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Subject:Open Acid 5 file in Acid 4? Posted by: bbcdrum Date:4/5/2005 9:41:59 AM Is there a way to open in Acid 4 a file that was saved in Acid 5? My son (11 years old) has been playing around with Acid Xpress 5 (on his own computer - without a burner) and wants to have me burn his songs onto disc for him. I have Acid 4 installed on my PC. I can use Acid Xpress 5 to save his song as an acd-zip file then transport it to my PC. But when I try to open the file in Acid Pro 4, I get a message telling me that my version can't open the file made by a newer version. Also, Acid Xpress 5 will on a few formats (no wav) and only 20 times. Any ideas? Thanks. Kevin
Subject:RE: Open Acid 5 file in Acid 4? Reply by: Chienworks Date:4/5/2005 1:41:22 PM Generally SONY's software has no way of opening newer versions' files in older versions. I'm afraid you're stuck there. You could always install ACID Xpress 5 on your computer as well. It will happily coesist with ACID Pro 4 without interfering. The only thing you may have to do after installing it is to re-associate .acd with Pro 4. I believe Xpress allows unlimited saves to WMA format. At a relatively high bitrate this should be indistinguishable from WAV and certainly suitable for burning to a CD. SONY will also allow you to install ACID Pro on your son's computer in addition to your own computer, as long as you only use it on one of them at a time.
Subject:RE: Open Acid 5 file in Acid 4? Reply by: Illogical Date:4/5/2005 1:44:50 PM mmm, couldn't you just install Acid Express on your computer as well? I know you can't open anything made in version 5 with version 4, so that's a dead end. I'm not clear what the limitations are on rendering in Xpress, but whatever format you can dump out in, take that and use a CD burning utility to create an audio disc.
Subject:RE: Open Acid 5 file in Acid 4? Reply by: bbcdrum Date:4/5/2005 6:19:04 PM Thanks for the help. The render options are quite limited in Xpress. If Sony allows installing Acid Pro on another machine (without concurrent use), that seems like the best option. Thanks.

Subject:Open Acid 5 file in Acid 4?

Posted by: bbcdrum

Date:4/5/2005 9:41:59 AM

Is there a way to open in Acid 4 a file that was saved in Acid 5?

My son (11 years old) has been playing around with Acid Xpress 5 (on his own computer - without a burner) and wants to have me burn his songs onto disc for him. I have Acid 4 installed on my PC. I can use Acid Xpress 5 to save his song as an acd-zip file then transport it to my PC. But when I try to open the file in Acid Pro 4, I get a message telling me that my version can't open the file made by a newer version.

Also, Acid Xpress 5 will on a few formats (no wav) and only 20 times.

Any ideas?

Thanks.

Kevin

Subject:RE: Open Acid 5 file in Acid 4?

Reply by: Chienworks

Date:4/5/2005 1:41:22 PM

Generally SONY's software has no way of opening newer versions' files in older versions. I'm afraid you're stuck there.

You could always install ACID Xpress 5 on your computer as well. It will happily coesist with ACID Pro 4 without interfering. The only thing you may have to do after installing it is to re-associate .acd with Pro 4.

I believe Xpress allows unlimited saves to WMA format. At a relatively high bitrate this should be indistinguishable from WAV and certainly suitable for burning to a CD.

SONY will also allow you to install ACID Pro on your son's computer in addition to your own computer, as long as you only use it on one of them at a time.

Subject:RE: Open Acid 5 file in Acid 4?

Reply by: Illogical

Date:4/5/2005 1:44:50 PM

mmm, couldn't you just install Acid Express on your computer as well?

I know you can't open anything made in version 5 with version 4, so that's a dead end. I'm not clear what the limitations are on rendering in Xpress, but whatever format you can dump out in, take that and use a CD burning utility to create an audio disc.

Subject:RE: Open Acid 5 file in Acid 4?

Reply by: bbcdrum

Date:4/5/2005 6:19:04 PM

Thanks for the help. The render options are quite limited in Xpress. If Sony allows installing Acid Pro on another machine (without concurrent use), that seems like the best option.

Thanks.