Academic Version?

[George Loch]

[boydmcc] “For those who shouldn’t be using the academic version, or plan on moving into a pro environment in the near future, it might be worthwhile to see if you can purchase a legitimate stand alone, non-academic version of either DVD SP, Soundtrack, Motion or an older version of FCP 4.5, then spend an additional $199 for the crossgrade. You’ll then be able to get into the non-academic FCP studio environment for around the price of an academic license.”

Has anyone upgraded from the upgrade versions of these tools like the Upgrade fro STP? Just curious if the install disc asks for the upgrade serial or the software serial number that you upgraded from (aka the original).

-gl

[Passenger Robert]

[boydmcc] “When you do the crossgrade, you just get the disks. The “academic” vs. “non-academic” is in the serial number that you use. The application is exactly the same, therefore the disks they send are exactly the same. You get new disks, BUT you do not get a new serial number with the new disks, so if your SN is from an academic purchase, then the crossgrade is still an academic version of FCP.”

This statement is partially correct. . . Apple actually sent me new serial #’s. I still had my “old” serial number stickers that said, “Academic” on them. The new one’s that came with my cross-grad said, “RETAIL” on them. I reformatted, installed– used the new serial numbers that came with my cross-grade– and i had a full retail version. So– like I said, I can’t speak for what apple is doing at this point– but as one of the very first cross-grad customers out there, I asure you, that I was upgraded to “RETAIL”.

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Didnt you just read the last post.

That guy did the crossgrade from the accademic version of sounttrack pro and got the non-academic studio in return

you dont get the accademic version in return on a crossgrade

[George Loch]

Did you use your academic STP serial number to install with or did they provide a new one?

-gl

[Boyd Mccollum]

[zrb123] “Didnt you just read the last post.”

I did and I’m glad PR responded and gave us some more info. Also glad to know I’m partially correct, instead of all wrong 🙂

When you crossgrade from FCP Studio 5.0, you receive disks without serial numbers. The cost of $49 is only for shipping and handling. In fact, I used the Universal disks I got for one copy to crossgrade a second full retail version of FCP studio that I had, without sending the disks from that copy in to Apple (I wasn’t sure, but it seemed like it should work and it did).

I’m not sure how or why PR’s situation worked and Apple is pretty cagey about these things. It could be just in how they are handling the upgrades from their standalone apps (Motion, STP, DVDSP), since you’d have to get a complete set of new disks for all the other applications in the studio, you’d need to get new serial numbers. It’s probably a “bug” in their system that since they can’t tell if you have an academic version by the disks themselves, that they send the retail version back.

However, if you sent in disks from 5.0, you wouldn’t get new serial numbers, and if you had an academic version of 5.0, it would stay that way.

[Passenger Robert]

[boydmcc] “When you crossgrade from FCP Studio 5.0, you receive disks without serial numbers. The cost of $49 is only for shipping and handling. In fact, I used the Universal disks I got for one copy to crossgrade a second full retail version of FCP studio that I had, without sending the disks from that copy in to Apple (I wasn’t sure, but it seemed like it should work and it did).

I’m not sure how or why PR’s situation worked and Apple is pretty cagey about these things. It could be just in how they are handling the upgrades from their standalone apps (Motion, STP, DVDSP), since you’d have to get a complete set of new disks for all the other applications in the studio, you’d need to get new serial numbers. It’s probably a “bug” in their system that since they can’t tell if you have an academic version by the disks themselves, that they send the retail version back.

However, if you sent in disks from 5.0, you wouldn’t get new serial numbers, and if you had an academic version of 5.0, it would stay that way. “

That makes sense to me!