• Adobe After Effects

  AE 6.5 to CS5 questions

  Posted by Zac Taylor on March 23, 2011 at 6:19 pm

  Hello. I looked in previous threads but did not see an answer to my question, so I appoligize if this has been asked before.

  I recently got a new computer and upgraded from windows XP 32 bit to windows 7 64 bit. AE 6.5 does not seem to work properly and so I am consideing buying AE CS5. I have many projects I do not want to lose (or have time to redo) Will I be able to open and or edit my old 6.5 projects on CS5?
  I hope so!
  If not is there a way to make 6.5 work properly on windows 7?
  Thanks for any and all help.

  Walter Soyka replied 15 years, 6 months ago 3 Members · 2 Replies
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  Tudor “ted” jelescu

  March 23, 2011 at 6:26 pm

  Maybe AE 6.5 needs to run in legacy mode
  https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/ee851564.aspx

  CS5 should be able to open all your 6.5 projects as long as you have all the plugins used in the original project.

  Tudor “Ted” Jelescu
  Senior VFX Artist
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  Walter Soyka

  March 23, 2011 at 6:41 pm

  CS5 can open or import projects created in AE 6.0 or later.

  [Tudor "Ted" Jelescu] “CS5 should be able to open all your 6.5 projects as long as you have all the plugins used in the original project.”

  Remember that CS5 is 64-bit, and requires updates to all your plugins. Your current plugins from 6.5 will not work, and must be updated. Some updates are free, some are paid upgrades; it varies by publisher and product.

  Also, sometimes vastly different versions of a plugin do not automatically translate and must be redone by hand — see this recent thread Installing older plug-ins [link].

  Walter Soyka
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