Premiere Pro CC 2017 to Premiere Pro CS6

[HR profile]

So I was doing some stuff through Adobe Premiere Pro 2017 through the 7 day trial as I figured the key we had was going to also be Premiere (2017) but it seems to be the CS6 version. Being that I have already done quite a bit of stuff in the previous projects I was trying to convert it down to CS6 and wondered if there was a way to do this?

I am expecting that I will not be able to use the projects as its likely to be so far different that its not really feasible. It seems to also have trouble with the full video that was exported out in addition to that. I wondered at a bare minimum if it was capable of at least making adjustments to the finished videos? Do I need to make any changes to the video itself for it to work on there?

[John T Smith · Accepted solution]

As far as I know, the only way to create a PARTIAL way to convert a PProCC project so it may be read by PProCS6 is to export an XML file from CC to read with CS6... I've never done that, but I do know there are limitations

As far as editing video files you export from CC with CS6, that will depend on exactly what you export, and if the specific file is one that CS6 is able to read and edit

Also read Cloud takes over https://forums.adobe.com/thread/2089127 for information if your CS6 doesn't want to work

[HR profile]

Ya any project I open it from CC2017 it states is corrupt or damaged (guessing that its not compatible so gave up on it initially). I had existing video files in the mxf format from CC2017 but it seems to mess up the videos a great deal after importing them into CS6 in that it causes the picture to blink a lot (lots of green screens and previous screens) and eventually will error out and stop working.

[SAFEHARBOR11]

Premiere has never supported going backwards with Projects - you can never open a project from a newer Premiere version in an older version. Even with CC, like going from 2017 to 2016, not happening.

As John said, you might be able to do something with an EDL, just to retain basic edits. Maybe.

Any video you had exported from CC ought to open in CS6 - if the codec is supported. You would be able to edit that clip in older versions.

Thanks

Jeff