This IS the Avid L2: Re: [Avid-L2] What does Baselight's new announcement mean to you?

This is very informative. I have baselight on my home system but it would be great to be able to have it move with me. It doesn't mention if I already have an existing seat what I do to convert to a freelance license. I'm assuming given I have an existing license that should be no problem. I'll contact filmlight. I enjoyed the ProVideo article.

---In avid-l2@yahoogroups.com, <Steve@...> wrote :

I just touched base with my contact at Filmlight (the company that makes Baselight) Here's their response to this issue, which I think is a pretty good one. Not a perfect solution, but it definitely shows that there is a solution of sorts:

From Martin Tiaskal of FilmLight:

We already have "freelancer" serial numbers because any node-locked serial number can be activated for a limited amount of time on a given machine. So a freelancer can arrive at a site, activate their personal serial number for the length of the job (or day by day, perhaps) and when it expires, they are free to activate again somewhere else. A number of freelancers are doing this now.

http://www.filmlight.ltd.uk/store/store-faqs/#freelance

Steve

On Nov 11, 2015, at 1:39 PM, blafarm@... [Avid-L2] <Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

Thanks for your response.

I think this is a missed opportunity for Filmlight. In an industry largely dominated by Resolve, adding sales friction makes no sense. Yes, you could argue that a lack of a 'transportable' licence forces more plugin seats to be purchased -- but in reality, it probably causes potential customers to just walk away and use Resolve (which does not have that restriction).

The inflexibility of this approach also undermines the sale of the plugin to a slew of potential customers that need to move between machines within their own facility -- or at their customer's facilities. Limiting the floating feature to one enterprise network is a half-measure that falls short of many customer's needs.

If I were fighting a free product (Resolve), and my goal was to have the industry more-fully embrace my product, I wouldn't create these obstacles. But that's just my selfish opinion.

---In Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com, <Steve@...> wrote :

I think the press release and the website make it pretty clear that the "floating license" requires that it "float" ONLY on a network and the network needs some specific things even. The floating license they're describing is definitely NOT the solution to a freelancer who moves from place to place and wants to be able to have Baselight follow him around. I sympathize and empathize. I'm often in the same boat… Even inside my own shop, I am not on the right kind of network even in my office, so I would need multiple licenses really… It does help that all of my systems can at least have the free reader version and I only need one version for "editing" the color grades. But moving that license around is still virtually impossible.

Steve

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