TechSmith’s screencast service Jing goes pro (DownloadExaminer.com)
TechSmith’s screencast service Jing goes pro
On Tuesday, TechSmith released Jing Pro, a paid premium version of its free screen capture and casting software. The new service, which runs $14.95 a year, upgrades videos to H.264 encoding, takes off the Jing watermark in the bottom corner of recorded clips, and gives users the option to upload directly to several popular video hosting sites including Facebook, YouTube, Viddler, and Vimeo.
Of the news, one of the biggest changes is the move to the MPEG-4 AVC video format. It’s the go-to format for iPods and iPhones, as well as set-top boxes like the Apple TV and TiVo. Likewise, it’s been adopted by YouTube, which makes a separate encode for each file for Flash players and hardware that run H.264 clips. This means that going forward your screencast may end up being able to be watched on a wider range of devices.
On the export front I’m a little surprised TechSmith is offering such a simple way to offload captured videos to third-party hosting sites. It’s really nice, but will no doubt cut into potential revenue from people who might have paid the extra cash for the company’s video hosting sister product, Screencast.com. This service has a higher cap on its file size (2GB up from most service’s 1GB max), but limits how many people can watch your content to 2GB of streaming video.
In addition to the launch of Jing Pro, TechSmith put up a new support site called the Jing Help Center, which has a handful of how-to videos and support documents. This is available to both free and pro users.
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A quick talk with Scott Cook, booth babe and Intuit co-founder
Intuit founder Scott Cook demos new TurboTax for Mac at MacWorld.
(Credit: Rafe Needleman / CBS Interactive)
I spied Scott Cook, a founder and former CEO of Intuit, which makes Quicken and Quickbooks, at his company’s Macworld booth, giving demos just like any booth worker. That was curious–you don’t see big company billionaires mingling with consumers in a frenzied trade show environment too often (although you should). So I snared him for a quick interview about his booth duty and the plans for Intuit overall.
Regarding hanging out with The People, Cook simply said that it’s a great way to get customers to talk to him for free (versus paid surveys, I assume) and that it’s good to hear what you are doing wrong (as a Quicken for Windows user, I could give have given him an earful, but time was short). He also likes to see how his team presents to customers.
On Intuit’s overall strategy, Cook says Intuit is pursuing a strategy based around online and mobile access to financial data. U.S. consumers spend $7 billion a year in overdraft feeds, he says, and there’s no excuse for that when your phone could alert you when you’re about to over-extend yourself. Thus Quicken Beam and Quicken Online (which recently got a refresh) as well as an online version of the small business app Quickbooks. There’s also an online version of TurboTax that will compute and file your federal taxes for free. State returns are extra, though.
Quicken Mobile gives you quick visibility in your basic financial position.
(Credit: Rafe Needleman / CBS Interactive)
At the same time, Intuit seems to be renewing its commitment to standalone apps, or at least to the Mac. Quicken for Mac is being retired in favor of a newly-built financial management app called Financial Life, now in a very early public beta. It looks, at first glance, like a nicely designed version of Quicken, simpler to get in to than the company’s traditional software. (On Windows, Quicken 2009 looks like a typical upgrade for Intuit from Quicken 2008: a few new features, but according to user reviews, lacking needed reliability improvements.)
Yet despite Cook’s mission to offer holistic financial suites for its users, Intuit is not yet delivering on integration between its products. For example, if you use Quicken Mobile to update your Quicken Online account, that data won’t make it into your Quicken software installation on your personal computer. And data files cannot be shared between Mac and Windows installations.
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