I have mentioned Jing and it’s uses several times in the past, and today TechSmith announced the availability of Jing Pro.  Jing is an application that lets you take screenshots, record video, add edits, and share it in several different formats.  It’s perfect for anyone wanting to create screencasts and screenshots.

Jing Pro offers those features plus:

• YouTube support. You can upload a video to YouTube directly from Jing. Jing also gives you the link to your video.

• For screencasts, in addition to the SWF file format, Jing Pro now offers a H.264/MPEG-4 AVC format video option. Without getting too technical, this format excels at capturing video with a lot of motion, is much more suited for editing, and is supported on YouTube. And, for those of you who have been wanting to tweak your Jing videos, you can now import them into Camtasia Studio 6 or iMovie to edit, merge or anything you want.

• Branding removal. At the end of a Jing Pro-produced video, there is no Jing logo and branding.

Jing Pro is $14.95 a year, but Jing will still remain free.