Archives created in earlier versions of Autodesk products are read-only compatible.
If you have any soft-imported clips in your archived 2007 libraries, they can be correctly restored into the 2008 release.
Restoring Archives That Do Not Have an Online Table of Contents (OTOC)
If you open an archive created in an earlier version of an product in version 2009, and that archive does not have an OTOC, Smoke 2009 will create one, making the archive incompatible with the version of the product that was used to create it.
To open that archive in the earlier version, you must delete the 2009 OTOC first.
Restoring Archives with Editing Clips to an Effects Product
When you restore archives created in a product to a product, all clips are restored without any modifications applied to them.
Restrictions to Archive Compatibility
Read-only compatibility for archives created in earlier versions of Autodesk products is supported provided the archive was created in the following version (or later).
| Product | Version |
|---|---|
| Smoke | 1.x |
| Flint | 6.0OCTSE, 6.0IN2, 4.4IR, and 4.0.2 for all other platforms |
| Flame | 4.4IR and 4.5 for all other platforms |
| Inferno | 1.4IR and 1.0 for all other platforms |
| effect | 5.5 |
