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jonbwgm
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December 6, 2012
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Older version of After Effects to open old file?

  • December 6, 2012
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I have tons of projects in After Effects 6.  One of the reasons I joined Adobe Cloud was because I want to update to OSX Mountain Lion and AE6 won't run on ML.  I just attempted to open one of my old projects, and get the error message "This file was created with an older version of After Effects [6.0(Macintosh PPC)], and can't be opened.  You can convert this file using an older version of After Effects and resaving."  Well, I only have access to my copy of AE6, is it possible through the Adobe Cloud to get a version of After Effects that will open these files so I can up-convert it?  Or any other method to get these files to open in the newest version of AE?  Re-building is not really an option, these are projects that are years old and are continually being updated with text.

      Correct answer Todd_Kopriva

      Yes, that should be easy. I'll make such a table tomorrow and post it on the After Effects team blog:

      http://blogs.adobe.com/aftereffects

      If you haven't seen the post from me there by the end of the business day tomorrow (Pacific Time), remind me.


      Here you go; this article give the details for all of the versions going back to After Effects 7.0:

      "opening After Effects projects from previous versions and saving back to previous versions"

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      Sandrewb
      Sandrewb
      Participant
      February 9, 2016

      Hello, I have a project that I had done in AE 3.1. Your chart says I need up open in 7.0 then I can open in CC. I think I have searched and looked everywhere and I can only find one link to dl 7.0 but it was for PC. Any ideas where I can find a copy of AE 7.0 so that I can open this project. Note: I do have an old Pod iMac in the basement with a PPC chip to install AE 7.0 on.

      Sandrewb
      Sandrewb
      Participant
      February 9, 2016

      Just realized that AE 7.0 is actually in the CS2 suite. Just finished dl.

      Ken G. Rice
      Community Manager
      Ken G. RiceCommunity Manager
      Community Manager
      December 6, 2012

      Versions of the applications older than CS6 are not available through the Creative Cloud.

      Moved from the Creative Cloud to the After Effects forum. Someone here may know of a way to resolve your issue.

      Todd_Kopriva
      Todd_Kopriva
      Inspiring
      December 6, 2012

      After Effects CS5 can open and import After Effects projects created by After Effects 6.0 and later.

      Find someone with After Effects CS5, and use that version to resave your projects.

      J
      jdavidbakr22
      Participating Frequently
      December 6, 2012

      It looks like Ken and I think alike (and at exactly the same time).


      Thank you!  That looks like that's exactly what I need.  I'll give that a whirl.

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