2 Replies Latest reply: Jun 18, 2013 8:06 AM by BMG Media RSS

    Opening A Premiere Pro CS6 Project in Premiere Pro CS 5.5

    EdwurdAdam Community Member

      I downloaded Premiere Pro CS 6. I already have Premiere Pro CS 5.5 on my computer. I had read you can open up a CS 6 Project in CS 5.5 by doing the following:

       

      1) Saving your project file on your Hard Drive

      2) Copy it just for back up

      3) Right Click (Control Click) on the original Project File and open it up in Text Edit.

      4) On the fourth row Change Version "25" to Version "24"

      5) Save it.

       

       

      I opened up Premiere Pro 5.5 and went to File (that I just changed to open in Premiere CS 5.5) - Open Project - and I then clicked on that file. It started to open up. When Premiere 5.5 was open this dialog box came up:Screen Shot 2013-03-13 at 6.24.47 PM.png

      I clicked OK and everything opened up in 5.5 fine. It worked great. You can open up a CS6 project in Premiere 5.5.

       

      What does this box mean? I installed CS 6 as is. I did not add any third party files or transitions or filters.

       

      Thanks in Advance

        • 1. Re: Opening A Premiere Pro CS6 Project in Premiere Pro CS 5.5
          joe bloe premiere Community Member

          I have not tried it, but I think this is the most recent thread:

          CS6 project readable in older version

          • 2. Re: Opening A Premiere Pro CS6 Project in Premiere Pro CS 5.5
            BMG Media Community Member

            this is the best piece of advice i have found. thankyou so much edwurd. I have premiere pro 5.5 and 6, I had to upgrade to 6 for some commercial work, but half my plugins have now gone into another dimension and 6 doesn;t see them these consist of red giant and new blue fx plugins mostly. These all work great in 5.5 premiere but of course with new projects now in 6 half of them cease to be seen by the plugin loader even though they are in the cache after 11 days of installing and reinstalling still no one can help. I had a huge project i was working layered with all these third party plugins that 6 didn't want to play with anymore, although it used to, I just tried your suggestion. and it worked perfectly, i didn't even get the error box the whole thing / 6 project /  opened beautifully in 5.5 with all plugins functioning and happy. Thankyou again. you are a legend.