From: "Brendan Bolles" Received: from spike.lmi.net ([66.117.140.17] verified) by media-motion.tv (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 4.2.10) with ESMTP id 5506882 for AE-List@media-motion.tv; Fri, 20 Jun 2014 05:09:33 +0200 Received: from [10.0.1.10] (c-71-198-249-239.hsd1.ca.comcast.net [71.198.249.239]) by spike.lmi.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id D9B5E15407A for ; Thu, 19 Jun 2014 20:09:32 -0700 (PDT) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v1085) Subject: Re: [AE] After Effects CC versus After Effects CC (2014) upgrade In-Reply-To: Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2014 20:09:32 -0700 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: References: To: "After Effects Mail List" X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1085) On Jun 19, 2014, at 7:50 PM, Todd Kopriva wrote: > As far as the version numbering and what it actually means for After = Effects (13.0, etc.), see the bottom of this page: > http://adobe.ly/1oMrJDy Spoiler alert: with significant new features, the project format = changes. So if they steadily added new features you'd have the project = breaking more often, and probably when you least expect it. That said, the Maya ASCII format generally is able to deal with this = successfully. If you created a file in a newer version of Maya, you = could open it with an older version without much problem (sometimes you = have to edit the version number in the file with a text editor). Of = course, any features only found in the newer version wouldn't come = across, but otherwise it works well, sort of the equivalent of missing a = plug-in with AE. Brendan