by Bill Hunt » Wed Mar 25, 2009 11:11 am
Tex,
In my tests (PE4 & PrP-CS2), PE Projects Opened with very few problems (did not use Themes, or similar, just straight editing with Titles and Transitions). Seems that one Title might have had animation done in PE, and I got one error, but it still Opened fine and I had to correct one spot - it even gave me the TimeCode to do that.
Not so going the other direction. First try was using the PRPROJ file in PE4. Got the error, "This Project was created in Premiere Pro. Use that program to Open it." There was some reference to "You da fool guy... " or something similar. I then renamed the PRPROJ file to PREL, and PE4 crashed on me. However, it did not call me a "fool," before it died.
Now, there are a couple of possible workarounds, and they rely on Exporting as DV-AVI from each program, to the other. I know that you want to show the students the Timelines and the various aspects of the actual editing, so just the Exported DV-AVI's will not offer that. Two ways around that: do a tutorial in a program like Camtasia to do a screen-capture of you working in PrP, and Export as an AV file for the students to play. They would see your Timeline and the movements that you go through to edit, plus you can add narration. The second would be to contact Adobe about Educational Site-Licenses for PrP. Might not be as expensive, as one would imagine.
Good luck, and it sounds like a wonderful project,
Hunt