Any way to open AE5 project in AE4?

[Kevin Camp]

my best guess on cs5 not running on your servers, is that they are not running a 64-bit os (cs5 requires 64-bit)….

however, you cannot open a cs5 project in cs4, you can copy/paste values from one to the other if you have both running on the same machine, but that is often impractical.

if you do upgrade to cs5, note that in addition to the os needing to be 64-bit, any 3rd party plugins that you have will need to be 64-bit, as will any codecs that are used in footage within your projects.

and of course, with a 64-bit os, you’ll need 64-bit versions of any drivers for necessary hardware (most of those should be easy to find now-a-days).

Kevin Camp
Senior Designer
KCPQ, KMYQ & KRCW

[Dan Underhill]

Hi Kevin,

Thanks for the reply. My Win Server 2003 is definitely 64-bit, along with the version of AE5 that I installed. Everything goes fine for the installation, but when I launch AE5 I then get the error about it not being able to run on this older OS. All of the other software I’m running is 64 bit too, and they are the latest versions of various 3D apps and they run fine.

If I could copy/paste from AE5 to AE4 then I would have no need to do it because I would obviously have AE5 running in the first place. Anyone here running Win Server 2008 with AE5 and can confirm it works?

[Walter Soyka]

Windows 2008 is not officially supported, and I haven’t run across anyone running this configuration.

From the system requirements:

64-bit operating system required: Microsoft® Windows Vista® Home Premium, Business, Ultimate, or Enterprise with Service Pack 1 or Windows® 7

I’d also refer you to this thread on the Adobe forums, mentioning some potential pitfalls in trying to run AE CS5 on Window Server 2008:

https://forums.adobe.com/message/2815228

Even if it does install and run, you’ll have nowhere to turn for support if there are any problems.

[Dan Underhill] “If I could copy/paste from AE5 to AE4 then I would have no need to do it because I would obviously have AE5 running in the first place.”

I think that Kevin was suggesting using the copy/paste trick to create a CS4 project on a supported workstation (or have your collaborator do this for you), then using the CS4 project for your network render on your Win2003 machines.

Walter Soyka
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[Kevin Camp]

[Walter Soyka] “I think that Kevin was suggesting using the copy/paste trick to create a CS4 project on a supported workstation (or have your collaborator do this for you), then using the CS4 project for your network render on your Win2003 machines.”

yep… it’s not an elegant solution, and not knowing anything about the project’s complexity, it’s hard to say if it would be worthwhile. but when you factor what will be involved with upgrading, it may…

or, i suppose you could just go with out the extra render nodes for a bit.

Kevin Camp
Senior Designer
KCPQ, KMYQ & KRCW