Answer ID 455:

Question
Can I run my Sony Media Software application on more than one PC?

Answer
Our licensing agreement permits you to install the software on as many machines as you own, as long as you are not running the programs at the same time. For instance, you can install the software on your home machine and on your laptop. You are not allowed to install the software on multiple machines if you are going to be using them simultaneously, such as in a home studio setting. If you are going to run the software concurrently on more than one machine, you would need to purchase a separate license for each computer.

Note that when you install the software on a different computer you will need to complete the registration process again. Register the software as you did the first time to unlock the program on each machine.

FYI-
I just upgraded my computer and tried to install Vegas on the new machine. I had a bugger of a time dealing with missing plug-ins (or was it the migration of my license to use the plug-ins?) Whatever the cause, the result was when I opening projects on the new machine, none of them had the standard plug-ins on the audio tracks. Even a new project wouldn't have the default Noise Gate-EQ-Compressor plug-ins. So, it would probably be wise to search this forum extensively for terms like "migaration tools" and "missing plug-ins" BEFORE you make the move to a 2nd machine. Also, on the Sony site under "Downloads, Utilities" there's pre-set manager software to make sure you can bring all your pre-sets over from the other machine and, I believe, it will also re-register your DirectX plug-ins. I'm not sure which of these did the trick for me, but after 5-6 hours of installing, uninstalling, re-installing, searching, migrating, registering and re-registering (and swearing, I might add) I finally got everything back in order. The experience was very frustrating and confusing, though, and not the kind of thing you want to get stuck on in the middle of a 3-day weekend with no live support.

Dono, i find that rather odd on two counts. First, i've installed Vegas on many computer. It doesn't matter if you're doing a second or third install of the same license or if you're installing multiple licenses, all the default plugins come "in the package" when you install. The problems you had are not due to any licensing issues. You don't need to migrate the default plugins from one installation to another. I'm not sure what went wrong with your installs, but it had nothing to do with the fact that it was a second install of the same license.

Second, you'll find many posts in this forum from users asking how to disable the default track plugins. Most folks would have been happy to have an install that didn't have them in place! I think yours is the first case i've seen of someone actually wanting them. That being said, it's very easy and only takes a few seconds to add them back in as default plugins if they're not there. Open up the plugin chainer, add the effects you want (it doesn't even have to be the default three; you can choose any you wish), then right-mouse-button click on the track header and choose "set track defaults". Most of us use this procedure to remove the three default plugins though.

Chienworks-
The reason you find this odd on two counts is because you've made incorrect assumptions on two counts.
Count #1- I said my problem was with missing plug-ins and I wasn't sure what the cause was.
Count #2- I never said I missed the default track plug-ins, I said that even THEY were missing.

The fact is that the plug-ins were not on the list when I opened the plug-in chainer and, consequentially, any saved project I opened was also missing whatever audio plug-ins were saved with them (and they opened with a message saying something about licensed plug-ins that were in the projects not being available).

That's what led me on my wild goose chase about license migration.

I've since learned that the problem is most likely due to the fact that I uninstalled v5 after v6 was installed and for some reason the uninstall automatically removed several audio plug-ins. In fact, here's a post from May of this year that sounds very familiar:
"I have been running with both 5 and 6 on on PC for awhile now. Decided to uninstall 5 . Lost several audio plugins. The Sony track EQ is missing now".

In all of the Vegas installs you've done on many computers, did you ever uninstall the previous version? If so, did you encounter the same problem?

Does anyone know if this means we're supposed to keep the previous version(s) of Vegas installed on our machines? If not, can anyone explain why removing v5 would take the plug-ins with it?

I think the issue lies in the fact that (some?) audio plug-ins are kept in a folder called Shared Plug-Ins within the Sony directory. I suppose so that they're available to any other Sony products you have on your system (Sound Forge, for example). By contrast, video plugins are in Sony / Vegas [version number] / Video Plug-Ins. So, if you have have both versions installed, 6.0 has its own video plug-in folder, and 5.0 has its own video plug-in folder. But they share the audio plug-in folder. I guess that, maybe, when you uninstall Vegas 5.0, the uninstall tool doesn't check to see if you have another version installed. (Hm. I wonder if it checks for Sound Forge, etc?)

At any rate, you can get the Shared Plug-Ins folder back by just re-installing Vegas 6.0.

Rob