My company purchased the MAGIX Movie Edit Pro to use in a standalone environment that cannot be connected to internet for security reasons. How can I activate the license in such an environment. Could I send your team the MAC address and you create a license file for me?
Hi and welcome to the user to user forums.
No magix staff present on the forums to help you with this.
Get in contact with Magix via the sales@Magix.net email address.
Ray.
Hi
Assuming you have bought and installed the program from disc - there should be an Activate Program offline link in the activation/registration dialog click this and follow through the instructions.
Using computer that is online to activate/register the program - you should then receive an activation code that insert into the offline computer program activation dialog.
If the program was not installed from disc then you will have to contact Magix as @CubeAce has commented and obtain a disc to install the rest of the program, this is normally done online.
John EB
Forum Moderator
On a related note, I had wondered somewhere else in this forum when the clock would start on my stand-alone install of MEP. I had bought a DVD version of MEP thru (yech) Amazon last January. But I didn't install it until March.
However, this week I have been receiving emails from Magix telling me that my 1 year "subscription" expires in a few days.
So apparently Magix starts the clock when one buys the program. Not when it is first installed. Which favors Magix and disfavors me.
Hi Mike
. . . . So apparently Magix starts the clock when one buys the program. . . . .
That is standard practice for most software as with other goods.
John EB
Huh - so beware if you give software as a gift to someone. (While I suppose it's true that a warranty starts when one buys a tangible good, software is a different animal. Specifically, Magix knows exactly when the product is first used/activated.)
Hi Mike
. . . . While I suppose it's true that a warranty starts when one buys a tangible good, software is a different animal . . . .
Substitute Support for Warranty and you are in the same position - a limited period for which you get updates to fix issues and support.
Depending on the software manufacturer support can be from 1 year to several depending on their policy - some software manufacturers only provide support for the 2 latest versions - Os's are different as they have 10 -15 years lifespans.
John EB
Hi,
There was another thread about this a year or so ago and the users indicated that they purchased for a third party (Amazon) and not only did the 1 year update service start upon activation not purchase date, activation was with a more recent version and it was locked in as the fallback version. Furthermore, Magix has no idea when the software was purchased from Amazon, only activated. So, I'm somewhat sceptical that the update service period/support would prior to activation.
Mike, check the expiry date in your account, don't go by emails or pop ups. What do you see there?
John CB
I think I remember that thread.
Hmm ... I've never checked my "account" before. I don't see an obvious way to do it from the forum. (Where I'm signed in.) I don't see an obvious way to do it from MEP. (I checked Help > About .)
Hi
. . . . I don't see an obvious way to do it from the forum . . . .
Your Magix account is on a separate domain - magix.com
Click the Account login icon top right of the home page
and log in with your email address and password used here.
The emails saying your account expires start about 1 or 2 months before the actual expiry date.
HTH
John EB
Ah, okay, thanks @johnebaker , that worked. Thanks.
It turns out that my MEP 2020 IS showing a Registration Date of March 2, 2020.
So all is almost right with the world here.
Except that Magix's emails to me are deceptive in that they tell me that my Registration was going to expire in "a few days." Not in one to two months.
As a side note, not all my Magix MEP's show on the Registration page. Old MEP 2015 is there. But not 2016. (And, of course, nothing about MEP 11, 17, MX, MEP 2013.)
Hi Mike
. . . . Except that Magix's emails to me are deceptive in that they tell me that my Registration was going to expire in "a few days." Not in one to two months. . . . .
Well in advance notice - though I think 1 month would be better - be prepared for more emails.
. . . . As a side note, not all my Magix MEP's show on the Registration page. Old MEP 2015 is there. But not 2016. (And, of course, nothing about MEP 11, 17, MX, MEP 2013. . . . .
That is odd if they were all registered to the same email address, all mine from MEP14 to date are showing.
John EB
Yep, they were all registered to the same email address.
Not a big deal.
FWIW mine are all shown, from MEP 11 onward, using my current email address which I changed a couple of years ago.
Terry
Maybe Magix doesn't like me? (A grammatical note: I notice that in the U.K., you all consider a company as a plural. Whereas we in the States consider a comany a singular. Hence, "Magix doesn't like me," as opposed to "Magix don't like like me." (Which hurts my ears.))
Hi Mike
On the grammatical note one of my school teachers was a pedant for correct use of tenses and verbs.
' don't ' and doesn't when misused really do jar/hurt the ears.
This is not only happening with English - my wife has noticed this with her native language in recent years.
John EB
@Scenestealer @johnebaker @pmikep
As painful as it may be, any language evolves over relatively short periods of time with the original meaning and use of words changing as well as the accepted use and spelling of those words.
I had to read a lot of ships logs from the 1800s and earlier a while back as well as documentation from shipyards. There was no standard spelling or use of English at all, let alone any understanding of some nautical terms. What I was taught in school has often been at odds with the spell check in use on my browser.
Language (from my viewpoint) is for the spoken word and as long as one can communicate the correct meaning across to the person listening, it has done its job. However, written down it does not take into account local variation in either dialect or the possible use of a word in a given context.
To me it's a wonder we ever communicate effectively with the written word at all.
Ray.
Hi Ray
We are getting well off topic here, however
. . . . To me it's a wonder we ever communicate effectively with the written word at all. . . . .
Reminds me of the Asimov (Foundations Edge) -
. . . . “I’m not sure you’ll believe this-- If I go by my analysis of the myths, there were several different, mutually unintelligible, languages on Earth.” . . . .
John EB
Asimov - one of the greats! I'm going to re-read the Foundation trilogy one of these days.
Terry
Funny how to my mind, the enlightened of today have feet firmly planted in both the past and future 😉.
Ray.
As to both past and future, we are rapidly fulfilling Orwell's 1984's Newspeak, where "He who controls language controls thought."
But I fear that I've already said too much.