For what it's worth, I went the web route and found it to be pretty straight forward too. As Nick said, scans of your ID or whatever else you're using to verify that you're entitled to the education license gets validated manually, so factor in a few days for a response if you're working with deadlines to get up and running.
On 6/6/15, Nick Gawronski <n...@nickgawronski.com> wrote: > Hi, I have the educational version upgrade from Pro Tools 11 to 12. You > would qualify as when I called Avid they told me there is no difference > in versions it will be the normal version of Pro Tools not the HD > version if this is what you are talking about. I had support remote > into my system to help me transfer the ilok license and started the > downloads for me and help me fill out the educational form to say I was > a student. I gave the site my school email address but someone still > has to manually accept the offer so you will have to wait and check your > school email for the information. Avid support is the best resource as > you do have to enter in codes to some web sites and rather then do all > of this on my own as they were connected to my computer we just did this > process over the phoneas they knew I was blind so they told me lets just > do this over the phone as it was much faster then once the license was > accepted I again called support and they remoted into my system to do > the ilok transfer. Nick Gawronski > On Fri, 5 Jun 2015, Shawn Brock wrote: > >> Date: Fri, 5 Jun 2015 21:15:11 -0400 >> From: Shawn Brock <sh...@shawnbrock.com> >> Reply-To: ptaccess@googlegroups.com >> To: "ptaccess@googlegroups.com" <ptaccess@googlegroups.com> >> Subject: Part 11 or 12? >> >> I have a quick question for you guys. I have searched the list archive and >> see that accessibility has not been improved in part 12, but no one >> mentions any bad experiences in part 12. Is it safe to assume that it is >> okay to proceed with part 12 if one is running Yosemite? >> >> Also, do any of you have experience with running and educational license >> of ProTools? I would qualify for such pricing because of my position at >> the University, but just wanted to make sure nothing has been hacked off >> of the educational Version. I know, I know, the Internet says it is a full >> working version, but the Internet says a lot of things LOL. >> >> Thanks as always, >> Shawn >> >> Sent from my iPhone >> >> > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Pro Tools Accessibility" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to ptaccess+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
