OT Need Someone with AE 9+ To Downconvert to AE7/8

Soniclight wrote on 4/1/2015, 11:21 PM
LATER EDIT:

A) I chose not to enter the contest, so won't be needing the file.
B) Someone may perhaps be able to down-convert this file for me for use at a later date.

Ergo: This thread/topic has passed its relevance/expiration date... :)

~ Philip

As mentioned in my thread on "The Trailer" contest, I'm working on a submission.
Years of ideas and even some screenwriting to be juggled into 60 seconds...

Found a guy featured at Premium Beat, Vimeo and a couple of other places who is giving some of his earlier AE template freebies away as a .zip file -- I want to tweak it to what I need it to be. But...

I only have CS3 and its AE v. 8.0.0.298 it didn't let me open the "Movie Titles.CS4.aep" in it which assume contains the one I want shown in the Vimeo clip below (he states in the comments that it is part of .zip I downloaded). While some of the common Net wisdom says that Adobe does "not do backward compatible", there are applications like Open Seasame that can do exactly that. I can't afford this converter and I also almost never use AE -- yet. Will export the result to Vegas as some form of alpha .avi file.

Hopefully someone could do this downconvert for me. If so please contact me via my profile here so I can respond to your email with the .zip file. And, yes, I'm scanning the drive on which it sits right now with Malwarebytes Anti-Malware while writing this post.

Thanks.

~ Philip

Futuristic/Sci-Fi Thriller Title/Credits Template

Comments

Soniclight wrote on 4/2/2015, 4:02 PM
I posted a similar version of this question at the Adobe AE forum, and basically, it's a no-go. Except for this slim chance one respondent put as...

"Now, a thought occurs. If someone happened to have CS4 and CS3 installed on the same system, they might be able to copy and paste items from one to the other, but that would be a blind hope."

I agree, BUT if someone here does have this situation, please let know.

Even Open Sesame only makes an .XML file and is not guaranteed to work in CS3. So I'm just going to have to adapt some AE template I purchased last year or make my own titles in Vegas -- which I'm not too bad at. Small, 800x400 rez with-no-audio example below when I was testing out JW player codecs for my site.

Derm wrote on 4/3/2015, 4:47 AM
Why not take a one month trial of Adobe CC?
JohnnyRoy wrote on 4/3/2015, 8:11 AM
> "Why not take a one month trial of Adobe CC?"

Because that's impossible! While Adobe quotes monthly prices to make their "ransomware" look more attractive, you must commit to a FULL YEAR (billed monthly) if you want CC.

I tried to do this for my son who is in college studying graphic design. I wanted to rent Photoshop, Illustrator,and InDesign for just the 5 months that he needed it for school and you had to pay for a full year. So don't be fooled by the monthly price. He ended up using my CS6 license and just saving his CC work from school in CS6 format to work on at home.

Unfortunately I don't believe After Effects has an option to save in an older format like Photoshop and Illustrator have.

~jr
Soniclight wrote on 4/6/2015, 9:40 AM
I hadn't thought of the "rent" idea, but may have come around to it perhaps.
So thanks for the preemptive info-warning, JohnnyRoy.

Might as well R.I.P. this thread and topic.

~ PK