how can I open CC files in CS6?.

[TOA Marketing 05]

I made a lot of of templates in CC but not all people has CC so I am planing to make my templates compatible with CS3 (since I am not using any plugin).

[Mylenium]

I am planing to make my templates compatible with CS3 (since I am not using any plugin).

Forget it. It's simply not possible. You are wasting your time even thinking about it. AE version compatibility is a one-way road. You can go from older versions to newer ones, but not the other way around.

Mylenium

[TOA Marketing 05]

what the F* so the only thing I can do is to repeat the process in CS 3?

[Rick Gerard]

If you have a system that will run CC then you install CC, open the project in CC and save it as a CS6, then you install CS6, open the saved file in CS5 and so on until you get to the version you want to use. I think it's a typo that you want to use CS3 for your templates because that was from 2008 and I'll bet that there are not many folks out there using CS3...

If you have a CC Subscription you can go all the way back to CS6 and have them all installed on the same machine. That will let you build projects clear back to CS5 compatibility. Just scroll down to find additional apps and check View Previous versions to install earlier versions of AE.

[TOA Marketing 05]

hey thanks Rick Gerard... you always have a solution for any problems.

[Dave_LaRonde]

toac60227793 wrote:

what the F* so the only thing I can do is to repeat the process in CS 3?

Yup!  With all the versions of AE on the cloud, the farthest you could backsave would be to CS 5.5.  So I guess it's time to get busy.

[Todd_Kopriva · Accepted solution]

Details of saving backward are here:

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