Activation / Registration issues
 

I just purchased NEO HDV and followed all the instructions for activation. When I tried to enter my activation key that I recieved it does not work. When I go to the Cineform website to file a ticket they say my e-mail is not in their database. This is a pain... is there a number I can call them at?

Marc

Not normally difficult to register. The phone number is on the web site under "About CineForm." But if you email support@cineform.com or file a trouble it normal gets addressed faster.

Got it worked out with tech support. Because I had the demo previously installed it was giving me two system codes and I needed to choose the "enhanced" one. Tech support was quick and helpful.

Thank you.

Marc

I just had this problem, figured out what was happening and solved it myself by re-registering using the enhanced "hardware fingerprint". Choosing the "enhanced" fingerprint needs to go into the directions.. I almost lost a couple of days of planned importing, since I chose to do the purchase/registration/validation over the weekend, when support was closed. Also, the "Buy Now" button, that shows when you load an unregistered copy, takes you to the registration page, instead of the purchase page. That is confusing; you start entering registration info when you don't have the info you need, having not yet purchased the software.

Jim, can you point me to the bad link?

Sorry for the delay, was a hectic weekend... will get it to you as soon as I am back home... if I can.. it comes up when you need to register the software, and I have now done that. But I need to install the new version, and that will probably show me the link.

Upgrading to the latest release didn't bring up the window that has the bad link, nor does running the activation script. I think I'd have to deactivate, or install the demo version on a different computer, to get that link to pop up. Will try the latter as soon as I have time.

How long to recieve Activation key?
 

Hello
Last week I had to reinstall winxp and forgot to deactivate AspectHD.
I submitted a trouble ticket and was sent a reply to the ticket that I was to register with the the new sys code. I did that on Monday 2/4/08. How long does it take to get a new Activation code? I'm on about the 10th day of trial so I'm okay but.. Just wanted to know how long it usually takes.

Thanks for your time.

David, your question was kind of user specific, so I sent you an email - take a look there so we can get you taken care of....

How long to recieve Activation key?
 

Yes, it worked this time. Problem resolved.
Thank you David

Prospect HD/2K activation/deactiavation problems
 

***we tried to send this text as a ticket to cineforms help desk, but the ticket service is not working for weeks now. so we're trying to get some help here in this forum***

Hello!

Our problem is that we did not deactivate Prospect HD before our free upgrade to Prospect 2K. So we're having problems ever since.
Now that we wanted to update to the latest version of Prospect 2K our license stopped working. Prospect 2K tells us that the trial peroid has expired. Since we originally bought the software this should not be happening.

We think that we need a new serial for our copy of Prospect 2K so that we can update to the latest version.

Please also tell us the workflow after you sent us a new serial.
Shall we install our original version of Prospect HD, then wait for a new serial you send to us, and then update Prospect HD to Prospect 2K and then to the latest version of Prospect 2K?

We're a little confused about how to get Prospect 2K working again. Please help us with that, thanks in advance

We own 3 copies of Prospect HD(/2K), one for Ingest and two for editing.

Please somebody tell Cineform that their support system is down. This is getting urgent by now, we can't do SDI HD as long as Prospect is not working.

Chris, send me an email and include the S/N you're having trouble with. dtaylor at cineform dot com. We'll get you taken care of.

Watch out when the System Code changes...
 

I had to replace a motherboard recently and was afraid Prospect HD wouldn't continue to work. I had not reinstalled any software and the disk array was untouched by my hardware issues. To my surprise, Premiere Pro CS3 and Prospect HD still ran fine, but Activate was now reporting a new System Code value, different from the one I had originally used to obtain an Activation Key.

Fearing there would be problems later, I told Cineform support what had happened, and they reset my S/N so I could get a new Activation Key using the new System Code being reported by Activate. (WRONG! ERROR! DANGER WILL ROBINSON! Why? Read on...)

So I go to the Cineform website, get an Activation Key emailed to me, created with the new System Code. Almost immediately, I realize that I need to "De-Activate" the software before I can re-Activate it using this new Activation Key. So I de-activate it. (The de-activation process gives me something that I've never seen before called a "de-activation" key that, to my SERIOUS REGRET, I do not write down...I already HAD my new Activation Key, right?) WRONG again!

The System Code CHANGES YET AGAIN (!) after de-activation! (Who knows why? My hardware hadn't changed!) and the new Activation Key is completely useless!

And, since I had "consumed" my 2nd attempt at activation from the Cineform Website using the 2nd System Code reported by the Activate program BEFORE I had de-activated, I must now wait for Cineform Support to reset my S/N again and let me have still ANOTHER Activation key. (Ticket # 611-5719475) (I guess I'll call them if I don't hear from them in a while!)

I have no idea why the process of de-activating caused the System Code to change a third time. Does anyone?

I greatly regret not making note of the "de-activation" code. My Prospect HD is looking a bit like a $999 boat anchor as I wait for Cineform to allow me to use it again on the system I originally installed it on (the only system it has EVER been installed on and the only one it ever will be. I'm not running "Yo Ho Ho" Software here or anything...) (Sure, it runs in 15-day TRIAL mode now, but I'm not sure what that means in terms of limited functionality.)

I honestly doubt that it would have helped me to have saved the De-Activation code after making the mistake of acquiring a new Activation Key using the 2nd System Code displayed by Activate, before De-Activating. I would probably be supplying Cineform a "De-Activation" key that wouldn't match the 2nd System Code that their server now believes my software has been Activated under! (What a tangled mess, to be sure!)

Cineform needs to make this Activate / De-Activate, or "when do I care if the System Code changes" thing a whole lot more obvious. What are the rules?

1. Will the software keep running if the System Code is not the one you used to Activate it?

2. What happens if you uninstall and install an update on a system running with a changed System Code?

3. When DO I need to worry about it and when don't I? In this case, should I have even bothered to sweat all this brain damage since the software was still running just fine after the motherboard swap, having been activated under the OLD System Code? (As in, "if it ain't broke, don't fix it!")

When Cineform support reset my S/N for re-activation attempt number 1, they did not mention that I needed to make sure I had already de-activated the software (if it was still running) BEFORE requesting the 2nd Activation Key from their website.

Yikes!

Good to go again...
 

I am good to go again after being reset by Cineform Support.

Thanks, guys.

I still don't know why the System Code would change through the De-Activation process.

That is a requirement, otherwise you can re-activate with you old key and our server wouldn't be aware of it, give you unlimited licenses. De-activation is designed to move a license from one PC to another.

I was thinking of replacing my Dual Core with a Quad core CPU on the same motherboard, do I need to deactivate Cineform before I do this? Is it tied to the CPU or something else?

CPU is one of the things it is keyed against, and there have to three system changes before you need new activation (CPU + RAM + Disk + MAC Address + etc.) So you should be able to up grade the CPU. However, the safe bet is to deactivate first.

Without going into the gory details, after purchasing an upgrade to Prospect yesterday morning, I spent almost full time until finally activating it this morning. What a nightmare. At one time I had two different system codes up in two different Cineform windows at once! I didn't know this was possible. And I was under the misinformation that the system code wouldn't change unless I changed hardware, software, etc., and I changed nothing during that better than 24 hour period during which the system code kept changing, except the Cineform software and my mind!

@David Newman

I finally bought Neo HDV and got it registered and activated okay, but did you guys realize that the most recent download has a .zip extension when in fact it is an .exe self-extracting archive? I sent Cineform Support an email, but I don't know if it ever got changed, since I never went back to the download page and looked.

Thanks, now fixed.

Hi David!

Did you get the email i sent to you last week? I've put our licensing data in there. This is getting really urgent now, so please reply.
btw. is the ticket service up again?

thx,
Chris

Chris, I did NOT get an email from you. In fact I was surprised I didn't. Perhaps it got lost in a spam filter somewhere. Please resend. We've been out of the office for the long weekend but are back on Tuesday. dtaylor at cineform dot com

Hi David!

i resend the mail. please check.
thx,
Chris

Chris, please check your email....

Activation Code Not Arriving
 

I have re-installed 4.03b after asystem failure thanks to help from Jake, but I still have not received my activation code in e-mail.

My spam filter is turned off.

I also attempted to re-open this ticket two days ago, but have not yet heard anything back.

Jay Handleson

I just emailed it to you and got a mail delivery error saying that it was 'blocked for abuse'. Can you make sure that your spam filter is configured to allow emails from support@cineform.com.

Also, I just sent you the key directly using DVInfo personal message.

Attempting to upgrade from Aspect HD to Prospect 2K
 

David and/or Jake,

I am attempting to download the trial of Prospect 2K and find that I am not receiving the email with the download link. I've attempted twice. My email is correct in the request and my spam filter is now off. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Many thanks,
David Wilson

Our server shows emails going out to you 3-4 times. Try another email account, if you still have issue contact support. Spam filtering up the chain is the likely fault.

Thanks David I'll try another email account.

The emails just came through in an avalanche. Go figure... Thanks again.

Thanks Jake, I received the second e-mail, but not the first. So I can now activate the software.

Strangely enough, I have received e-mail from support@cineform.com.

Something in the message is causing the message to be blocked (?) and I cannot imagine what it would be because I turned off my spam filter to try and receive the code.

Thanks again for all your effort.

Jay

Activation doesn't work
 

Hey guys,

I've been emailing Cineform about this a couple of days ago, but they just don't give any response at all. Since I'm on a very tight schedule and I already missed a couple of days because of this, I hope someone around here might know what to do.

When I try to activate AspectHD, I get an error message saying that my serial number doesn't appear to be valid. I use the same key as before, all I did was reinstall my Windows a couple of weeks ago.

Thanks

Ferdi,

Each time you reinstall the program, it generates a new system code and therefore the activation key will be different. You need to contact support for a new key.

If you do no get emails from them, as is my situation, write a ticket to support and ask them to list the key there.

Mike

Thanks Mike, but what do you mean with "writing a ticket" to them?

It seems I'm not the only one they don't respond to. That's some real bad support then...

When you go to their support system, reporting a problem is called filing a ticket.

Generally their support is very good. My problem is that, for some unknown reason, the emails they send to my regular email address do not arrive. They are not in my junk folder or anywhere. Very strange, but just the way it is. I even had to set-up a new yahoo account so I could receive their mails. You may have the same issue.

Mike

Thanks. I have received all their other emails, though. So it shouldn't be a problem.