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  • Importation of Premiere preferences

    Posted by Phildebougi on November 5, 2007 at 8:19 am

    I would like to use in Premiere CS3 the preferences (workspaces in particular )that I had defined for Premiere CS2. In this respect, I have copied the

    Phildebougi replied 18 years, 6 months ago 3 Members · 5 Replies
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  • Mike Velte

    November 5, 2007 at 11:05 am

    Preference files are XML and version specific. You might try opening the one from 2.o in Notepad and change the version to 3.

  • Steven L. gotz

    November 5, 2007 at 2:33 pm

    I believe that the changes in the way workspaces actually work might make it impossible to use saved workspaces from an earlier version.

  • Phildebougi

    November 5, 2007 at 5:00 pm

    Steven is probably right since the only XML file which I have in the

  • Mike Velte

    November 5, 2007 at 5:30 pm

    The Pref file has no file extension and Windows sees it only as a “file”, but when opened in Notepad, one can see this
    Dont know if it can be edited without assigning a file type.

  • Phildebougi

    November 6, 2007 at 2:04 pm

    I have opened the
    “C:\Documents and Settings\Phil\Application Data\Adobe\Premiere Pro\2.0\Adobe Premiere Pro Prefs” in Internet Explorer.
    It appears as a well organized long text file but the content is too complicated for analyzing its meaning; I shall reconfigure step by step in PPro CS3 the work area settings and shortcuts settings that I had in PPro CS2. Thank you Mike and Steven.

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