Q100693: How to apply for a Foundry product trial

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SUMMARY

Foundry trial licenses are available as individual licenses for: Nuke family, Hiero, Katana and Mari. This article covers how to apply for trial licenses of our products. 

NOTES:

  • Flix is not available as a trial license. However, you can request a demo by visiting: https://www.foundry.com/products/flix/request-demo
  • Nuke Indie is not available as a trial license. Nuke Indie includes the same features you get in Nuke Studio and NukeX, with certain functional restrictions via the Nuke trial license.  Further information on Nuke Indie can be found in this FAQs page: https://www.foundry.com/products/nuke-family/nuke-indie/faq
  • Our Nuke family/Mari trial license will allow you to access the commercial versions of Nuke family/Mari products. 


If you wish to access the Non-Commercial versions of our products, you will need to apply for separate Non-Commercial entitlements using the following guides:
Q100424: How to get a Mari Non-Commercial entitlement
Q100423: How to get a Nuke Non-Commercial entitlement

 


MORE INFORMATION
 

Before applying for a trial license, you will need to sign up for a foundry.com account at: https://www.foundry.com/user/register 

Once you’ve registered and set up your account on foundry.com, please follow the steps below to obtain a free trial license for your desired product:

  1. Visit the trial page for the product you wish to trial from the provided links below:

    Nuke family - https://www.foundry.com/products/nuke-family/try-nuke
    Mari - https://www.foundry.com/products/mari/try-mari
    Katana - https://www.foundry.com/products/katana/try-katana 

     
  2. Fill out the questionnaire form and click Start my free trial 
     

From here the steps differ depending on which product you are trialling.


Nuke and Mari 


3. Your trial license will then be added to your foundry.com account.

4. Activate your license by following the steps in this guide: Q100585: How to activate your Individual Login license
 

 

Katana


3. An activation key will be sent to your inbox.

4. Activate your license by following the steps under the 'Activation Keys for Nodelocked Licenses' section in this guide: Q100259: How to use an Activation Key to install your license
 

 

UNABLE TO OBTAIN A TRIAL

If you are trying to apply for a trial license and see the message “Sorry, your trial is not available right now!”, there will be 2 possible reasons:

 

1: You have already applied for a trial license.


After applying for a trial license, the license will appear on your foundry.com account at Login Licenses or be sent directly to your email. Once a trial license is issued, you will not need to revisit the trial page and re-apply for the license. Please follow the steps above to activate the license.

 

2: Your trial license has expired.

Our trial licenses are active for 30 days from when you apply for a trial. Once the 30 days expire, you will no longer be able access the trial license.
However, you can re-apply for a new trial when a new minor version of the product is launched.
 

 


FURTHER HELP

If you are experiencing difficulties obtaining a trial license or activating your license, please create a support ticket to let us know the exact issue encountered and the troubleshooting steps that have been taken.
For more information on how to open a support request, please refer to this article: Q100064: How to raise a support ticket

 

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