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CS6 cross plat form use ?
Anyone know if you can create a project in premiere pro cs6 on a mac and open the same project on a PC?
A friend of mine is asking me to do some editing for him and he’s currently on CS5 moving to CS6, he’s on a PC.
I’m moving from FCP 7 to CS6 but on a Mac, can this be done?
THX
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anyone ?
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As far as I know, Premiere Pro files have always been cross-platform compatible. Have I tested it? No. Your best bet is to wait until you both have stable installs of CS6 (all updates done), then do a couple of tests with small projects (or an early version of your actual project). The problems I’ve ever had between PC and Mac have always been font related, but that’s only been with After Effects and Illustrator files.
Joe Bourke
Owner/Creative Director
Bourke Media
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There might be some of the fancier video transitions that might not be compatible…
but you standard stuff should work just fine….
give it a test…
Alex
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Thx Joseph for taking the time to respond. I just got off the phone with Adobe and they said I should be able to open project file regardless of the OS it was created in. It sounded to good to be true and I thought it was just sales speak but I’m pretty much getting the same from you so it makes me feel better about it.
It is for mostly back up or archival purposes really, he won’t be re-editing what I produce for him but in case the client wants to make a change a few months later he can work on it.
THX
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Thx you Alex,
I kinda thought that would be the case I figured I’d ask guys who are knee deep in Premiere before I go out and make a good friend a promise I cant keep. I’m stoked about the new version of PP and I’m tired of fiddling around with old technology like FCP 7.
FCP 7 was good while it lasted, last one into PP is a rotten egg ! lol…
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Thanks Carlos –
Just for reference, you may want to manage your file in PPro before you send it out. This will give your friend only the elements which were actually used in the project, and “trim the fat”, so to speak. Here’s a brief blurb on what the PPro manager can do:
https://help.adobe.com/en_US/premierepro/cs/using/WS1c9bc5c2e465a58a91cf0b1038518aef7-7c74a.htmlThere are quite a few options available to you, depending on what you want to archive.
Joe Bourke
Owner/Creative Director
Bourke Media
http://www.bourkemedia.com -
Thx Joseph !
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Yeah it is possible and fairly simple, last year I migrated mid-project from mac to PC in CS5.5. The only thing is some codecs inside quicktime containers may require purchasing 3rd party tools to work with in windows(like HDV/xdcam clips in a .mov container), but your project may not have any of them so it could work right away with no additional codecs.
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YES.
We are large facility currently working with Macs on a network that has both PCs and Macs. Just this morning I hooked up my dual-core win7 laptop to the network, opened a CS6 project originally created on a Mac Pro, and everything popped up and played fine, including the ProRes files.
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