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Opening a CS3 project in CS4
Hi,
I have opened in demo CS4 an HDV project which I had completed with CS3 in order to evaluate the CS4 Export/Media through Adobe Media Encoder feature. After I had closed the project in CS4 I am now unable to re-open it in CS3 ( error message: “…outdated media..”)Furthermore when I try to re-open the project in CS4, the “File importation” window displays for hours and hours and never ends. Is ther any thing that I can do to open the project again in CS3 or CS4? Thank you in advance for your help. -
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Once you save a project in CS4 you cannot go back to CS3.
Hopefully one of your auto-saved files will still be in the CS3 format. Try each of those.
I’m surprised the CS4 Trial even loaded an HDV project. The trial version does not support MPEG of any sort.
Cheers
Eddie -
Thank you very much Eddie,
I remember that in 2002 I had been able to fix a problem with Premiere 6 that I was using at that time (the timeline was empty when I opened the project).
I simply edited the Project file in Notepad and did a find /search for “rate=[number],” and deleted the comma and make it into a period.
Is there any comparable method to reopen a CS4 project in CS3 through a modification of the Project file in Notepad. I am not able to use an autosaved file since I have disabled this option in my Adobe Premiere CS3.Thank you for your assistance. -
Unfortunately not. The project file format has changed drastically between CS3 and CS4. An Adobe engineer could probably manually change a CS4 project to a CS3 project, but for us end users there is no hope.
One workaround would be to export an EDL from CS4 which you will be able to use in CS3.
Cheers
Eddie -
And may I add that turing off the auto save feature has got be the craziest thing I’ve ever heard. I’d be dead of a heart attack without the auto save set to every 10 minuets (and even then sometime it doesn’t auto save for an hour and THEN it crashes – as if just to taunt me!)
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[David Dobson] “then sometime it doesn’t auto save”
I manually save a copy every now and then to avoid that problem. 😉
Cheers
Eddie
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