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AE6.5 & 7.0
I’ve few AE 6.5 projects on my harddrive, unfinished projects.
Recently I purchased AE 7.0. I’d like to install 7.0 now and do a few comparitive tests utililizing two AE 6.5 project files and source files. Is it possible to install 7.0 on the same root drive as 6.5 and keep the original 6.5 AE project file[s] intact (without them being updated to 7.0 whether I open the 6.5 AE project file or not)
Thanks
David Healy -
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Yes. AE 6.5 and 7.0 (and 6.0, and 5.5, and any other version I know of) can co-exist on the same machine without a problem.
7.0 doesn’t overwrite project files from earlier versions. When you open an earlier version’s project in 7.0, it’s opened as an untitled project. You’ll get a warning about this. As long as you don’t save over the original you’re fine. (You can’t open a 7.0 project in the earlier versions, of course.)
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Thank you very much, Tim
David Healy
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You can install both versions on the drive. Just install AE 7 into a directory called “after effects 7.0” or similar. I believe the installer does that by default.
You will then be able to open 6.5 projects in 6.5. However, when you open a 6.5 project in 7, it alters the project and calls it “untitled project” until you save it. You have the choice to save it under the old name (overwriting the old project) or under a new name (keeping the old project intact).
AE does not automatically convert project files to v.7. You have to open them in v.7, and save them while working in v.7. I have three versions of AE (sometimes four) on any computer, and a project does not change until I open it and choose to save.
However, that project, once opened and saved in 7.0, cannot be opened in 6.5 again. And you cannot save a project as 6.5 while working in v.7.
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Thanks, Steve….
DHealy
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