Version clash, lost my work

AdamUK

Newbie Joined: Oct 09, 2016 13:12 Messages: 6 Offline

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Oct 09, 2016 13:21

Hi everyone,

I have a message "This project was created in a newer version of CyberLink PowerDirector and is not supported by the current version" and here's what I had done:

Downloaded Powerdirector 14 TRIAL

Created project - spent few weeks editing

Downloaded Powerdirector 15 TRIAL

Opened and saved project file

Purchased Powerdirector 14 and installed so that I can publish my finished works in 4K

Tried to open .pds file but cannot

Now I can't open it to finish my work. What can I do?

Adam

JL_JL

Senior Contributor Location: Arizona, USA Joined: Oct 01, 2006 20:01 Messages: 6091 Offline

Oct 09, 2016 14:02

Yes, PD has never backward compatible as released, heck, often lucky if it's even 100% forward compatible.

Post your PD15 pds file, I'll give it a try. I can convert my own back to PD14, might work for you as long as you've used nothing "new" in PD15. Also post just a sample PD14 pds file, just drag something to the timeline in your working PD14 and save and then post so I have your PD14 pds reference.

It might take a couple days before I can look at it, but if important and not easy to recreated I'll give it a go.

Jeff

AdamUK

Newbie Joined: Oct 09, 2016 13:12 Messages: 6 Offline

Oct 09, 2016 14:12

Quote: Post your PD15 pds file, I'll give it a try. I can convert my own back to PD14, might work for you as long as you've used nothing "new" in PD15. Also post just a sample PD14 pds file, just drag something to the timeline in your working PD14 and save and then post so I have your PD14 pds reference.

It might take a couple days before I can look at it, but if important and not easy to recreated I'll give it a go.

Jeff

Thanks so much Jeff. Attached are the two files.

Filename	North Korea.pds	Download
Description	This is the file last saved in PD15
Filesize	8197 Kbytes
Downloaded:	231 time(s)

Filename	Sample from PD14.pds	Download
Description	This is the sample file from PD14
Filesize	358 Kbytes
Downloaded:	289 time(s)

JL_JL

Senior Contributor Location: Arizona, USA Joined: Oct 01, 2006 20:01 Messages: 6091 Offline

Oct 09, 2016 14:37

Give this a try and let me know, just a fast hack, I may need to look a little deeper if it does not work for you. All your video/pic/mp3 clips are obviously black for me as I don't have those but I have not changed any reference to them so they should load fine for you as long as you have not moved them.

Jeff

Filename	North Korea_PD14.pds	Download
Description
Filesize	8197 Kbytes
Downloaded:	226 time(s)


Filename	PD15_to_PD14.png	Download
Description
Filesize	128 Kbytes
Downloaded:	18 time(s)

AdamUK

Newbie Joined: Oct 09, 2016 13:12 Messages: 6 Offline

Oct 09, 2016 15:01

Quote: Give this a try and let me know, just a fast hack, I may need to look a little deeper if it does not work for you.
Jeff

Seems to work just fine for me Jeff thank you so much. I'll go a bit deeper to spot any issues but on first glance it's working just fine!

JL_JL

Senior Contributor Location: Arizona, USA Joined: Oct 01, 2006 20:01 Messages: 6091 Offline

Oct 09, 2016 20:44

That's good, I'd simply followup with a "Save Project As..." and give a new name so PD recreates a few items and I think you should be fine.

Jeff