Well, kind of. The guys behind the fantastic Camtasia Studio (techsmith) has released a fine free alternative which seems to be in beta at the moment. The product is called Jing and after play testing it for a while it seems to be very snappy. It can record video (into SWF files) or capture images. It can then send these up to Screencast (another Techsmith product/service), FTP to a location of your choice, post up to Flickr or save to file. It is very basic but because of this it is extremely easy to use.
For those of you who can’t afford camtasia , this is a very nice introduction and will probably meet the majority of people’s needs.
Jing can be downloaded from:
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Peter - Camtasia Guide
February 11, 2008
Hello Barry,
Jing is excellent, but it lacks the possibility of doing real editing of your files, plus a lot of other features that Camtasia has.
Barry
February 11, 2008
Very true but I did say this was a nice introduction. If you need the features of Camstasia then of course I’d recommend buying that. Jing is an interesting project and I will be watching to see how it evolves.