Saving premiere cc 2019 project as cc 2018?

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October 27, 2018
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I may be mistaken but I thought this used to be a thing. I wanted to try the new cc 2019 for a bit (and yes I know that this is risky to use new software once it's been released). So yes I found bugs and it keeps crashing sporadically on copy and pasting a clip in a sequence and moving that said clip.

Either way I just want to save my work and go back to cc 2018 for a bit but there's not an option for this. Do I just lose my work?

Quick note it's a sound synced multi-cam sequence embedded into another so Final Cut XML will not work here.

Thoughts?

How to

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Correct answer caroline_edits

Hey team!

We've visualized the solution for you in hopes that it'll make opening a Premiere project in a previous version a little bit easier on you. Let me know if you have any feedback!

I'd recommend performing this process on a copy of your .prproj file, just in case something goes awry! Note that features that are only available in the latest version of the app will NOT be converted with your project if you downgrade to a version of the app that does not have those features available. Feel free to reach out with any questions!

Happy to help!

Caroline

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johnb26818332175692

Participant

Might I say this is crazy. Adobe what is up... Obviously you can open a 2019 project in 2018 it just takes a lot of steps. Why not have a save copy in previous version? Post a lot of warning about what might not work, but give us a chance. I have a very basic video project I need to hand over to a coworker who is still using 2018. You are making me jump through hoops. NOT COOL ADOBE! Not cool at all. My opinion of the company just went down a notch. In the future I am certainly going to hold off upgrading to the next version of Premiere as long as I can to stay compatible with as many of my associates as possible.

R Neil Haugen

Legend

There are so many users that would appreciate an option that would do as you say. Offer to revert, with warnings that "X feature is unavailable in that version and will be disabled".

Adobe is driven by metrics. So go over to the links to the UserVoice system and vote up on both of the two top requests for this. Enough metrics, the upper managers open the budget bag to get something done.

Neil

Save for a previous version of Premiere – Adobe video & audio apps

Please allow backwards compatibility between previous & newer versions of Premiere. – Adobe video & audio apps

Everyone's mileage always varies ...

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Willie Frazier

Known Participant

Sure - though its patently absurd that we should have to do that for what should be 'no-brainer' funcionality. The feature parity in their apps is beyond frustrating. For me - what I encoutner the most - its the layered PSD imprort / export in to / out of After Effects that drives me out of my mind. They really need to put a pause on adding shiny new crap and instead make these applications work together like a proper ecosystem.

Sorry - not really trying to vent at you, but having just stumbled acoss this thread after having need to save a Premiere 2020 file down to 2019 only discover its basically impossible just pushed my button. lol...

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gstuff720

Inspiring

Is there a mac OS equivalent to 7-zip?

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mslinn

Participant

7zip can perform multiple types of compression. The one used by Premiere Pro is gzip/gunzip. The Mac command line/console provides gunzip by default. See macos - Command to 'gzip' a folder? - Super User

7zip is not required for Mac or PC, all that is required is gzip/gunzip

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gstuff720

Inspiring

Command line amateur here.

So where the above instructions say [right-click on the remaining file, go to 7-zip/extract here] I would [gunzip filename.prproj] in the Console? Then change the document in a text editor, and gzip back to a .prproj?

Thanks for holding my hand.