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What the heck is a “floating” licence?
I suppose it’d be fair to say that if I have to ask this question, I really shouldn’t be buying this software…. but forging ahead nevertheless….
I was interested in buying the 3D Camera Tracker from The Foundry. I have After Effects CS5, and I’m told it will work fine in it. So, I go to The Foundry and check out the options and decide to go ahead and buy it.
When I get to the “Buy” options page, I see there’s several of them. I’m presented with the choice of a “node-locked”, “Floating”, or “render” licence. Being an ignoramus, I have absolutely no idea what this means! All I want to do is buy a piece of software and plug it into After Effects, and be on my way…
Can anyone clue me in, please? Thank you.
Greg.
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8 Replies
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Node-locked means it onlyregisters for one computer. Floating means you can register in or out on different computers, much like Adobe CC.
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Ah. So node locked is the way to go for an amateur who’s only using one computer and a few applications, to do video.
Thanks, Morten.
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I’m curious about why you’d be buying the Camera Tracker plug-in rather than upgrading to After Effects CS6 for less money and using the 3D Camera Tracker built into After Effects CS6.
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Todd Kopriva, Adobe Systems Incorporated
After Effects quality engineering
After Effects team blog
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[Todd Kopriva] “I’m curious about why you’d be buying the Camera Tracker plug-in rather than upgrading to After Effects CS6 for less money and using the 3D Camera Tracker built into After Effects CS6.”
The Foundry’s Camera Tracker is better 🙂 Whether it’s worth the price or not is another question.
If performing camera tracks is something that you’ll be doing a lot, you need flexibility for improving solves and you have the money to buy it then even with CS6 or CC I’d recommend The Foundry’s plug-in.
Darby Edelen
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One not so subtle distinction from CC in the case of The Foundry: you need to have a machine dedicated as the license server. That machine needs to be accessible via network from any computer that will need a license. If you don’t have someone to manage a license server then that can quickly become a PITA.
Darby Edelen
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License server is only necessary for floating license, but could reside on any machine on the network.
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Is there an option with node-locked to decommission one machine for use on another newer (if buying a newer machine, etc)?
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Nodelocked uses a software key that is locked to a certain machine ( reads its hardware serial number) and can only be changed by contacting the vendor
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