Yes, that's what I got too.

adam5000, You don't need to actually download the free upgrade of MC 6 from the 'protect' site before it goes down. What you do need to get is the activation ID, or "software license number" from Avid before the 'protect' site is shut down. You should do that today as the site is only up until Dec 15th (tomorrow)! I had

Marianna, Thanks for jumping in with the information. I have downloaded MC 6 from the 'protect' site and received a "upgrade serial number", four groups of four alpha-numeric digits. Is this the "activation ID" that you are referring to?

Here is an update to my problem with installing, registering and activating the free upgrade version of MC 6 at a later date (after the 'protect' page has been taken down). A friend with a similar dilemma had asked Marianna for clarification and below is a copy of her e-mailed reply, which he was kind enough to forward to me. I hope this clears

[quote user="Larry Rubin"] OK Igor, based on that error message, you need to contact Avid support. Here are your options: If you are unable to deactivate it yourself from the Special Menu in MC, and if you are in the United States or Canada, call 1-800-800-2843 during normal business hours (9 AM to 6 PM US Eastern, Monday-Friday) and choose

[quote user="Larry Rubin"] Igor: Yours would definitely not be a new software registration, it would be an upgrade in which case walking through the upgrade process to MC 6 would include registering MC 6 at the same time. But as you requested, here is the link to register MC 6: http://www.avid.com/US/support/register-product/media-composer

[quote user="Yavid"] REGISTER MC6 (protect-download-upgrade) BEFORE 15th December !!! - Thanks for that Larry ! - I hadn't registered , but have now. Phew ! I'm so glad you're around to help ! [/quote] Yavid, What is the link to the registration page that you used for your upgrade to MC 6? I need to do the same thing.

Larry, I tried to "Edit" my previous post with additional information, but this forum doesn't seem to be able to do that. Here is what I wanted to add: ADDED: The confusion in that "upgrade" registration page mentioned in my previous post is that the first line refers to a dongle upgrade activation code. As it turned out, that

Larry, I am not sure if your link was that "wrong" page, but it looks like it. I do remember that Marianna was involved in a discussion thread around Nov.8, 9, or 10 (because that's when I eventually registered my MC 5.5 download) and the link she gave at the time caused problems for some of us. It turned out that the link took me to a

Larry, thanks for clarifying that. Sorry to be a pest, but one more question: Which is the right registration page for MC 6 as an upgrade from MC 5.5? Last month when I tried to register MC 5.5 as an upgrade from MC 5, I got onto the wrong page and got into a time warp loop of "duplicate registration" and "e-mail address already in use"