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"The project was saved in a newer version of premiere pro and cannot be opened in this version." - Except it wasn't!

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September 11, 2014
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Last night I saved a project I've been working on for a couple of days. It's been fine all along. Today, when I went to open it, it's no longer listed in the recently opened files on startup and i get this message:

"The project was saved in a newer version of premiere pro and cannot be opened in this version."

Except it wasn't! I use Premiere CC and it's been fine all along. I can no longer open it at all...

Any thoughts? Very frustrating!

Correct answer dmhuffman

I had this problem and called support. Following was my problem and resolution.

I created a project at home on my laptop. When I got to work and tried to reopen it, I got this message. “This project contains a sequence that could not be opened. No sequence preview preset file or codec could be associated with this sequence type”. Turns out the reason was because my laptop was not connected to the internet. You have to have internet access for Creative Cloud to recognize the program is activated.

I saved the project files on my desktop at work. That said it wouldn't open because the project was done in a newer version. Solution: If you have Creative Cloud, there are two versions of Premiere Pro CC. One is Premiere Pro CC and the other is Premiere Pro CC 2014. The 2014 version is the newest. These are two separate applications. I was getting a message that said it wouldn't open because the project was saved in a newer version on my laptop, PP CC2014. So I had to login to Creative Cloud and install the 2014 version on my work desktop in order to open the project.

Hope this is helpful.

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jesuislepop

Participant

When I have problems with opening/saving projects or sequences in premiere, it's normally to do with registration issues/connection issues with creative cloud.

It's a real pain the ass!!

Things that have worked for in the past are stupid shit like logging out of adobe creative cloud, restarting the computer, logging in to creative cloud, restarting the computer, then opening premiere CC again and [hopefully] the registration box thing doesn't pop up.

Then if that doesn't work try changing your password then logging back in on the desktop again.

If you have access to the computer that you saved your original file on, try re-save the file after re-logging out/in of creative cloud... my guess is that the registration info is embedded into the project file.

UBERcut

Participant

I am also experiencing this issue.

I made and edited a project on my Mac pro, saved it.

Got a new macbook retina, installed CC and updated all the software, tried to open up the file.

Give me the error that the project was created on a newer version of Premiere CC?

This is weird, as all the software is up to date?

Ann Bens

Community Expert

You need to be very carefull which version CC7 or CC14 you open. Its very easy to make a mistake as the icons are the same.

To be on the save side open Premiere first, then the project.

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rhythmstyx

Participating Frequently

I'll add another voice to this thread. It's truly insane that every time Adobe makes an update to their software, we are expected to add this new version of their app to our applications list, as well as multiple versions of every project file. It adds unnecessary confusion and version madness and working in a place with 5 other editors/graphics artists, file management becomes a full time job (that no one is paying for). Rant over.

So, I have just purchased a brand new Mac Pro, installed the latest Premiere Pro 2014, tried to open a .pproj file on it and got the message you all are getting. The file I am trying to open I had created yesterday on another Mac Pro updated to the latest update. I do not see a way to get to 8.1, my version says 8.0.1, and there is nothing for me to update. Even so, both computers, the one I created the project on the one I am trying to open it on, list Premiere Pro at 8.0.1. So they should open the same file. One of the computers is running Mavericks and the other Yosemite, but I don't see how that would matter.

Would be nice if an expert from Adobe would chime in with a helpful solution.

Ann Bens

Community Expert

Available updates not listed

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EvilDave

Participating Frequently

Hello,

I'm having the same issue, but on a larger scale. I work IT for a small college in San Diego and we are having several students work on the projects at home, bring their work to the campus and they are getting this error. There are no updates available on the campus computers and the students obviously have the latest software on their computers at home. I've uninstalled and reinstalled the software on my end, but this is so hit or miss. Some students have this issue, and some do not. Just want to make this clear, everyone is using Adobe CC Premiere Pro 2014. No one is using CS6 or CC. In

Incidentally, this also happens with Indesign. But the same student can open their Photoshop or Illustrator files associated with the Indesign project.

MightyKBot

Participant

First post on here for me, but since I just dealt with this same issue, I wanted to add in my fix. Here's what happened:

I upgraded my MacBook in the middle of an edit. I was working on PP CC2014 on the old computer and installed PP CC2014 on the new one. Then when I opened the project, I got the same error message that you did.

Turns out that the CC app installed an older version of PP CC2014. In my Finder window, the version number was listed as 8.0.1. The most current version is 8.1.

What I did was quit out of the CC app and then reopen it. When it came up and connected to Adobe, it gave me the notice on the 8.1 update. Now I can open my project with no problems.

I hope that this helps you.

Zero_Hero

Participant

Thank you sir, this worked for me. It's weird, I had to quit the Adobe Application Manager and restart it for the update to become available. Now running 8.1 on both machines and projects working fine.

jtw29

Participant

I have run into the same problem where I have a project that was saved on a separate machine running Premiere Pro CC 2014, and I'm trying to open it on a brand new machine with a fresh OS and Premiere Pro 2014 (just downloaded the latest version). I cannot open the file. It says "The project was saved in a newer version of premiere pro and cannot be opened in this version." I have confirmed that the project was saved in ver. 2014 and I don't even have the CC (non 2014) installed on my original machine. And besides, If I've downloaded the latest version of Premiere as of about an hour ago, shouldn't it be able to open any previous project?

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dmhuffmanCorrect answer

Inspiring

I had this problem and called support. Following was my problem and resolution.

I created a project at home on my laptop. When I got to work and tried to reopen it, I got this message. “This project contains a sequence that could not be opened. No sequence preview preset file or codec could be associated with this sequence type”. Turns out the reason was because my laptop was not connected to the internet. You have to have internet access for Creative Cloud to recognize the program is activated.

I saved the project files on my desktop at work. That said it wouldn't open because the project was done in a newer version. Solution: If you have Creative Cloud, there are two versions of Premiere Pro CC. One is Premiere Pro CC and the other is Premiere Pro CC 2014. The 2014 version is the newest. These are two separate applications. I was getting a message that said it wouldn't open because the project was saved in a newer version on my laptop, PP CC2014. So I had to login to Creative Cloud and install the 2014 version on my work desktop in order to open the project.

Hope this is helpful.

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dmhuffman

Inspiring

One more item. In using PP CC2014 for the first time with this project, I have run into multiple issues making this project very frustrating. When adding a sequence to the master sequence, I have to render the audio each time in order to see all of the audio waves. You have to keep doing this over and over, even though you've already rendered a sequence already.

I am getting error messages when rendering the project saying there are issues compiling the movie. Getting same type error message if I try to export. I narrowed it down to two sequences keeping the program from rendering without the error messages. They each had a tiff file. I deleted them and they rendered. Not sure what this issue was with these particular files since I have other tiff files in the project. Once the rendering of all sequences was done, all the individual sequences were closed and the master was the only one open. I didn't close them. So now to edit any of the sequences I have to go back and open them.

The only thing this project has in it are titles created in PP, a few graphics, mostly tiff tiles and some jpeg and the dissolve effect. That's it. Seems like they should have done more with this version before putting it out there. Maybe that's why there are two separate applications for PP? Who knows. I will be uninstalling PP CC2014 when this project is complete.

Yvette_d45p

Participant

I edited a project on CC on one computer and saved it on my external. My friend took the same project to edit it on her computer under her own name and licence. Both of us recently upgraded to CC. But the same project that worked a few hours back on Premiere Pro CC, does not work now also on Premiere Pro CC and I received a message saying: The project was saved in a newer version of premiere pro and cannot be opened in this version."

Sarthak Girdhar

Adobe Employee

Hi steadijim,

The message that you are getting comes when you have opened your project in a newer version. Like you said that you have been working in Premiere Pro CC, I believe you might have opened this project in Premiere Pro CC 2014 (may be unknowingly).

However, you need not worry. You can open that project in Premiere Pro CC 2014. Go to File-> Export-> Final Cut Pro XML...

Import that XML file in Premiere Pro CC and that is it!

Regards

Sarthak

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MrsRiccasKindergarten

Participant

This is not working for me. Confirmed they are the same versions of Premiere Pro CC 2014. I save it, copy to my external hdd, open on other comp and get the same error. I tried exporting as FCP XML as well and it throws up an error when I try to import that on the other comp as well. Going from a Mac Pro 2009 to a MBP 13" Mid-2012. Need this to work now... SO BADLY. Never had these issues before.

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aauld

Participant

Same issues here. I migrated from a PC running the latest CC 2014. I installed CC 2014 on my new iMac. I had to deactivate the PC in order for it to work. Once done I received the error when trying to open the file. It even errors on my Mabook Pro with CC 2014 installed.

C'mon Adobe, this thread has been around for quite some time. Something's wrong here. My only work around is to deactivate the new iMac, re-activate the PC and re-install. Export the project to XML then deactivate and reactivate again. That's a lot of work for something you promised would be transparent between platforms.

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