![]() ![]() I wrote to Tech Support referring to the early announcement on Forum that dongle owner may be able to swap with a serial number. I expect, that BMD will come up with a solution for that.? Thats what my dealer told me,too.thats why I bought a dongle earlier. this is quite confusing, because blackmagic posted earlier, that the dongles can be changed to licence keys when Resolve 14 is released. ![]() Activation license keys will only ship starting from today's release but be sure to specify the activation license key during the transition if that's what you need. If you have not received it yet tell your reseller you would like the activation license key. Peter Chamberlain wrote:If you have the dongle already that will be your license key. Then run Studio with the dongle at home when an external monitor is connected anyway and need to apply noise reduction and reduce barrel distortion before a final render. I run the free version when I don't want a Dongle hanging off my laptop on the plane/in a coffee shop. Resolve 14 and Resolve 14 Studio can be installed fine simultaneously. At the very, very least, a Studio owner should be able to use the Resolve software at the same level of functionality as the free version even if they don't have the dongle connected. ![]() ![]() I'd even be fine with this de-authorizing my dongle. There really should be a solution where dongle owners can receive an activation code if they choose. There have been a few occasions where I have forgotten my dongle and therefore had to uninstall Resolve Studio, install the free version just to be able to do some work, and then re-install Studio once I had access to the dongle. Now that the software is no longer just considered a grading tool but is also firmly in the "editing" category, many people like my self are using it primarily on laptops. Dongles are fine for people who use Resolve on a stationary workstation. The market for second hand products does not go through official resellers.Andrew Welch wrote:This is a serious issue for me. I know people today say "you should buy only from an authorized reseller". I know I'll warn anyone I know looking to buy BlackMagic hardware and software. Paying customers like me and many potential customers will think twice before purchasing a "BlackMagic" labeled product since there is no effort made by the manufacturer to offer ways to ensure the product is real. At the end of the day, this not only hurts users of the product like me, but also BlackMagic. Hence a lot of people like me invested their money into a counterfeit dongle. BlackMagic assumed that paying customers did not need visual means of recognizing a real from a fake dongle. So any dongle recognized by the software had to be genuine. Until a month ago, there was no information published by BlackMagic about the font and color used on their dongle. There is no overt protection allowing the customer to validate the real product against a copy, aside from the fact that the software does not work without a dongle or activation key. I trusted their software when I inserted the dongle into my USB port the first time and it got recognized by Da Vinci Resolve. In the case of BlackMagic, the value of the license dongle resides in the covert software/hardware algorithm, if designed properly. The irony of the whole situation is that I actually work for a company specializing in overt and covert solutions protecting genuine products from counterfeits and grey market diversion. I genuinely believed that I was buying the real thing because it worked when I received it. Unfortunately for me, I am way past the return policy on E-Bay that would normally have allowed me to return a counterfeit product. But if you see a used Rolex for $3,000 in a store, at first sight you lower your guard because it is believable. If someone sells Rolex watches on the street for $50, you know they are fake and if you decide to buy, you do not expect to own a Rolex. BlackMagic finally did their homework and fixed the software protection. It became obvious that those could not be valid licenses that people had received bundled with cameras. Seemed legit.Īpparently the problem was detected during Black Friday 2018 when very cheap copies of the dongles started showing up online in large volume. They were selling those dongles on E-bay in small volume for pretty high prices, I paid $190 for mine so that did not raise any eyebrows. It seems that hackers had figured out a long time ago how to build a dongle that passed the internal software protection that BlackMagic had put in the code. Uli Plank wrote:I wonder what's wrong with that dongle, AFAIK the counterfeit ones were showing up only recently. ![]()
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