Relevance of past Premiere Pro versions

[John Ratard]

As a subscriber to Premiere Pro CC, I have not been editing for some time.  As a result, I am not familiar with why I should keep so many versions that are now apppearing from versions 6 to 14 in Creative Cloud.  I have projects created over 3 years that are in the process of being completed.  When I open them, I find some need converting to the latest update that so far does not create any problems for me.  Since 1990 when I first used the Adobe Video Collection and through the various upgrades, I am wondering what is the reason so many upgrades are listed.  This also applies to many other CC apps that presntly appear in my subscription.

What is the purpose and why would I need to keep the various updates previous to the present version 14 for Premiere Pro and other app present versions?

[Shivangi_Gupta]

Hi John,

We appreciate the fact that you've been with Adobe since 1990. Earlier Adobe Premiere Pro was a perpetual product, however, now it is a subscription based product. Every year Adobe releases a new version of the software with new and advanced features.

It is not mandatory to keep all the versions of the software unless you are working on a project created in those versions. Premiere Pro is not backward compatible. Hence, any project created in the newer version can not be opened on any previous version of the software.

Let us know if you have any doubt. We'll be honoured to help. 🙂

Thanks,

Shivangi

[John Ratard]

Thank you for your feedback.  I do not believe I said anything about mandatory.  I simply wanted to discover if there were any advantages of keeping past versions.  I did not expect that a project created in a present version would open in a previous version.

Under these circumstances, a better question would have been:  How far backwards in previous versions is a present version capable of converting and opening, since if I have previous versions, I may need to use past versions as stepping stones to a present version?

[Richard M Knight]

Dolby audio encoding has been dropped for the last few versions, if you need this having an earlier version might help.

[R Neil Haugen · Accepted solution]

It is ... safer in some ways ... to keep a project in the version it was created in. Typically. And there were changes say in some of the 'intrinsic' parts of Lumetri around 2017/2018 that mean the "same" effect will be shown slightly differently in later versions.

However ... when you do migrate, there is a best way to do that. Which is ... always create a new project in the new version, then use the Media Browser panel to navigate to and select the previous project file, and import that project file's contents into the new project file. This normally works fine.

Neil