Convert AEP from 2003 to 2023

[Sean Oak]

I am trying to recover a project file .aep project file from 2003. Is there somebody or a service I can use to do this as I do not have any older versions of after effects to use?

Thanks in advance!

[Rick Gerard]

That file is probably from CS2. You would need to find somebody with an old machine that has something like CS6 to open the file and update it. The latest version just converted a CS 6 file (11.0) without any problems. I'm pretty sure that a CS6 version would open a CS2 file. 

[Sean Oak]

Great - thanks for your help Rick