Okay to install Pro 11 (VMS upgrade) on 2nd PC?

GoRovers wrote on 5/26/2012, 4:30 PM
As a longtime VMS user I finally upgraded to Pro 11. I haven't installed it yet on my current PC, because I'd like to install it instead on a new HD editing-ready PC I just bought (Gateway FX6860-UR10P). My question: because this was a paid upgrade, will I encounter any problems during installation due to VMS not being on the new PC? (VMS will remain running on my 'old' PC.) Thanks in advance for your help!

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Geoff_Wood wrote on 5/26/2012, 6:11 PM
No, it should be fine. Each install is totally independent, and complete.

geoff
Jøran Toresen wrote on 5/26/2012, 6:22 PM
You can install Vegas Pro 11 on your current PC and your new PC. But you are not alload to run Vegas Pro 11 on both PCs at the same time.

Jøran
OldJack wrote on 5/26/2012, 6:35 PM
The last install will be the PC of record with Sony.
GoRovers wrote on 5/27/2012, 12:21 PM
Thanks for the responses. So after installing Pro on my new PC I should stop using VMS on my old PC, since the newer product was an upgrade?.
Jøran Toresen wrote on 5/27/2012, 1:26 PM
GoRovers: "So after installing Pro on my new PC I should stop using VMS on my old PC, since the newer product was an upgrade?. "

You can install and use both VMS and Vegas Pro on your old PC and you new PC. No problem at all. It does not matter if it's an upgrade or not.

But, you are not allowed to run / use Vegas Pro at the same time on two or more PCs. Or: Run Vegas Pro on you old PC. Quit editing. Run Vegas Pro on your new PC. Quit editing. Go back to you old PC and start editing.

Jøran
Steve Mann wrote on 5/27/2012, 6:10 PM
This is not legal advice, just a user's opinion from reading the Sony Creative Software license terms.

Sony's upgrade policies shine above all other software vendors. You get upgrade prices, but you now own two fully legal, licensed and registered versions of Vegas. You can put them on the same machine or on two different machines. You can even run them simultaneously since they are separate licenses. You can even sell your old license and the new owner gets registered with Sony. Some people keep multiple prior versions on their PC. All licensed and OK with Sony.

Further, Sony permits you to put a single licensed copy on two machines as long as you can't run them both simultaneously. This is mostly so that you can take a work in progress to a client without dragging your desktop along or getting screwed with hardware or software dongles (as in Avid and Adobe).

Name me any other software vendor with this generous a licensing policy.

On the downside, many plug-in developers still stick with the one computer-one license model, making it impossible to take a project on the road with a laptop because your only copy of BCC7 (for example) is on your desktop and their method of transferring to another PC is very obstructive and requires contact with a person at the mother ship. Impossible on the weekend.