I created a video file using Photoshop 22.
The PSD file itself states: Adobe Photoshop 22.3 (Windows)
It is a fairly simple file that uses an external video source file (ProRes converted professionally from an 8mm film with no audio) and an MP3 for background music.
I just tried to open this file in Photoshop 2025 and the beta which is also installed on this PC.
The file opens without any error message, however:
- Sometimes the file opens without the video resource at all, other times it opens the video file but when I play it or render the video it shows only the first frame of each section (I cut the video to pieces as I needed to apply different filtering to each section).
- It opens without the audio file, meaning when I play the video in Photoshop or play the rendered MP4 it's muted.
Stuff I did to try and figure it out:
- Opened the PSD in a hex editor to confirm I didn't move files (I didn't, the relative paths are the same as the files)
- Converted the same source ProRes to MP4 with Adobe Media Encoder 2025 and it worked fine (i.e. the ProRes is not damaged).
- Tried both versions of Photoshop that I have on the machine, same problems as described.
- Installed Photoshop 22.2 through the Adobe app and it opened successfully, meaning that the file is perfectly fine but newer versions of Photoshop are broken or not backward compatible in some way.
- I saved the file again (different file name) with the 22.2 version that I just installed, and now it opens correctly in the new versions of Photoshop.
So bottom line - the file I saved 3 years ago opened fine in 22.2 but not in the current shipping version or the beta. Once I opened and saved the file with 22.2, the newly saved file opens fine in the new versions.
This is of course very concerning and took me about 3 hours to try different things until I found this "solution" which I shouldn't have had to look for in the first place.
I am attaching the old PSD and newly saved one so you can try and figure out what happened and make sure these incompatibility issues are solved.
Thanks!
The question is - how do I somehow make this PSD file compatible with newer versions of Photoshop?