v14 Suite Sonicfire activation

HTP wrote on 3/10/2017, 4:27 AM

The serial number for Sonicfire that was provided with the Suite does not activate it. It is in fact the serial number to activate Sonicfire as a plug-in to VMS14.

Magix do not appear to be aware of this.

To get the plug-in to work first you have to activate Sonicfire. I was advised by Magix that since it is a "third party program" I'd need to contact Sonicfire's makers to get a serial number from them... Not impressed by this: if a program is provided as an inducement to buy the Suite, it should surely come with the necessary serial number.

As it turns out, SmartSound's support (support@smartsound.com) is rather good, they explained the provided serial number's plug-in application, provided a working Sonicfire activation number, and so all was sorted within 24 hours.

Sonicfire is an interesting gadget. I haven't checked out the pricing structure for new sound files, but I can see its potential.

Now, if only VMS could edit .m2ts video files, it would be just what I need. But it doesn't. So it isn't.

Apparently that's the subject of some update without a date. 🙁

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Cornico wrote on 3/10/2017, 5:09 AM

The serial number for Sonicfire that was provided with the Suite does not activate it. It is in fact the serial number to activate Sonicfire as a plug-in to VMS14.

Like you stated later on, this serial for the plugin activates the Sonicfire 6 that came with the suite version of VMS 14 and needs no support of Smartsound.

 

HTP wrote on 3/10/2017, 9:08 PM

The serial number for Sonicfire that was provided with the Suite does not activate it. It is in fact the serial number to activate Sonicfire as a plug-in to VMS14.

Like you stated later on, this serial for the plugin activates the Sonicfire 6 that came with the suite version of VMS 14 and needs no support of Smartsound.

 


Thank you for the observation.

The Suite includes the installation .exe for Sonicfire. The plug-in for VMS is activated within Sonicfire. To get to the plug-in activation menu requires activating Sonicfire. The Suite does not provide a serial number to activate Sonicfire. Magix told me that Sonicfire is "third party" software and there is no other option but to contact Smartsound.