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This project was saved from a previous version of Adobe Premiere Pro and must be converted. (Empty project)

Forum|Forum|8 years ago
June 19, 2017
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I am trying to modify a project done last summer on CC 2015 (I believe). My Mac is now running CC 2017. I get the message:

"This project was saved from a previous version of Adobe Premiere Pro and must be converted."

I allow it to convert. When PP opens the new file it is empty.

In another thread I found someone suggested reopening the sequence from the project pane. However, when I go to my project pane, I see no bins and it says 0 items.

Am I missing something obvious or is there more to this?

Thanks in advance for any suggestions!

Tomojo59

R Neil Haugen

Legend

This is a rare thing that can happen. I note the thread is seven years old, with 25 posts ... of the several million dailly users of Premiere Pro. A royal pain certainly.

But it's not the best process anyway. I don't ever just open an old project in a new version.

In the new version, create a project file. From the Media Browser, select the old project file up top, then import the stuff of that ... sequences and such. Try that.

Everyone's mileage always varies ...

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default1lf6s4j06rrg

Participant

Maybe I'm missing something, but I can't do this. The .prproj file doesn't show up as something I can open. I'm still stuck with this issue.

R Neil Haugen

Legend

I didn't say open. I said import.

Not the same.

Simply right-click the project file in the Premiere MediaBrowswer panel, and click the Import option. Normally, you then get a drop-down where you can scroll through for what assets ... like sequences ... to import into the currently open project.

Everyone's mileage always varies ...

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alfredpries

Participant

It's absolutely astonishing that this still can be an issue 7 years later. Mind blown.

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Optimistic_nature5C30

Inspiring

I have a similar problem where I open my 2018 Premiere project file into the 2019 one and while I can see the video on my timeline, the audio has no waveform and thus I cannot hear it. I've tried every solution available in the forum regarding "how to fix audio" or "the waveform doesn't show" but nothing seems to work.

So I came to the conclusion that this is a compatibility issue within Premiere Pro CC 2018 and 2019 after trying to load the original files (the videos before I've edited them) into a totally new 2018 Project file and the video files would play normally being able to hear the audio...

Only problem with this is that I have to re-edit everything from the beginning... I have to work on the same project twice.

Anyone having the same issue and have they found a solution to this?

Thank you,

R Neil Haugen

Legend

He you tried the preferred way of migrating projects ... create a new project in the new version, in Media Browser navigate to and import previous project file?

Neil

Everyone's mileage always varies ...

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Optimistic_nature5C30

Inspiring

Hello Neil,

Thank you for your reply. Yes I've tried this! Did not work, but actually yesterday I found a solution!

I cleaned all my media cache files both from premiere (Edit > Preferences > Media Cache > Delete Unused) and from the actual file where there where saved on my pc (Find the location from going to Edit > Preferences > Media Cache and under Media Cache Files you can see the Location path). This was actually so easy to do and solved my problem straight away! Who would have thought! I saved a copy of the Media Cache folders before deleting their content on my desktop just to make sure if anything went wrong I would just copy what is needed back. I would recommend people to do the same and maybe delete after you make sure your projects work just fine!

Thank you,

Myrto

sharonl30000877

Participant

This is happening to me too. Has anyone found a solution?

geneh62704914

Participant

Ok. I opened a new project and imported the old (project saved from previous version). All of my files loaded into the project panel but nothing in the timeline. I went into the project panel files and found the sequence I had used for my project. It was a MVI_xxxx file (will be different for you) which will show it as a sequence if you hover over it. WITHOUT dragging it to the timeline, right click on it and select open in timeline. All edits reappeared.

geneh62704914

Participant

Just happened to me. What is solution?

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fatih mehmetk46892454

Participant

Same problem

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liamg36607358

Participant

I am having the EXACT same problem. Any solutions?? Someone please help !

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dylank88087171

Participant

I'm having the same problem. I've tried all of the suggestions in this thread and none of them changed anything, still just a blank project. Has anyone found a solution to this?

Kevin-Monahan

Community Manager

Can you show us a screenshot of what you see? I have a feeling that your workspaces just need to be reset.

Thanks,

Kevin

Kevin Monahan - Sr. Community and Engagement Strategist – Adobe Pro Video and Audio

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dylank88087171

Participant

I've tried hitting Reset to Saved Layout and that didn't work. I also tried importing the project and that also changed nothing.

Ann Bens

Community Expert

I am now guessing the not the project but the workspace is empty.

Try hitting Reset to Saved Layout a couple of times.

kulpreet singh

Inspiring

Hi Tomojo59,

Can you please confirm if the issue that you were facing has been resolved or not?

In case if it hasn't been fixed yet please let us know and I will be glad to assist you.

Thanks,

Kulpreet Singh

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mvinal

Participant

I get the same issue, in fact, every time Premiere Pro updates through my Creative Cloud subscription, and then I try to open one of these files, I get the same warning.

I have to rename my files after every update.

Suggestions?

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