TwistedLincoln
03-16-2006, 04:27 PM
I posted many of these questions in the "Canopus Report" thread, but my post was quickly buried in the rush of excited users talking about the new demo:)
I did some reading throught the Edius Pro 3 user manual PDF, and there is no reference to Product Activation. There is also no reference in the Edius Broadcast manual (only a reference to the hardware dongle). The only place I can find any info on activation is from the Edius help files, and they only mention it in reference to the Procoder Express software. Is this the only part of Edius that needs activation?
If not, could those of you who own the full product go into some detail about it? For example, after the 30 days for activation are up, will the entire Edius product stop working until you activate, or only certain features? With Vegas 6, I can live with activation because only Mpeg2 encoding and AC3 creation are disabled if you fail to activate. As I can do both functions with other programs, this isn't a big deal. So if I am ever denyed activation (because I've activated too many times, or because I need to re-activate over the phone in the middle of the night when no on is there, or because the company stops supporting the product, etc), I can still use most of the progam's features. If this is the case with Edius, I would certainly consider purchasing it.
Having read most of the posts on the Canopus forums regarding activation, there seems to be several users upset about it. Apparently there are several reports of the program kicking out your activation codes, even after you activate it, causing you to have to re-activate, and waste a precious activation (from what I've read, you can only activate 3 times before Canopus tells you "too bad for you"). Sadly, no one there seems to want to go into any detail about the actual activation process, and what is or isn't disabled if you fail to activate.
Can anyone spare a few moments to shed some light on this? I'm very excited about this product, and would gladly pay the $800-$900 for it, but only if I can be sure I can keep using it as I upgrade to new machines. I've read that version 4 is coming within the next month or so, so perhaps it will be more friendly in this area -- a hardware dongle only, perhaps? We shall see.
I did some reading throught the Edius Pro 3 user manual PDF, and there is no reference to Product Activation. There is also no reference in the Edius Broadcast manual (only a reference to the hardware dongle). The only place I can find any info on activation is from the Edius help files, and they only mention it in reference to the Procoder Express software. Is this the only part of Edius that needs activation?
If not, could those of you who own the full product go into some detail about it? For example, after the 30 days for activation are up, will the entire Edius product stop working until you activate, or only certain features? With Vegas 6, I can live with activation because only Mpeg2 encoding and AC3 creation are disabled if you fail to activate. As I can do both functions with other programs, this isn't a big deal. So if I am ever denyed activation (because I've activated too many times, or because I need to re-activate over the phone in the middle of the night when no on is there, or because the company stops supporting the product, etc), I can still use most of the progam's features. If this is the case with Edius, I would certainly consider purchasing it.
Having read most of the posts on the Canopus forums regarding activation, there seems to be several users upset about it. Apparently there are several reports of the program kicking out your activation codes, even after you activate it, causing you to have to re-activate, and waste a precious activation (from what I've read, you can only activate 3 times before Canopus tells you "too bad for you"). Sadly, no one there seems to want to go into any detail about the actual activation process, and what is or isn't disabled if you fail to activate.
Can anyone spare a few moments to shed some light on this? I'm very excited about this product, and would gladly pay the $800-$900 for it, but only if I can be sure I can keep using it as I upgrade to new machines. I've read that version 4 is coming within the next month or so, so perhaps it will be more friendly in this area -- a hardware dongle only, perhaps? We shall see.