VEGAS Pro 18

Ragnar-Ydse wrote on 1/29/2021, 7:08 AM

Hi! I'm a sys.admin working in a upper secondary school in Trondheim, Norway. I recently bought 1 Sony Vegas 18 license for one of our teachers. The software is now installed and working fine on a workstation at our school. My question - is it possible for the same teacher to install and activate Sony Vegas on his work-laptop as well? Can one user install Sony Vegas on two different units/computers with the VEGAS Pro 18 Edit license?

 

Kind regards,

Ragnar Ydse

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RogerS wrote on 1/29/2021, 7:17 AM

It's actually called Vegas Pro 18 and is by Magix, not Sony now. The standard program license is valid for two machines, so a desktop and laptop would be fine.

Dexcon wrote on 1/29/2021, 7:19 AM

@Ragnar-Ydse  ... where did you buy Vegas Pro from? You've used the product name Sony 3 times in your post, yet Sony sold Vegas Pro to MAGIX nearly 5 years ago. The last version of Sony Vegas Pro was 13. Usually these days, the only websites selling Sony Vegas Pro 18 are pirate scam websites,

https://www.vegascreativesoftware.info/us/forum/sony-vegas-vs-vegas--119881/

If you have a legal version of Vegas Pro 18, then Vegas Pro 18 (though not 365) can be activated on 2 computers at the same time. See point 9 in https://www.vegascreativesoftware.info/us/forum/vegas-pro-faqs-and-troubleshooting-guides--104787/

Cameras: Sony FDR-AX100E; GoPro Hero 11 Black Creator Edition

Installed: Vegas Pro 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21 & 22, HitFilm Pro 2021.3, DaVinci Resolve Studio 19.0.3, BCC 2025, Mocha Pro 2025.0, NBFX TotalFX 7, Neat NR, DVD Architect 6.0, MAGIX Travel Maps, Sound Forge Pro 16, SpectraLayers Pro 11, iZotope RX11 Advanced and many other iZ plugins, Vegasaur 4.0

Windows 11

Dell Alienware Aurora 11:

10th Gen Intel i9 10900KF - 10 cores (20 threads) - 3.7 to 5.3 GHz

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER 8GB GDDR6 - liquid cooled

64GB RAM - Dual Channel HyperX FURY DDR4 XMP at 3200MHz

C drive: 2TB Samsung 990 PCIe 4.0 NVMe M.2 PCIe SSD

D: drive: 4TB Samsung 870 SATA SSD (used for media for editing current projects)

E: drive: 2TB Samsung 870 SATA SSD

F: drive: 6TB WD 7200 rpm Black HDD 3.5"

Dell Ultrasharp 32" 4K Color Calibrated Monitor

 

LAPTOP:

Dell Inspiron 5310 EVO 13.3"

i5-11320H CPU

C Drive: 1TB Corsair Gen4 NVMe M.2 2230 SSD (upgraded from the original 500 GB SSD)

Monitor is 2560 x 1600 @ 60 Hz

Ragnar-Ydse wrote on 1/29/2021, 7:27 AM

Thanks! I wrongly used "Sony" because we currently have an older version of Vegas (called Sony Vegas - my mistake). I have not used the program myself :-). And the program is bought through over license partner and it is legit.

Dexcon wrote on 1/29/2021, 7:46 AM

@Ragnar-Ydse  ... btw and totally off topic, I have been to Trondheim but it was nearly 40 years ago and I loved it. And I now want to do a west coast small ship cruise of Norway's absolutely beautiful fyords and coast line - and Flam again of course. I went as far north as Narvik back then. Unfortunately, international travel is sadly not an option at the moment.

And I love the YouTube train driver cab views of Norway particularly those hosted by RailCowGirl - absolutely stunning. And I did travel on many of those rail trips courtesy of Eurailpass back in 1982: Oslo - Bergen; Oslo - Myrdal - Flam; Oslo - Trondheim - Bodo - Narvik and then east into Sweden. The season back then was middle autumn - around September.

Greetings from Australia. Cheers.

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Cameras: Sony FDR-AX100E; GoPro Hero 11 Black Creator Edition

Installed: Vegas Pro 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21 & 22, HitFilm Pro 2021.3, DaVinci Resolve Studio 19.0.3, BCC 2025, Mocha Pro 2025.0, NBFX TotalFX 7, Neat NR, DVD Architect 6.0, MAGIX Travel Maps, Sound Forge Pro 16, SpectraLayers Pro 11, iZotope RX11 Advanced and many other iZ plugins, Vegasaur 4.0

Windows 11

Dell Alienware Aurora 11:

10th Gen Intel i9 10900KF - 10 cores (20 threads) - 3.7 to 5.3 GHz

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER 8GB GDDR6 - liquid cooled

64GB RAM - Dual Channel HyperX FURY DDR4 XMP at 3200MHz

C drive: 2TB Samsung 990 PCIe 4.0 NVMe M.2 PCIe SSD

D: drive: 4TB Samsung 870 SATA SSD (used for media for editing current projects)

E: drive: 2TB Samsung 870 SATA SSD

F: drive: 6TB WD 7200 rpm Black HDD 3.5"

Dell Ultrasharp 32" 4K Color Calibrated Monitor

 

LAPTOP:

Dell Inspiron 5310 EVO 13.3"

i5-11320H CPU

C Drive: 1TB Corsair Gen4 NVMe M.2 2230 SSD (upgraded from the original 500 GB SSD)

Monitor is 2560 x 1600 @ 60 Hz

Reyfox wrote on 1/29/2021, 3:55 PM

Ok.... one more time. Here is a post with information that might help you. There are links there also.

https://www.vegascreativesoftware.info/us/forum/is-theere-any-discount-for-education--120852/#ca753065

fr0sty wrote on 1/30/2021, 2:23 AM

Yes, each VEGAS license can be installed on 2 machines. You can enable or disable activation on any machine on any time by logging into your magix account.

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Systems:

Desktop

AMD Ryzen 7 1800x 8 core 16 thread at stock speed

64GB 3000mhz DDR4

Geforce RTX 3090

Windows 10

Laptop:

ASUS Zenbook Pro Duo 32GB (9980HK CPU, RTX 2060 GPU, dual 4K touch screens, main one OLED HDR)

vkmast wrote on 1/30/2021, 2:28 AM

As the link in @Dexcon's comment says;

"There are 2 ways to deactivate a device so you can activate a different one:

Visit your MAGIX account > My Products > Show More Details > Deactivate. This option can be used only once a month.

From the VEGAS Pro Help menu choose Deactivate the Software on this PC. This option can be used as often as you wish. An internet connection is required."

Ragnar-Ydse9988 wrote on 2/1/2021, 4:45 AM

@Dexcon Nice to hear you had a fine stay in Trondheim and in the rest of Norway. My best holiday I actually spent traveling in your country for two months - starting in Darwin, going south trough Alice Spings to Adelaide and then all the coastal road north from Melbourne to Sidney, Brisbane, Gold Coast ending in Cairns :-)

Thanks for all your answers!