Have you been driven absolutely out of your ever-lovin’ mind, because you recorded a video using the fabulous and free Jing, only to discover that now you can’t convert it to MP4, Youtube, Amazon S3, or anywhere else because NOTHING will open Jing SWFs??

I know I sure have, and I’m sick to death of it. I looked high and low, and despite finding many programs that can indeed open and convert SWF files, NONE of them can open or convert a Jing SWF in specific.

So what’s the solution? Well it may come as no surprise that the ONE PROGRAM that can actually open a Jing SWF, is Techsmith’s own Camtasia Studio program. In fact in Jing, there’s a button you can click to “Edit in Camtasia” which will actually open the Jing SWF in Camtasia, convert it to an AVI, and then import that AVI into Camtasia for your editing/publishing pleasure.

But you don’t have to then output it with Camtasia. By default, the converted file will be stored in:

C:\Users\[YOUR USER NAME]\Documents\Camtasia Studio\

You can simply grab the AVI file, drop it into Handbrake or whatever else you’re using, and convert away.

The only downside here is that Camtasia Studio isn’t free. But there is a 30 day trial, and if you can’t afford to buy it and you’re clever you can run it in a sandbox forever and just keep using the trial endlessly.

I hope this helps someone else who’s been as frustrated by needing to convert Jing videos as I have been!

JVC

I wrote about this a little while back, but the matter at hand is getting closer and closer to reality (we have less than 2 weeks left!!) and it must be stopped!!

Please take a moment to look at the official stance from WordPress.org on this matter, and do what you can to help kill this insanity in its tracks.

No matter where in the world you are, if you’re reading this now then you use the internet, which means you could be affected in a big way by this really stupid and harmful regulation.

Jonathan

On Occasion when changing a domain to a different server, or when having just acquired a domain, you aren’t absolutely sure if the DNS is fully ready yet (referred to “propagated”) and want to actually be certain.

I was turned onto this service a week or two ago, which is a simple way to look up your DNS status from different parts of the world.  So, be sure… don’t guess that your URL may or may not be ready – KNOW for sure!

Jonathan