Ability to use PP 17 as well as PP 18 at the same time due to not supporting 32 bit quicktime

[aaronw81645942]

This issue with PP 18 not supporting 32 bit quicktime has been a real problem for many of us. For me my main client delivers their show to me in the 32 bit format and for them to switch to a different format is a big deal and very expensive. Because of this I can't upgrade PP any further than 17 and that in turn effects me being able to update Media Encoder as Encoder 18 doesn't like to work with PP 17 on these files. I get crashes all of the time while trying to render so I have to render within Premier and then I can't work on other projects until the render is done. Its maddening and hurting my business.

As I understand it, you can only be active with one version of Premiere at a time. So you either have to upgrade or stay on 17. Because of this 32 bit ,issue which has nothing to do with its consumers, Adobe should allow users to use both PP 17 and subsequent updates concurrently moving forward or else some of us will be stuck on 17 for the foreseeable future which will cause all sorts of other problems.

[Stan Jones]

I thought the answer would be that you can use both by opening AME 2017 and importing a PR 2018 project. But I now think the answer is no, and wonder if I missed something.

You can certainly have multiple major versions installed. (Major meaning 2017 and 2018; not 2018.0.1 and 2018.1.2.)

But I just opened AME 2017 and get an error if I try to open a 2018.1.x project. This is true even if I set preferences to "import natively" (to bypass dynamic link). If I edit the PR file to set the version level lower than 2017, it will import, but one of the sequences was greyed out. This might work if you can import the sequences you work with.

So the only way I see to get what you want is exporting a lossless intermediary from PR 2018 and importing that to AME 2017 to get the exports you want.

[R Neil Haugen]

As Stan notes, you can have multiple versions installed as long as they are different build series. In the Help/About graphic box, you can see the version in number-dot-number form.

2017 builds are 11.x, 2018 builds are 12.x.

So yes, you can have both PrPro/Me 2017 and PrPro/Me 2018 installed at the same time. I've frequently had up to four complete sets of PrPro, AfterEffects, Audition, and SpeedGrade (good old days!) installed at the same time.

If you need to work in 2017 for a client, just make sure you've got the appropriate version of Me also.

Neil

[Trevor_Asq]

If you really want to keep dot releases too then rename the enclosing folder (eg to PP2017.1.2). I’m sure it’s not supported & I’ve never used it on a production machine, but it’s been fine on my laptop. (Rename the app too so you know which one you are running).

Works for Resolve too.