Saving After Effects CS4 as CS3

[Chris Bruner]

I have been trying this also with a PPC with many error messages (files import but project does not) If I have to suck it up as well I will, but in the off chance anyone from Adobe views this: this is an important feature of compatibility from machine to machine.

Chris

chris@ieditvids.com
Currently freelance. Not by choice :>
FCP/After Effects

[Marc Thomas]

Thanks again Jose!

If anyone else is stupid like me… and didn’t realize that the Notepad document is REALLY wide and you have to scroll to find the the end of the header… well… now you know. haha.

In Notepad, you can go to “Edit”,”Find”… and type “º”, and click “find next” until you find the end of the header (since it ends with a “º”).

I was able to find the entire header this time… but I still wasn’t able to get it to import (even after changing the version #).

Hopefully you guys have better results.

Good luck!

[Marc Thomas]

Thanks again Jose!

If anyone else is stupid like me… and didn’t realize that the Notepad document is REALLY wide and you have to scroll to find the the end of the header… well… now you know. haha.

In Notepad, you can go to “Edit”,”Find”… and type “º”, and click “find next” until you find the end of the header (since it ends with a “º”).

I was able to find the entire header this time… but I still wasn’t able to get it to import (even after changing the version #).

Hopefully you guys have better results.

Good luck!

[Benjamin Pastrana]

great tip! I h

I tried to do it with a CS4 document to be open with CS3 but it doesn’t work…..

cs3 file header is different:

RIFX

[Michael Lansdell]

This is extremely hopeful, but… Has anyone had any success doing this with CS5 to CS4? I tried the copy and paste method but it didn’t work.

Cheers,

M

[Paul Tuersley]

I’ve just released a script that can help with this:
https://aescripts.com/pt_opensesame/

OpenSesame brings backwards compatibility to After Effects, exporting projects that can be opened in any version from CS3 or later. Projects are exported as human readable text files that can also be edited in a text editor or spreadsheet in various ways, such as changing text layers, colors, footage and file paths.

Paul