Re: AE 7 and CS3 file exchange ?

I had to deal with the same problem several times. It seems that the only solution for the time beeing is to export the project as a Premiere project via File > Export > Adobe Premiere Pro Project, and then import it back in the previous version of AE.

The thing with Premiere is that is uses XML as a project files, and its a great deal. It saved my but several times, because I was able to quickly write a parser that would do crazy things with the project, create new language version when subtitles are included and so on and so on.

I don't know why they didn't use XML in AE. Thats why I've been working on a AE script that will parse the current project and export it as XML, so you could then use the same script to import XML file in older versions of AE.

The basic idea is that it works like a macro - rebuilding the project from scratch.

Unfortunately this is not so easy as it sounds and since I don't have that much time the project is far from releasing, so if theres anyone crazy enough to take this idea and make it a real script than it would be great!