Creating Professional Screencasts With Jing Pro and iMovie
Posted by brooks in Screencasting on Apr 9th, 2009 | 7 commentsIn the past I’ve shown examples of the type of compelling screencast content you can create with the combination of Jing Pro and iMovie. Today, I’ve created a quick tutorial (7:30) that illustrates how to do the following in iMovie:
- Import Jing video.
- Create and select clips.
- Add transitions.
- Use lower thirds.
- Introduce your screencast with a title clip.
- Create credits.
- Export an HD MPEG-4 video.
Go fullscreen 
to see the video in full 1:1 pixel clarity.
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In the video I incorrectly indicate you should “optimize for download” in the QuickTime video export settings. Instead you should select “optimize for streaming.”
Man… thanks for this. I was pulling my hair out trying to figure out how to get a high quality video out of my Jing screencast. This was super-helpful.
One more thing… Once I uploaded my mp4 to screencast.com it wouldn’t actually stream, it waits for the full movie to download before playing. Did you need to take any additional steps to include mpeg 4 hinting?
Sounds like you need to check the “Prepare for Internet Streaming” box in the iMovie / QuickTime export window:
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will it work without jing pro cause i cant seem to get it to open, it is gray instae of black. how can i fix this and where do i save my recordings to?
@samuel – Unfortunately, no. The free version of Jing creates movies using the SWF format. This format is unsupported by iMovie. Jing Pro allows you to create MPEG-4 AVC video files (MP4) which work well with typical video tooling including iMovie.
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