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help opening CS3 files from WIN XP to a MAC
I have been a MAC guy for years and started working for a studio that uses the adobe CS3 suite. Today we moved the platform from win XP to MAC. I am new to leopard but I am not all thumb, thus proficient in tiger.
My question. There are CS3 projects saved on the windows hard drives. I have been trying to open them via network on the MAC. I have also copied whole folders over to the MAC HD. I can’t get the files to open the same way. CS3 is looking for files and I am having trouble getting the MAC to do a search over the network to reconnect them.
I have been on CS3 for 3 weeks, so I am still learning. I have been an FCP user for over three years, so I am getting confused going between both applications.
Is there a way to move windows saved projects over the the MAC, open and edit them? Someone suggested trimming the files before moving them over.
Thoughts or Theories?
G5, 1.7, 4MB RAM, 30″cine, G4, 1.6 2MB RAM, Mbox, Neumann TLM-103, FCP HD 5. Pro Tools, Adobe Creative Suite, Reason 3.0, Macromedia Studio, ProAnimator, HVX200 with Firestore v4.0
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I’m not sure what your problem is. If you are having problems accessing files over a network, then you need to move all files to the local disk(s).
If you are trying to open Premiere Pro CS3 projects that were previously saved on a Windows computer, there shouldn’t be any problem at all opening them up on a Mac with CS3 installed. The only reason why you won’t be able to open Windows Premiere projects is if they were saved with older versions of Premiere Pro.
Are you sure the Windows Premiere projects used CS3? I had to convert all my old Windows Premiere CS1 files into Mac-compatible CS3 files by first downloading the trial version of Premiere Pro CS3 for Windows, opening the CS1 projects with CS3, Saving As, and then opening these newly saved files on the Mac. You then simply re-link your asset files if necessary.
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Thanks for the insight. Everything was CS3 win and MAC. I just had to open the project and tell the MAC where to go to get the individual files. It can be laborious, since show intros and graphics are scattered on other drives, but we are putting together a workflow/filing system that should make things a lot easier.
I am not busting on XP, but I am glad I am back on MAC. I didn’t have to restart the MAC all day. I only had one CS3 crash because I pushed it too hard. Now I can learn its boundaries and be productive.
Again, I am not biased, but what would we do without the MAC OS and its stability.
G5, 1.7, 4MB RAM, 30″cine, G4, 1.6 2MB RAM, Mbox, Neumann TLM-103, FCP HD 5. Pro Tools, Adobe Creative Suite, Reason 3.0, Macromedia Studio, ProAnimator, HVX200 with Firestore v4.0
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