Citrix Online - GoView Beta
A lot of you will have used Jing in some shape or form for recording actions on a screen. If you haven’t check out the link and get yourself a copy, it’s superb for documentation and how to video’s.
The other day I was catching up with Shannon Ma’s blog when I spotted a demo video he’d done using GoView. I decided to take a look and found out that it was actually a service being offered by Citrix online, I’ve had a little play around with it and have to say it’s pretty good.
Sign up for your free account complete with 1GB of storage and it will prompt you to install the Go View agent. This actively streams the audio and video back to the Citrix GoView servers during recording. Once your done you just click the agent and select stop recording, your immediately taken to a web page so you can save your recording with a title, notes and a password if necessary.
On the next screen you can view your recording, get a link to the video or get the code to embed the video in a website. You also get the option to edit your video, where you can easily cut out sections of the video and insert title pages, a great way of breaking a demo into sections. You can see a very quick demonstration of what it can do below.
So in summary it’s free, it’s easy to record, easy to edit and easy to share, a good alternative to the more expensive Camtasia. It is a Beta and that has to be remembered, when I first started using it I couldn’t play or edit my videos. Sometimes it goes slow and other times I get a message saying “Our servers need to take a rest, try again later” I suppose it is a beta after all. To Sign up for your free account or to view the Citrix demo video, just click on the links.
