Please stop making it so difficult to work with different Premiere-versions!

I'm going to take this opportunity to ask why we need to install a whole different version, or have a different computer just to read an xml file with one line of difference in it? The version line.

This is a way to force people to use their newest version, and keep paying them for it. It is simply a business model nothing more.

Imagine if you have an Aftereffect 2018 it is doing the job, but if you collaborate with someone who uses the newest version of AE, you can't actually open the project files in your 2018 version,

This either forces you to upgrade or use their subscription solutions, either way this is $$$ for Adobe...

I continue to see replies on all Adobe forums from the Adobe admins thanking us and they'll take it under advisement. In meantime here's a band-aid. This goes on year after year ever since you created the Creative Cloud. It's nonesense.
Stop making it so hard to work with your core programs! Just created a project today, now I can't reopen because it forces me to use the newer version. When I do, now the project has bugs and I had to start from scratch!
Over and over and over and over again you continue to destroy your name within this industry.

How about you take that under advisement.

Just a thought but is Adobe working on too many products simultaneously and ignoring their core productivity apps as a result? One example: the recent inability to use the export function for audio tracks directly into Audition has killed our pipeline. Maybe this should be a top priority since it was a core function of Pr which worked right up to 2020. Again, just a thought.

It's absolutely ridiculous having to export to FINAL CUT XML to move edit's between different Premiere users.

Please allow for backwards compatibility between versions of Adobe Premiere. It is very difficult to work on a project with different people in a company, or outside client, when we all have different versions of a project & one of us can't open or edit a project created in a "newer" version of the same software. This is unnecessary & incredibly limiting.'

"while this is a rather critical and large change to the way the application works'

If that is the case then is something wrong with the way your application works. The basic elements of a sequence, cuts, tracks basic transitions, should gracefully move from product version to product version. I wonder if you are tying properties of the clips to the sequence rather than applying them to the clips.

I mean, I can open Media Composer projects from the 90s in current version of MC. And send them to people still using AVBV and Meridian systems, who can also open them.

It's not a biggie if certain filters/effects don't work.

Hello Everyone,



I am experiencing a very difficult time on this subject. Really appreciate the help



I was using Yosemite with adobe cc 2015 on my mac, however I've dropped by laptop last week and to be able to save it Mac Team had to format it.

And also they upgrade it to Sierra.



Luckly, I was keeping the back up of my premiere project in a hard drive.



Once my laptop arrived I downloed adobe cc 2015 to be able to open the projects, but it was giving me the warning:

The project was saved in a newer version of premiere pro and cannot be opened in this version.



I thought so maybe I download the old version of 2015 so I've downloaded the highest version of cc 2015.

But it gave me the same warning:

The project was saved in a newer version of premiere pro and cannot be opened in this version.



Then, because this is my feature film that I was working on it for 3 years. I started to panic and I download the Premiere pro cc 2017. I thought... This can't be older than the 2015 version I was using.

But No!

But it gave me the same warning:

The project was saved in a newer version of premiere pro and cannot be opened in this version.



I contacted with adobe support team, they can't understant the reason and they couldn't find a solution other than exporting as XML.



Which is very difficult for my project because I have 40 different projects file.

I used this website downgraded my files : Premiere Pro Downgrader

and it worked

It is opening right now.

But the image quality of the program is not good as it was.



And after all this I feel scared of this process.

Can anyone know the reason of this

And have a greater solution that converting the project on online website.



All the best,

This. It's not like we're trying to open new versions with something created in 1957. It's pretty obnoxious and tone deaf.