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  • What the what? After effects 2019 cannot save for earlier versions?

    Posted by Richard Garabedain on January 22, 2019 at 3:50 pm

    I don’t understand. we are slowly upgrading our computers to windows 10. But what we did not know was that once you open a project in AE 2019 windows 10, it cannot be opened on other computers or saved for earlier versions. What on earth? We saved it as ae 15 and ae 14 and XML and none of them would open on 2018 AE….Now..adobe doesnt care…but now that I know I can avoid that problem..

    Walter Soyka replied 7 years, 3 months ago 2 Members · 3 Replies
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  • Richard Garabedain

    January 22, 2019 at 4:09 pm

    It “can ” save for earlier versions..however they cannot be opened with AE 2018 or below…at least in our case where only the 1 computer is widows 10…for the time being

  • Richard Garabedain

    January 22, 2019 at 4:57 pm

    it sure is 🙂

  • Walter Soyka

    January 22, 2019 at 5:41 pm

    [Richard Garabedain] “I don’t understand. we are slowly upgrading our computers to windows 10. But what we did not know was that once you open a project in AE 2019 windows 10, it cannot be opened on other computers or saved for earlier versions. “

    You have never been able to directly open a newer AEP from an older version of Ae.

    You can save down from Ae 2019 to Ae 2018 via File > Save As > Save a copy as CC (15.x) — I know this works because I just did it yesterday — but of course if your project is dependent on a new feature in 2019, that will not work.

    Did you get a specific error message?

    Walter Soyka
    Designer & Mad Scientist at Keen Live [link]
    Motion Graphics, Widescreen Events, Presentation Design, and Consulting
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