FAQ: Prior major releases of Premiere, Audition, Prelude and AME have been removed

Hi Danniel,

You can try contacting Adobe to ask, but they only support the current release and the one prior, so it's not likely that you'd be able to get installers from that far back. Sorry, wish we could help more!

Thanks @kglad,

unfortunately it looks like that's true.

As another user and long-time computer user for business, I hear you. Our first business computer was around 1988. I've got a drawer for the heck, of it near filled with installation disks from expensive programs ... like I think I spent over $500 for a dBase version around early 90's. Hasn't been anyone able to work with dBase for years, dead dead dead. I've got quite a few long-gone apps that had our business & client data in them. Sometimes when they went "poof" we could migrate most things forward ... sometimes ... not so much.

Operating systems never ever last more than a few years. Win8.1 is a dinosaur. I loved XP ... went from that to Win7. Then from that to 10. Set up right, there's really no working difference between 7 & 10. Except a couple older machines we brought up to 10 worked a lot faster than they had in Win7. One of them was supposedly "incapable" of using Win10, but actually it gave that rig another usable year of life.

No company ever brings back older versions. Period, end of story. They are gone. And the OS makers really push especially the large vendors to not allow the use of their apps on 'deprecated' versions because as they are not supporting them for security fixes any more, they don't want them in use.

It's Life.

Neil

Hi Neil

Well - easy - one of my recent discoveries (reason why I wrote here this angry reply): Adobe Animate can only import video in FLV format.  Most of my videos are in MOV format, so when I try to import a video into Adobe Animate, it sends me to Media Encoder to convert this video to FLV. Surprize surprize - there is NO(!) FLV format in AME! So - first question - why does it suggest to use AME? and second - what am I supposed to do? I have no way to import a video into Animate using Adobe software. Really?! A software that is dedicated to animation cannot import a video? I was long time a beta tester for Adobe Animate, and some good changes were done with my participation, and I appreciate the great work and effort that the developers are doing now to bring Animate up to the professional animation level (although I think it still laks some important features), but such basic features like not being able to import a video is simply not acceptable! Finally I had to use some online conversion tool, that created the FLV for me. Imagine converting dozens of files like that...

One more discovery was the new Brushes and Erasers system in Adobe Photoshop that so many people complain about, but Adobe wouldn't listen. Ever since beginning of times Photoshop used the same brushes for Painting and Erasing. I mean - I could just use any brush as a brush or as an eraser. Ever since 2018 it's not the case any more. Now I need to create a preset for each tool separately - long and painful process – and I cannot use a brush as an eraser anymore. Why the heck did anybody ever thought about changing something that worked perfectly for more than 20 years?! It's like taking a car and deciding - Ok, let's do something new.. hmm - what? well - let's put the clutch instead of the gas pedal, and the gas pedal instead of the steering wheel, and the steering wheel at the passenger seat, and tell everybody we made a new better car.

This is the reason I have to stay with Photoshop 2017, and never update it again as long as I can.

I still have disks with some really old Adobe software, that I thought I would never need again, but the way it is going, I am afraid it's a good thing I kept them...

You may be able to find other software that can do the job.  It may even do the job better.  Adobe's implementation was never all that...useful.

Adobe Premiere Pro System Requirements

Not sure why you cannot run newer releases (CC 2017/2018/2019) if you think your system can support them; you'd have to post more details (in a separate/new thread) in order for us to help you with that... Try to be as specific as possible about any errors or messages you receive.

Since CC 2015 and CC 2014 are not available, could you possibly run CC 2013 instead? It's older, but at least that version is still available.

No, they're not the same. Here are all the different products' system requirements from Adobe:

Adobe Creative Cloud system requirements

For any individual app, you can see the prior versions' minimum specs by following the link at the top for "System requirements for earlier releases." That will give the details for all CC releases, even if some of those prior releases are unfortunately no longer available.

Fascinating. Among other things, I create tutorials for a major colorist subscription teaching service. Where naturally Resolve is an assumed base skill, and knowledge of Avid, Baselight et al are also considered wise.

And therefore I monitor or participate in a few other more specialized forums. Where there are discussions as to whether any "dot" of Resolve 15 is ready for pro use, and if so, which one.

Because naturally of all the bugs, playback issues, crashes ... leaving many to state no 15.x version of Resolve is ready for pro use.

Personally I haven't installed the most recently released 15.x, but the prior one is stable for me, though playback of the same H 264 isn't as good or smooth as with Pr. The UI is rather more limited in ability to modify workspaces.

If you like it, fine. Of course, as you can only have one version total of Resolve installed at one time, unlike with Adobe where you can have multiple major versions simultaneously installed.

So if you have a 14.x Resolve project and wish to stay in that, you have to uninstall the 15.x version and install 14.x. Then uninstall 14.x and reinstall 15.x

Neil