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February 29, 2020
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  • February 29, 2020
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Hello everyone. i have a mac pro book from 2010 and can no longer update due to its age. I wanted to know if there is the possibility of installing an older version of adobe premiere pro, compatible with my laptop. I have the version of "el capitan 10.11.6" thanks to everyone

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Legend
February 29, 2020

not sure if that's true.  If you can find a high sierra boot disk on an external hard drive, and can clone it over to your macbook pro, it may work.  First try connecting the external drive and restarting the macbookpro while holding down the option key and see if it will allow you to boot from it.  If it does, you can clone high sierra to your internal drive using a program called carbon copy cloner.  Although high sierra will not install on my 2009 macpro tower, I was able to actually boot from a high sierra drive and its been working without issues.  The fact is, you'll eventually need to buy a new computer, but this may work in the meantime.

Legend
February 29, 2020

see if davinci resolve will install.  It's free and although nowhere near as well designed as premiere, it might work for you.   You might also go on Ebay and see if there's an earlier version of Premiere available.  premiere cs 5.5 or 6 might work but you'd probably be wise to do some googling to see if it's a smart idea.

But just remember formats have changed a great deal in the last 10 years and if you're using a newer camera, you might be s.o.l.

Legend
February 29, 2020

Thank you for suggesting it. However, the currently available version of DaVinci Resolve will not run at all on that 2010 MacBook Pro because it now requires OSX 10.13 ("High Sierra") or later just to even run at all.

Ann Bens
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Community Expert
February 29, 2020

Adobe Premiere Pro CC System Requirements

 

You cannot download versions older then 2019 anymore.

Participating Frequently
February 29, 2020

is there no possibility to download an old version without updating it? now on the mac i have ps and lr and br that don't update anymore. I also thought for premiere you could do the same thing