HOW TO GET A SECOND ACTIVATION FOR YOUR CAPTURE ONE 21 LICENSE!
Hey, this concerns everyone who bought a capture one 21 license after 17.11.20.
Capture one has changed their licensing policy after that date and you get only ONE activation of your license instead of two. Since complaints in the community didn't help, I wrote an email explaining that I'm working with two devices (Desktop/iMac and Laptop/Macbook) and requesting a refund if they are not changing it back to two activations for everyone! That was their answer:
It seems that this change in a number of seats affects your workflow that's why as a matter of exception I have added one more seat to your license key.
Now you should be able to activate Capture One for Fujifilm on your second computer as well.
So I got my second activation and so will you! They can't just give it to me! Write them, referring to this post requesting a second activation or a refund. hey;ped in my case and I hope it does in your's. Fuck this corporate greediness!
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"HOW TO GET A SECOND ACTIVATION FOR YOUR CAPTURE ONE 21 LICENSE!"
By turning your CAPS LOCK off.
"Capture one has changed their licensing policy"
Yes. We know. Much discussed, and it should be no surprise to anyone.
"Fuck this corporate greediness!"
Ah - you must be looking for Capture One the charity. Wrong forum, I'm afraid...
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While his style of delivery leaves a little to be desired, he does have a point. Originally... about 2 years back, you used to get 3 seats for C1 Pro. This was reduced to 2 and if this is correct, C1 21 only allows for 1 then that is not great. Most people have an office/base and then a laptop for traveling so 2 seats was sort of essential.
This year was the first time for about 6-7 years I didn't upgrade as it didn't offer much to me and if the seating thing is correct, I'm glad I didn't.
Reducing seats to one per licence would likely mean I would look to remove C1 altogether. I say likely, because they do say on their website...
"While you can activate your Capture One Pro single-user license on up to 2 computers, it is exclusive to one user only. If you need a license for multiple users, a multi-user or Enterprise license could be for you"
Might be good if a member of C1 could clarify this conflicting info. Cheers
Luckily, I came up with a new workflow that combined LR mobile for processing images and C1 keywording only over the Christmas break. Works really well so may well stick with this, especially if C1 is only going to offer 1 seat per license.
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hey MG
keith is right you should post this better at DPR or fredmiranda, much bigger audience and far less egosistic a......s :-))
seems this is kind of damage control but c1 will be remembered as the software company hurting (young) professional in a year of crisis because this is the groupe which will be effected most not amateurs which will likely not use c1 on more than one computer anyway.
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Provided it is right and that you can only use it on one computer. Their website contradicts that message at the moment so clarification would be good... better that than misinformation being spread around the rest of the net.
If it is true... well, I can't see it going down well!
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I really don't get the point not to let a user work on as many computer as he wants, since he can just use one instance at time. I have a MacBook Pro and a Mac Mini (on which I have a big monitor), and they are almost mirrored, and it will be very annoying if I will have first to deactivate one license on one of the computers before using the other. As far as I know, this is the only software doing this.
I actually have a yearly subscription of CO for Nikon. I don't know if I will renew the subscription.
(Not to talk about the missing support for the Z6II that I will get next week, while every other software in the world is already supporting it).
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