Specifications

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To upgrade Media Composer or Symphony
manually from a dongle to a software license:
1 Make sure your Avid Application Key dongle is
attached to your system.
2 Launch Media Composer or Symphony. The
Activation tool opens.
3 Select “I want to activate my software by phone
or by using another computer’s Internet connec-
tion.
”
4 Click Continue. The Avid Activation dialog box
opens, and lists the System ID from the dongle in
the System ID text box.
5 Enter your serial number in the Serial Number
text box. Use the serial number that you received
from Avid by e-mail.
6 If you are activating the software by phone,
call your local Avid Support Center. Avid Sup-
port Center contact information is available on-
line at http://www.avid.com/support/contact.
Your Avid representative provides an activation
code for your software. Once you have your acti-
vation code, proceed to step 12.
7 If you are using another computer to activate
your software, open a web browser on the second
computer and navigate to the Activation web
page at http://activate.avid.com.
8 Enter your machine identification number in
the Avid Machine ID text box. Your Avid Ma-
chine ID number is located on the Avid Activa-
tion Dialog box.
9 Enter your system identification number in
the System ID text box.
10 Enter your serial number in the Serial Num-
ber text box.
11 Click Submit. The Avid Activation page gener-
ates your activation code, and opens a page that
asks for a confirmation code. Do not close the
confirmation code page.
12 Transfer the activation code to the system you
want to activate. You can copy the code to a text
file and use a removable storage device such as a
USB drive, or you can transfer the data over your
network.
13 In the Avid Activation dialog box, enter the
activation code in the Activation Code text box.
14 Click Activate. The Activation tool confirms
your system information. When software activa-
tion is complete, a message informs you that
your software has been successfully activated.
15 Click OK. A confirmation code is displayed.
16 On the computer connected to the Internet,
enter the confirmation code, and click OK.
To upgrade Media Composer or Symphony and
continue to authorize the software with a dongle:
1 Make sure your Avid Application Key dongle is
attached to your system.
2 Launch Media Composer or Symphony. The
Activation tool opens.
3 Select “I am upgrading from a previous version
and would like to continue using my dongle.
”
If the Confirmation Code text box is not vis-
ible, click “Click here to enter your dongle
confirmation code.”
You can only activate your application with
a dongle if you are upgrading from an ear-
lier version of Media Composer or Sym-
phony to the current version and have a cur-
rent Avid service contract. In this case, the
dongle option is available in the Activation
Tool. If you received a dongle upgrader card
with your upgrade, please see the instruc-
tions in your upgrade kit.