Comments on: Resizing embedded screencasts with TechSmith Jing

By: r-a-y

r-a-y — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 23:06:53 +0000

Thanks for this!
Just ran into this issue.

By: Graham King

Graham King — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 01:07:57 +0000

At time of writing, if you substitute bootstrap.swf with jingswfplayer.swf in their embed urls, your screencast will finally scale correctly.
Don’t bet your company on it though.

By: Concerned User

Concerned User — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 22:02:09 +0000

What gives? What happened yo? I be needing my resized videomajigs.

By: Ben Nadel

Ben Nadel — Fri, 08 May 2009 14:12:39 +0000

I just tried to download the ASV demo and I get all kinds of warnings when I open up my SWF file. Also, under utilities, there is not View/Edit Constants option. Perhaps the new AVS is not compatible with the latest Jing videos?

By: Mo Flanagan

Mo Flanagan — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 18:34:51 +0000

Just an FYI, I purchased Jing yesterday (April 7th, 2009) and the issue doesn’t seem to be resolved – changing the embed code size still clips the video instead of resizing it. Maybe Tony Dunckel could comment on this?

By: Brian Layman

Brian Layman — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 16:42:28 +0000

If you don’t have a compare, is there any chance you could make a 1 second all white screencast and then perform this fix on it and then email them too me? I don’t have the tools to do this but if I can see the changes, I can possibly write a delphi program that will modifify the binary appropriately. A one step process would be great, but I need to know how to identify the code that must change. I can even make it a drag and drop operation where you just drop the file on the icon and a new resizable one will be created by streaming the old file into a new file flipping the switch along the way. I just don’t have any way to find where that switch is hiding in the raw file.

Any help that you could provide in getting me before and after files would be great! A short file would be cool as your tool may change more than just the switch and I would prefer having a really small amount of changes to search through. However any before and after files you have laying around would be fine too. Even if it is just a long swf sitting on your desktop, I would likely find the area of the file I need as I suspect the change would be in the header or tail of the file.

Thanks for your time and effort. Again this was a good find on your part.

By: Brian Layman

Brian Layman — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 19:59:25 +0000

I don’t suppose you have done a binary compare between the b4 and after. It sure would be neat if we could hex edit these bad boys change a 01 to an 03 or something and have done with it… I’m not so sure about the $80 output either. Though I hate to re-record what I’ve already done…

By: Luis Benitez

Luis Benitez — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 00:42:14 +0000

Thanks for the post!!! This is really helpful, though I wish there was a free way to do this as well.

@Tony, that’s FANTASTIC news!!!! I can’t wait for the next release of Jing… Love it!

By: Tony Dunckel

Tony Dunckel — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 19:44:27 +0000

I wanted to touch base everyone that this has been addressed and will be available in our next release, along with some other very exciting features. I appreciate you pointing out a temporary work around and please know we recognize the inconvenience this causes and are working quickly to make amends.

Kind Regards,
Tony Dunckel
Product Manager
The Jing Project

By: Kenny

Kenny — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 11:19:27 +0000

Great that I found this post as I want to do the same thing for a new SaaS app that we’ve released. The app just doesn’t look right when you squeeze it down too much, so I want to record at high res, then scale as you have done. My issue is that I’m not a Flash developer, thus I’m not sure I want to spend the $80(US) for the Action Script Viewer for the 1 or 2x that I need to do this.

Any ideas on how to get around this? or an alternative open source version?