Here is what I was told by Marianna:
MC 8 is a different beast! IT only works with 6.5.4.2 and 7.0.4.
Look at the chart.
Marianna
---In Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com, <Job_L2@...> wrote :
John,
Here's how I believe it works:
MC8 dongle lets you launch previous versions of Media Composer.
MC8 dongle with Symphony option lets you launch Symphony v7.x and Symphony v6.5.x and Symphony 6.0.4, and any version of Media Composer.
Symphony 6.0.3 and earlier will not 'see' the Symphony option on the dongle, these versions expect a Symphony dongle rather than a Media Composer one. So it's not v8 that is breaking the launch of older versions, it is the change from Symphony as a standalone product to an MC option. Your MC8 dongle would still let you launch Media Composer 5.5, just not Symphony 5.5.
(There also seems to be an incompatibility with dongles blessed for the Interplay Edition, but since that is no longer a separate option, I would think any v8 dongle would run MC (not SY) 6.0.3 and earlier).
J
On 20 jul. 2014, at 02:45, John Moore bigfish@... [Avid-L2] <Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com> wrote:When I missed the 15 day window to upgrade to Ver. 7 with the ability to upgrade to V. 8 when it came out the next suggestion was just get a support contract for the year and I could run V. 7. I didn't read all the notes, which clearly list what you can run with a V. 8 dongle. To my surprise my V. 8 blasted dongle will only run MC with symphony option V7 and symphony V 6.5.X. Again this is clearly listed in the read me but I had assumed like always a dongle would be backward compatible to earlier versions without any issues like the software activation has with the change in activation code structure between 5.5 and 6.0. If I need to run earlier than V.6.5 Avid will give me a temporary code which is great but I'm curious what the logic behind this is. My understanding is the bins from Ver 7 are compatible to the latest version of Ver 5.5 and above. I would assume, here I go again, that the same applies to Ver. 8 bins but I've got to confirm this.I guess I don't understand why, after paying the support contract money, I should lose the ability to run back to 5.5.x where bin compatibility seems to end. I've paid the money to help Avid stay in business why are they taking away a long standing ability to run previous versions? I get that moving forward they don't want to be handicapped by having to make bins etc... backwards compatible but if I want to run 5.5.x why not let my V. 8 dongle work with it like a V 7 dongle does? Many places I work haven't been eager to purchase BCC 8 or higher so they are still running V 5.5. Now my advice to them is to get the support contract for $299.00/year by the end of the year but not to blast their dongles until they need to jump to the 64 bit world. For me dongles have been a no brainer even paying the additional $300 and now $500 for them made sense because I didn't have to keep track of the software activation codes once the dongle was blasted. Now the "My Products" page does this but the simplicity of having my dongle as a universal key to Avids of all versions is something I appreciated in the past.Can someone enlighten me on why this restriction has been placed on Ver. 8 dongles and also the software activations?
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