cornelius_3 wrote:

 

Kevin Monahan wrote:

 

Unfortunately, I can't really speak to why the team has not yet included a feature like this. It is certainly not a trivial task as I know of no other NLE in the current market that saves project files in a previous version. Again, I ask you to make your request known to the team so that it be considered.

 

Thanks,

Kevin

 

What the heck are you talking about?  You can open any AVID Media Composer project in any AVID Version from 2+   I've openned Media Composer Projects from Version 7 on legacy 5.0 machines.  And their USB dongle is backwards compatabile too.

cornelius,

That's good to know that you never have issues with backward compatibility with AMC.  

If this is really important to you for Premiere Pro, than please make a feature request: http://www.adobe.com/go/wish

Thanks,
Kevin

Hi Bro you see the video.

See ►http://youtu.be/ZpRZwVL8arU

Motasim,

If you are trying to say that you can't open perfectly good Premiere Pro CC projects in Premiere Pro CS6 even though CS6 projects open just fine.... We know. It is not supposed to be possible. It has seldom been possible to go back to an older version. Upgrade all of your computers to use Premiere Pro CC or don't make the mistake of working in CC and then attempting to go back to CS6.

I found the following work-around: not perfect, but quite good.

• Premiere 6.5 projects can be directly opened in CS6 or earlier just by changing the extension from .ppj to .prproj

• Make a copy of the original .prproj file and name it Name_audio-only.prproj
• Export sequence(s) as FCP XML from CC - multiple sequences can be selected OR select Project Panel to export entire project (Attention: Most video - even intrinsic ones like motion, opacity etc. and audio effects are not correctly translated! Check beforehand that all 3rd party plugins are installed in all versions of PPro!)
• Save a copy of the project as Name_video-only.prproj and delete all audio tracks or audio clips from all sequences that contain video effects
• Close PPro CC project

• If the PPro CC project file is compressed, add .gz as extension and extract with 7zip
  • To disable compression in CC:
    • Ctrl + F12 to open Console, switch to Debug Database View: BE.CompressProject> false
• Open in Notepad++

• Edit version number change (4th line) from 26 to 23 or 24 and open the project in PPro CS5.0.3 or PPro 5.5.2 and save it.
• If there should be a color picker dialogue box while opening click Cancel (as this is most probably for Adjustment Layer which are not supported in CS5.5)
• If PPro CS5.5 shows a Log of non-translated effects etc., copy and paste them into a text file with the project name for later reference. 
  • PPro Version numbers:
    • 23>CS5
    • 24>CS5.5
    • 25>CS6
    • 26>CC
    • 27>CC 2014
  • A simple change to 23 and opening it directly in Adobe Premiere Pro CS6 does not work! (Liegt wahrscheinlich an den Audiotracks, da Projekte mit Sequenzen, die nur Video enthalten, teilw. geöffnet werden können.)
  • It is possible to open a PPro CS6 project directly in CS5.5 by editing the version number from 25 to 24.

• Open this project Name_video-only.prproj in Adobe Premiere Pro CS6 and convert it to CS6 project - now you have all the sequences with the supported video effects
• Import FCP XML project file(s) into PPro CS6 and copy the audio tracks from the corresponding sequences (or vice versa: copy video tracks so they align synchronously again)

• Gotcha’s:
  • Through Edits, Adjustment Layers, Time Remapping, 3rd party filters, plugins, transitions may not be correctly translated!

PRPROJ File Associations

After installing an update to PPro, Windows will change the default program to the latest program version, e.g. CC. If you want to revert those to CS6, you cannot simply do it with Rightclick>Open with>C hange default program..

There is a way to change the setting in the Windows Registry:

Open regedit.exe as Administrtor

HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT/Adobe.Premiere.Pro.Project. >  shell/open/command and change the path in “” to the correct program version.

You can also do a search in the section of HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT/Adobe.Premiere.(with various endings following the word "Premiere") and change all remaining instances.

Long story short, i needed to work on PP CC to use its new multi-cam function through audio. It did a very good job, edited all the parts as intended so when i needed to get back to PP cs6... i couldn't.

After reaching this post and reading plenty of suggestions this is what worked perfectly for me: Exported my working timeline for FinalCut xml, opened a new project in PP CS6 and imported xml just as is with all linked media e sequences. the video and audio would seem off but i chose all of my media and made them offline (remain on hdd option) and then relinked them. well that was all for me... Hope it helps most of you ... (i think if you have fx active from third party plug-in's they might not be recognized... but  half the job might get done !!!

Actually I am very glad CC Merchant made his statement here.  Not all of us have the luxury of scouring chats all day.  It truly is a helpful statement that he made.

I had the exact same question as this original post.  Not all of us "grew up" on Premiere.  I'm sure I not the only one who switched to Adobe after Apple dis'd all of the FCP editors by dropping FCP.  My first experience with Premiere was CS6 (actually, my first experience was way back and Premiere was a toy in those days).  Now I am finding the Adobe doesn't care if I have projects on the previous version.  You can understand our disgust!

Thank all of you who are working on work arounds rather than chiding people for getting and understanding of PPCC.

An additional warning is worth mentioning. See the RED warning here: Tweakers Page .

Hi David,

David at NCF wrote:

 

Now I am finding the Adobe doesn't care if I have projects on the previous version.  You can understand our disgust!

 

Thank all of you who are working on work arounds rather than chiding people for getting and understanding of PPCC.

You can try exporting to FCP XML, as has been suggested. If you came from FCP, you should be used to NLEs not having backward compatibility. As an FCP editor, you also use FCP XML to move to a former version. It would be nice to have backward compatibility, as most agree. If you'd like this, please make a feature request: http://adobe.ly/feature_request

If you would like to edit a project from a previous version, that's not a problem. You can keep multiple versions of Premiere Pro on your hard drive. The problem is updating Premiere Pro mid-project, then trying to go backward to it. It's never advised to do that.

Thanks for understanding.

Kevin

Hi David,
No problem. Feel free to mark the post as helpful, if you like (under the Actions menu).

Thanks,
Kevin

Hi cc_merchant,

cc_merchant wrote:

 

An additional warning is worth mentioning. See the RED warning here: Tweakers Page .

"This is a serious drawback of the trial version, that Adobe conveniently forgets to mention, and also applies to people going back to the perpetual license."

Sounds like a bug. Can you file one for Creative Cloud? http://adobe.ly/ReportBug
I will also look into this issue with my team in Support.

Thanks,
Kevin

Feel free to mark the post as helpful, if you like (under the Actions menu).

I guess, mere users can't mark a post as helpful, 'cos that's the privilege of an OP and MODs.

By the way, what was the use of marking Steven's reply to Motasim, which is neither related to the OP question, nor even addressed the OP, as helpful?

Good points, all, Fuzzy. Thanks.

Kevin

No, thats probably the most helpful advice in this thread." Adobe CC: Get out and cut your losses NOW" is the most helpful advice ANYONE can give [offensive attack expunged by moderator]. That and "lawyer up"

CC 2014 came out and added YET ANOTHER layer of backwards incompatibility. I've been saving after effects files from CC2014 to CC 12 to CS6 for HOURS now. HOURS AND HOURS of my life gone just to keep MY IP.

This works for a vector .ai

Drop CC .ai into distiller > open pdf > select with edit object tool > open in cs6

cheers