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[Smarty]

Mark,

I find the humor in it, but mostly would consider it cautionary. Adobe,
Microsoft, and others have paved the road to hell with this process IMHO,
somehow making it more "legitimate" for smaller software houses to imitate.
The customer is the ultimate victim.

The progression of the Internet in most respects is just an ever worsening
sewer, and PCs are really being crippled by all of the virus, spyware,
firewall, and other ancillary software. The fact that production machines
must remain connected to activate is especially onerous with video editing
software, since there is so little reserve CPU capacity if any to begin
with. A modern NLE system is so busy defending itself against threats that
it sacrifices the essential performance of its' intended editing functions.
I sincerely hope that the professional NLE products don't go this route. So
far these higher end NLE guys mostly seem to have resisted the trend.

Oh well........



"Mark Burns" <marcus520520@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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[quote]Smarty:

This is most humorful, or humorless depending on one's mood:

http://www.gripe2ed.com/scoop/story/2005/3/8/0483/05937

I had remembered this story, which is why we haven't upgraded to Adobe
7 and went looking for s substitute. I don't know if they have fixed
it or not, but I just don't have time for these issues.

Cheers...

Mark
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[Smarty]

Mark,

Well, for whatever it is worth, the Video Studio 9 and associated add-ins do
not, to my knowledge require this activation process, so you may have a shot
at a download and install / re-install using purely the serial number, as
has been the tradition with Ulead since day 1. At least my version did not,
although it was purchased and installed several months ago, and they may
have subsequently revised their installer / procedures.

Public backlash to these methods has been less than enough to change the
policy of Microsoft as far as I know, but perhaps smaller companies like
Pegasys, Ulead, etc. will succumb to user commentary and criticism. I never
thought I could ever get to the stage where the notion of using a hardware
"dongle" would appeal to me, but it does offer physical, local activation /
authentication in a way that the Internet never can rival.

The most amazing thing to me is that so many people seek out cracks and
warez for these $50 and $60 programs. They are dirt cheap at these prices,
and should not be stolen at any price but especially when they are so
reasonably offered to begin with.

Smarty


"Mark Burns" <marcus520520@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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[quote]Smarty:

It says something in there about a stolen activation code.

This raises questions. Is the activation code tied to the machine via
mac address, cpu type, etc... like Microsoft? Why is the stolen
activation code important?

If I were implenting such a dasterdly scheme, why would I do this if I
wasn't trying to ensure that unauthorized users were not going to use
the code elsewhere.

We can only raise hell with them. I am sure that they are tired of
seeing their software activation numbers show up on the
crack sites, but am not sure that this won't be publicly cracked as
well. One is still changing the system to say that the computer is
registered. The code has been given to the user on the computer.
Someone will be monitoring this. It is a challenge. They can crack
the software with a program such as Soft-Ice or just watch the hard
drive/registry/network for differences and traffic. I have heard that
the TDA AC-3 plug-in has been hacked (from their own website), which
indicates to me that this is not new. And it requires periodic
activation! (But it is cheap)

Oh well, you and Alpha had just about convinced me to try ULEAD. I
have a crippled version that came with my burner that I was going to
upgrade. I will not buy in this case. I have stopped all corporate
purchases of Adobe Writer because they have gone to that scheme. We
are now using a cheaper substitute that is more than we need for most
cases. Alpha had mentioned some problems with Adobe's new scheme. I
just like to avoid that company. Do like the free Acrobat Reader
though. I am sitting on version five however.

Here is a company that I like: www.serif.com They do business the old
fashioned way, send you a disk.

Here is how they market: http://www.freeserifsoftware.com/

You can download and use, for free, some of their older versions of the
software. I have used their desktop publishing software for over six
years. It is much cheaper than the Adobe Pagemaker counterpart with
the same features that I need. We have been very happy with it. Some
might like to use their free photo editing software. They simply trust
people to upgrade to their latest version and pay for it because they
like the product!

I have been thinking of trying their MoviePlus4 product for doing a
short little mpeg editing project. I haven't gotten past reviewing the
.pdf manual.

Cheers....

Mark
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[Netmask]

If the AVI file was a DivX file all you do is burn it in Data mode assuming
your DVD player plays DivX files.

"Pete Brown" <PeteBrown@nomail.com> wrote in message
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"Pete Brown" <PeteBrown@nomail.com> wrote in message
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Yes, I have Nero software and want to copy an .avi file from my pc hard
disc
onto a DVD and then view it on the telly.
How?
Thanks,
Pete


Engage Nero Vision Express 3. Import the .avi file. Create DVD with
menu. Write the same (encoding is automatic) to DVD. Play on the telly.
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TVM - yes, the trick was to use Nero Vision Express 3...easy peasy.
Thanks again,
Pete
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[John]

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