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Risks of Converting Mid-project
Peace to all. I’d like to hear your kind advice on the risks of converting a project made in Pr 2023 to continue it in Pr 2024. I know it’s risky to update anything mid-project. My feature film project was corrupted so I’m faced with these options:
1) recover a recent auto-save (seems safest); or…
2) open it in Pr 2024, save, downgrade, convert, and open in Pr 2023; or…
3) open it in Pr 2024 and finish the production in Pr 2024 (I tried it and was so glad to see the quirky project panel had greatly improved).
I feel inclined to try the last option but I need your advice on weighing the risks of all options. Please let me know. Thanks!
I’m presently on OSX Ventura 13.
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7 Replies
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Hey Robert,
So sorry to hear about your corrupted project.
I would start with Option 1, but only after the corrupted project has been copied to somewhere safe.
Option 2 and 3 seem to be a long way around, just to end up in the same place.
Out of interest, have you tried to set-up a new project, and import just the last good Sequence from the corrupted project?
Also, when you say “corrupted”, can you describe what happens when opening the current project?
Atb
Mads -
Vote for Option 1 also … I still use Adobe Pr but only “in the office” per project requirements (otherwise DaVinci Resolve for majority projects). Pr 2024 is not going to make things less stable, in fact likely the opposite. Also Pr 2024 has higher list of requirements both OS and hardware.
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Thanks, Mads! I should try that. I called it corrupted because Pr won’t open it. As I recall the error message said it might be corrupted.
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Important info. Thanks!
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The error message I was getting when I had tried to open the “corrupted” project said: “The project could not be loaded, it may be damaged or contain outdated elements.”
I just tried your suggestion to import the sequence I need into a new project. That really seems like the best solution. Also because over the course of a year I had accumulated so much junk in the project panel that the media search wasn’t functioning, but now in the new project it works! Great idea! 🙂Thank you so much, Mads!
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Hey Robert,
I am so really pleased for you.
In distant past I have worked on feature films where either the project data was wrong, or in other cases the drives lost all the footage (not on Adobe, as back then it was yet to reach v2….). But the cost and time in fixing such situation, in one instance cost my client £ 10K, simply because of a TimeCode conversion gone wrong.
Please do me a favour: If you now have a good version of your project, please save a copy of it. And preferably to a cloud drive (Belt & braces). Make it a habit to do it every day, even if you eventually will end up with a version 60, you should never lose more than one days work.
Good Speed!
Atb
Mads -
Thank you very much, Mads. I appreciate your kindness. God bless you!
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