
Manual Activation Guide
Episode
ScreenFlow
Wirecast
Videocue
Flip4Mac WMV
Flip4Mac MXF
C 2009 Telestream, Inc.

Introduction
This Manual Activation Guide is for Telestream customers who have purchased Episode,
ScreenFlow, Wirecast, Videocue, Flip4Mac WMV, or Flip4Mac MXF, a
activate their serial number because their Macintosh is not connected to the Internet.
nd need to manually
The instructions use Scree
Telestream’s products listed above.
nFlow as an example. These instructions apply to each of
Manually Activating Your Application
After you purchase an application, you’ll receive your Purchase Confirmation via email, so that
you can activate your application. If the Macintosh where the application is installed doesn’t have
Internet access, follow these steps to activate it manually:
1. Run the application and select Preferences from the application’s main menu (ScreenFlow,
for example).
Select Preferences from the
application’s main menu.
2. In the Preferences window, click the Licenses icon to display the Licenses panel.
Click the Enter
Serial Number
button to display the
Activate Serial
Number dialog.
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3. Click the Enter Serial Number button to display the Activate Serial Number dialog. (The dialog
displayed in your application may have a Name field – it is not necessary to enter your name.)
Enter the serial number.
Click Activate.
4. In the Serial number field, enter the serial number from the Order Confirmation email. Be sure
to enter only zeroes (no capital letter O’s), capitalize all letters, and include hyphens.
5. Click Activate. When the applicaton attempts to validate your serial number and fails because
your Macintosh is not connected to the Internet, it displays the following dialog:
Click Continue.
7. Click Continue. The application displays the Activation Options dialog:
Select this option.
Click Next.
8. Click the second button in the list to indicate you’re using a different computer, and click Next.
9. ScreenFlow displays the Activate Using Another Computer dialog.
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Enter the auto-generated
installation ID in the eSellerate
Web site.
(Note: this is not your serial
number)
Click Next.
10. Now, using the computer that has Internet access, go to activate.esellerate.net.
Enter the license key in this
field.
Click Submit to return an
activation key.
11. Enter the installation ID from the Product Activation dialog in the field provided, then click
Submit.
The Web site returns a page which displays your unique activation key composed of ten
groups of numbers and letters. If your Macintosh is not immediately adjacent, print this page
or write down the activation key so you can enter it on your other Macintosh.
12. Return to your Macintosh and click Next. The application displays the Enter Activation Key
dialog with 10 fields.
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Enter the activation
key you received from
the Web site in these
10 fields.
Click Activate.
13. Enter your activation key in the fields provided in Activation Key fields and click Activate.
The activation key is validated and the application you purchased is activated. Now, you can
utilize the features of the upgrade you purchased without trial limits.
14. In the Preferences window, click the Licenses icon to verify activation in the Licenses panel.
Activated serial
number - no, this
isn’t a real one :-)
Save the order confirmation in case you need to re-install and re-activate the application.
Telestream Part No. 74-0171-01
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