<p>Short answer: You can't. Unfortunately, there is no way to save a project so that it can be used in older versions of the program. That's a major downside of Premiere Pro, especially since this <strong>is</strong> possible with most other programs of the Adobe Creative Cloud (InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop, ...). But at the moment, you can't do that with Premiere Pro.</p>

<p>You <strong>could</strong> use EDL files (Editing decision list). From Wikipedia:</p>

<blockquote>
  <p>An edit decision list or EDL is used in the post-production process of
  film editing and video editing. The list contains an ordered list of
  reel and timecode data representing where each video clip can be
  obtained in order to conform the final cut.</p>
</blockquote>

<p>However, only the order and timecodes of the clips in your sequence will be carried over. All effects and other settings you already put in place will be lost.</p>

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<p>I edited a project in Premiere CC and my client owns Premiere CS 5.5, how can I save the project file so he can use it too?</p>

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How can I save the project for premiere cs 5.5?
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# How can I save the project for premiere cs 5.5?

(Asked by: username_0 on 2015-02-17)

I edited a project in Premiere CC and my client owns Premiere CS 5.5, how can I save the project file so he can use it too?

**Tags:** premiere, cs5, cc-2014


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## 1 answers

### Answer by username_1 on 2015-02-17. Score: 1 | Accepted answer

Short answer: You can't. Unfortunately, there is no way to save a project so that it can be used in older versions of the program. That's a major downside of Premiere Pro, especially since this **is** possible with most other programs of the Adobe Creative Cloud (InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop, ...). But at the moment, you can't do that with Premiere Pro.

You **could** use EDL files (Editing decision list). From Wikipedia:

> An edit decision list or EDL is used in the post-production process of
> film editing and video editing. The list contains an ordered list of
> reel and timecode data representing where each video clip can be
> obtained in order to conform the final cut.

However, only the order and timecodes of the clips in your sequence will be carried over. All effects and other settings you already put in place will be lost.


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