Warning: PE 7 cannot read PE 8 projects

[rjones]

So my PE 8 is so unstable I've given up trying to use it. Now I go back to PE 7. Guess what? The two projects I was working on in PE 8 cannot be opened in PE 7. GRRR.

[Chuck Engels]

Sorry to say that version project files are not backward compatible.
It is always suggested here that if you are working in an old version to make sure that a copy of the project file is made before attempting to open and save in another version.

[JohnnyO]

And this is not unique between PRE7 and PRE8, It applieds to all the previous versions.

[rjones]

This wasn't a case of opening up an older version and saving as a new version. I'm aware of the lack of backward compatibility. But these were projects I started in PE 8. Now that PE8 has decided it can't run on my computer I'm stuck with projects I can't open. I have uninstalled PE 8 and going to do a reinstall in hopes the program will run again so I can at least to an export.

After limping along for the past few weeks today PE 8 opens, gets to the splash screen, starts loading in all the modules and then disappears from the screen. The task bar says its running, Task Manager says its running, but the program is not on the screen. REbooted the computer. Restarted PE 8. Still not there. I've never seen a program do this since way back in the early Mac and PC days. I'm able to start PE 7 and it runs fine. BTW I'm running a quad AMD and 8 gigabytes of RAM with four hard drives connected, so I'm not running out of resources.

Adobe sent me a survey today asking about how I like PE 8. I'll be replying soon.

[Chuck Engels]

Premiere Elements is not supported on any 64bit version of Windows so Adobe won't help you much.

[JohnnyO]

This wasn't a case of opening up an older version and saving as a new version. I'm aware of the lack of backward compatibility. But these were projects I started in PE 8. Now that PE8 has decided it can't run on my computer I'm stuck with projects I can't open. I have uninstalled PE 8 and going to do a reinstall in hopes the program will run again so I can at least to an export.

Once you open the lower release project into the current release, the project file is converted and therfore not compatable with the lower release any longer.

best to make a backup befopre opening in the newer project. However, any changes you made inthe new project of course will notbe on the backup.