remove studio licence

Hi

I am selling my MAC M1 and want to use the installed studio licence on another machine. What do I have to do ?

just paste your key when resolve is asking for it on your new machine

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so I dont have to unregister it from the old machine?

No.

nop. you can have one key active on two machines at the same time. as soon as you put your key on a third machine the first two get thrown out and you have the third one active + one that you can put on another machine again.

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I am selling my MAC M1 and want to use the installed studio licence on another machine. What do I have to do ?

All the advices may work but sometimes they don't. You better go to Help > Deactivate License before you sell the machine. Then you can re-enter the license on your new computer without any hassle.

And no - you may use the activation key on two computers at the same time but once you use it on a third installation, the oldest activation gets removed. This does not work sometimes due to problems with BM's database. I had it twice that BM had to reset my activations. So you better deactivate your license properly before using the activation key again.

Have fun and stay healthy,
Dieter

the same problem happened to me.
I am waiting since last week for an answer by email.

[Peter Chamberlain]

I recommend deactivating via the help menu.

The license key aways has two seats and they auto kill if you try to add a third.
This is designed so if you have failed computer (etc) you don't loose your license but the automatic reset process also has a frequency trigger to prevent piracy so I recommend using the help menu.

Dear Blackmagic fans,

First of al, I like to say I'm every happy to be able to join this forum. And hope to learn a lot of things form this forum.

Yesterday I have bought with a lot of joy the studio version of the davinci resolve. And I must say that I'm blew away by the upgrade. But I had a question.

Every year I do a clean install of Windows 10 pro, to keep my PC work at his max.
Now I was wondering, is it possible to Deactivate my license before I do a clean install of Windows and then re active it after the clean install every year? I use only 1 PC

On Linux, it is

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resolve -deactivate

I assume a command line invocation on any other OS may accomplish the same.

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$ /opt/resolve/bin/resolve -deactivate
ActCCMessage Already in Table: Code= c005, Mode= 13, Level=  1, CmdKey= -1, Option= 0
ActCCMessage Already in Table: Code= c006, Mode= 13, Level=  1, CmdKey= -1, Option= 0
ActCCMessage Already in Table: Code= c007, Mode= 13, Level=  1, CmdKey= -1, Option= 0
ActCCMessage Already in Table: Code= 2282, Mode=  0, Level=  0, CmdKey= 8, Option= 0
PnlMsgActionStringAdapter Already in Table: Code= 615e, Mode=  0, Level=  0, CmdKey= -1, Option= 0
log4cxx: No appender could be found for logger (LeManager).
log4cxx: Please initialize the log4cxx system properly.
License deactivated successfully.


I am selling my MAC M1 and want to use the installed studio licence on another machine. What do I have to do ?

All the advices may work but sometimes they don't. You better go to Help > Deactivate License before you sell the machine. Then you can re-enter the license on your new computer without any hassle.

And no - you may use the activation key on two computers at the same time but once you use it on a third installation, the oldest activation gets removed. This does not work sometimes due to problems with BM's database. I had it twice that BM had to reset my activations. So you better deactivate your license properly before using the activation key again.

Have fun and stay healthy,
Dieter

Thanks, Dieter! You are as competent as BM's Peter Chamberlain who answered a bit later.

Is there a way to deactivate a license from the config menu? That seems to be the only one I can get to because it's complaining about my GPU. I tried the command line version from above and sadly, this is what I get on PoP OS 22.04 ...

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$ /opt/resolve/bin/resolve -deactivate
ActCCMessage Already in Table: Code= c005, Mode= 13, Level=  1, CmdKey= -1, Option= 0
ActCCMessage Already in Table: Code= c006, Mode= 13, Level=  1, CmdKey= -1, Option= 0
ActCCMessage Already in Table: Code= c007, Mode= 13, Level=  1, CmdKey= -1, Option= 0
ActCCMessage Already in Table: Code= 2282, Mode=  0, Level=  0, CmdKey= 8, Option= 0
Segmentation fault (core dumped)