Deauthorize Final Cut Suite?

Just about to upgrade to Leopard on my work MBP- going for a clean install (don't suggest an upgrade please!).
I already have the full suite of final cut installed on this mac under one of our 5 licenses - all are registered with apple too.
my question is this: how do i deauthorize FC suite? do i even have to, or will the license be OK with (what is essentially) a fresh mac and new install?
i don't want a message popping up at work every time i use it saying there's too many copies...
thanks for your time and help.

Just about to upgrade to Leopard on my work MBP- going for a clean install (don't suggest an upgrade please!).
Very Smart man indeed! Welcome to the forum!
I already have the full suite of final cut installed on this mac under one of our 5 licenses - all are registered with apple too.
my question is this: how do i deauthorize FC suite? do i even have to, or will the license be OK with (what is essentially) a fresh mac and new install?
The fresh install takes care of the whole shebang...
i don't want a message popping up at work every time i use it saying there's too many copies...
You won't have this problem... you'll never have more than 5 right? You can legally put a copy on one desktop, and one laptop as long as you don't run them both at the same time too.
Jerry

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Hi there!
This is the first time i write on the official Apple support forums so i hope this is the right section. Here's the deal; yesterday morning i've updated my Mac(the automatic update popped out on its own) and it added the App Store, i rebooted the system when asked and though everything went fine.
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As you said Spotlight won't work anymore now but i can do my homework and continue my personal project now, hope to hear from Apple an official solution or at least someone to tell us what the problem is.
If you find the source of this trouble please tell us, hope there's a fix somewhere but for the moment this is great!
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Message was edited by: Margalus

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still images with too high a resolution will always cause problems. this is due to the detail of the image being finer than the scanline of the tv can display ... obviously this will caise the image to flicker as these details alternately appear and disappear as and when the scanline can display them. as you have discovered, the answer is to apply a very small blur, the effect being that the detail is spread by the blur such that the scanline can dislay it correctly.
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New to Mac - Configuration Hardware Advise for Final Cut Professional

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UlfLaursen wrote:
... Would that extra power og the graphics card, … be worth an extra $1200?
I'm taking up on this board a very, very radical p.o.v.:
Speed is no issue.
When using optimzed media, even my stoneold c2d/4GB Mini I had before had no trouble to handle multicam-streams... (Windows-using-friends in shock "Really??")
A faster hardware outperforms when? On transcoding/rendering. But:
a) you can start editing BEFORE transcoding is accomplished (one of the many marvels of FCPX I don't understand but like)
b) you can keep editing a project while it is exported .. one of the many marvels of... ok, we had that
c) '33% faster' means what? 20min instead of 30? wowy, use this spare time for writing a book, healing cancer, give world peace..
No, as long as you're not in a newsroom and HAVE to deliver on time, as long as you don't get paid that extra 1.200€ by your clients ('cause you're an amateur like me), it is plain nonsense to dig into the specs of costly SSDs, GraCas, internal busses, tranffer rates and what not.
... if you're a 'hackintosh'-builder or a Linux-woreshipper, all this stuff is a wonderful, time-eating hobby.
But for using FCPX 10-20x a year for some 20min YouTube-family-video... ?
c'mon!! Get alive!
Speed is no issue.
… and:
Compounds are evil.
'nuff said ... LOL!
mane tak for listening...

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interdiscipline wrote:
Here's the configuration we're considering:
Processor: Two 3.2GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon (8-core)
*Don't do it!* Stick with the dual-2.8GHz config. A jump from that to the dual-3.2GHz gains you only an approximate 9% increase in power at a 52% increase in cost! Not worth it all. That money is much wiser spent on RAM, RAID array, or a broadcast monitor.
Memory: 16GB (4 x 4GB)
Hard Drives: 300GB 15,000-rpm SAS (for OS X, Final Cut, & other programs) plus 2 x 1TB 7200-rpm Serial ATA 3Gb/s (for video storage)
Graphics: NVIDIA Quadro FX 5600
We're thinking about spending the extra $1600 to get the best processor available, since we want this machine to be the hub of the business for about five years.
The processor is only one part of the whole, and as I just mentioned, the power:cost benefits are not good.
The graphics card is where we're most torn - specifically between the Quadro 5600, the GeForce 8800, or perhaps even getting the computer with the standard card (or no card) and getting a different third-party card. We do mostly DV now, but we foresee doing HD projects in the future.
Quadro 5600 is pricey, but I'm not sure about its benefits for people in our field. Even if I had the money for it, I would be hard pressed to consider it considering, again, money is liekly wiser spent elsewhere.
Also, it looks like we're gonna buy Final Cut Studio 2 and are considering also getting Final Cut Server. It seems the combination would allows us to use the Final Cut suite on other computers (both Mac and Wintel) that don't have their own version of Final Cut installed. Is that the correct interpretation?
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Ziatron wrote:
.... But I find the iMovie 06 interface superior to my mind. I also like the 'Final Cut' like Timeline of iMovie 06.  
you probably know, Adobe Premiere, iMovie a + b + i and FinalCut come from the same master-mind (Randy U.)
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I'd love some help with the following. Thanks in advance.
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interdiscipline wrote:
Here's the configuration we're considering:
Processor: Two 3.2GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon (8-core)
*Don't do it!* Stick with the dual-2.8GHz config. A jump from that to the dual-3.2GHz gains you only an approximate 9% increase in power at a 52% increase in cost! Not worth it all. That money is much wiser spent on RAM, RAID array, or a broadcast monitor.
Memory: 16GB (4 x 4GB)
Hard Drives: 300GB 15,000-rpm SAS (for OS X, Final Cut, & other programs) plus 2 x 1TB 7200-rpm Serial ATA 3Gb/s (for video storage)
Graphics: NVIDIA Quadro FX 5600
We're thinking about spending the extra $1600 to get the best processor available, since we want this machine to be the hub of the business for about five years.
The processor is only one part of the whole, and as I just mentioned, the power:cost benefits are not good.
The graphics card is where we're most torn - specifically between the Quadro 5600, the GeForce 8800, or perhaps even getting the computer with the standard card (or no card) and getting a different third-party card. We do mostly DV now, but we foresee doing HD projects in the future.
Quadro 5600 is pricey, but I'm not sure about its benefits for people in our field. Even if I had the money for it, I would be hard pressed to consider it considering, again, money is liekly wiser spent elsewhere.
Also, it looks like we're gonna buy Final Cut Studio 2 and are considering also getting Final Cut Server. It seems the combination would allows us to use the Final Cut suite on other computers (both Mac and Wintel) that don't have their own version of Final Cut installed. Is that the correct interpretation?
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