected for text.

I’ve actually got a better model in mind for multiple templates (current template implementation was just sort of a stop gap)….sounds like I need to get motivated. ;-)

By: Chris Sciora

Chris Sciora — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 22:40:00 +0000

Great job with Thumb Genie. It definitely makes the workflow process between WordPress and Jing *much* easier. One suggestion (maybe it’s already there?) is allowing copy/paste into the Embed Template window.

That would make using multiple templates much easier. Right now, it looks like everything needs to be typed manually each time. And perhaps an explicit save button for those changes, since closing a window normally discards any changes. It’s a bit counter-intuitive that it saves them.

Cheers,
Chris