how to save CS6 as CS5.5

[Berabby]

hello all,

Can you advise how to save a CS6 document to be editable in CS5.5 (particularly Photoshop)? I have tried Save As and Export but have not discovered any options to do so.

thanks,

Berabby

[Jon-M-Spear]

Premiere Pro is not backwards compatible.

I'm pretty sure that psd files can open in earlier Photoshop versions, but I'm not 100% sure.

[Berabby]

thank you, kindly Jon

[Nik Nastev]

Open your project file (make a copy for safe) in text editor.

Then change Version="25"  to Version="24" in <Project ObjectID="1" ... row.

After that you can open or import this project in SC5.5.

BR!

[Kostas Arvanitidis]

Projects saved in CS6 can be opened in CS5 (not sure about 5.5 but i think they'll open). Premiere just asks for a new filename (as it does when you try to open a CS5 project in CS6).

I have tried and I can confirm

[Berabby]

Thank you, kindly, Kostas—so far the only thing I found that will not be

recognized

in CS5.5 from CS6 in Photoshop is the new Clone Move/Content Aware tool.

Best, Ess

[John T Smith]

>in CS5.5 from CS6 in Photoshop

Since this is the Premiere forum, you might ask Photoshop questions in http://forums.adobe.com/community/photoshop

[Tudor_Hristescu]

Premiere crashes when I do this and try to open the new edited file. I don't know why...

[Ross A Whitley]

I am in a situation where I am taking over for someone who used Premiere CS 6 and I now have to edit their project but I am using 5.5. I am still in contact with my predecessor but he has never saved a 6 proj as 5.5. Does anyone know where I can find a step by step example I can send him to save the 6 project in 5.5? Thank you

[Guest]

You can't officially save PrPro CS6 project as PrPro CS5.5.

As said in the comment #2, you can open up PrPro CS6 .prproj file in a script editor (e.g. Adobe ExtendScript Toolkit) or even a text editor (preferably, which respects formatting, but doesn't add its own formatting) and then in the fourth line replace Version="25" with Version="24":

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

<PremiereData Version="3">

    <Project ObjectRef="1"/>

    <Project ObjectID="1" ClassID="62ad66dd-0dcd-42da-a660-6d8fbde94876" Version="24">

Keep in mind that everything is at your own peril, and new PrPro CS6 features can't be converted (properly interpreted) to PrPro CS5.5. Some changes in GUI can even cause a crash, as described in the comment #6. To overcome crash issues you can rely on a good old trick of importing a project into a project (i.e. create a brand new PrPro CS5.5 project and import into it the one, within which you replaced Version="25" with Version="24").

[Ross A Whitley]

Thank you, I appreciate the help.