Yes Lee, I would now also strongly recommend to finish your projects before changing but one only finds out these things when it is too late.
When Premiere CS5 converts a CS4 project it makes a copy with a different name (xxxxx_1) and the original project is still available. When I realized the new project would not work I re-installed CS4 but my old projects would also no longer work there - and that I find strange. My computer knowledge is rather limited but I don't understand why the change from Win7 32bit to 64bit would cause that. I then re-installed CS4 in XP and the old projects still work there. I am a strong believer in having a dual boot system with two different Windows. This got me out of trouble many times in the past. If I did not have the two Windows I would have had to re-install the previous Windows just to be able to finish the projects, and that would have kept me off the street for some time (ha,ha). Uwe > Uwe > > The people on the Adobe Premiere forum recommend to finish a project with > the same version it was begun. While CS5 will convert a project if it can, > they do admit that sometimes it cannot (I did not read thoroughly > enough to > see if anyone explained under what conditions it could or could not > convert > a project). But several people offered testimonials that even their CS2 > projects were correctly converted by CS5. > > If you are going to work an old project using CS5 they also highly > emphasize > to make a copy of the project first, and to use the copy in CS5. The > explanation given is that once CS5 updates an old project into the new > format, there is no going back - that is, the older version cannot read > CS5's file format. > > I remember early on trying a CS4 project in CS5 which did properly > load and > convert the old project. But I haven't done so since and don't > remember any > of the finer details. > > Lee > > From: [email protected] > <mailto:Adobe-Premiere%40yahoogroups.com> > [mailto:[email protected] > <mailto:Adobe-Premiere%40yahoogroups.com>] > On Behalf Of Uwe Soltau > Sent: Sunday, August 22, 2010 11:46 AM > To: [email protected] > <mailto:Adobe-Premiere%40yahoogroups.com> > Subject: [AP] Change to Win7 64bit > After a delay I have finally changed to Win7 64bit. > Both Premiere CS4 and CS5 work well in it BUT ONLY > with new projects. > I still have three unfinished projects on my computer. > When I want to continue with them, both CS4 and CS5 will > stop and close when I open them. > Would that be normal or does anybody have a fix for that? > > Fortunately my dual boot system has come to the rescue. > I still have XP on the computer and installed CS4 into it and > the projects work there although they were all started with CS4 > in Win7 32bit. > Uwe,_._,___ > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > _ [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Adobe-Premiere/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Adobe-Premiere/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: [email protected] [email protected] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
