How do I read a Premiere 6 project file?

I had Premiere 6 on an old Mac a few years ago, and created a project using footage of an event from two MiniDV cameras, one stationary and one mobile. Edited them together into a seamless video using the stationary footage as my base and cutting to the mobile (video only) when it had a better shot. But I never printed this project to video.
That old Mac is now gone, and my new one won't run Premiere 6. I have a copy of Final Cut Express and would like to recreate my project in it (still have all the source clips). I figure that I should be able to take the in and out points listed in the Premiere project file and use them to quickly set up the same timeline in an FCE project that I had in my Premiere project, but I haven't been able to figure out that information when reading my project file in a text editor.
Does anyone have a resource for interpreting the contents of a Premiere project file?
Thanks,
Paul

Paul,
The Project file (PROJ, IIRC, though probably without that actual file extension on the Mac) is XML with links to the media, and then instructions for Premiere. Actually "reading" and making much sense out of it, will be difficult, but you should be able to Open it in most document viewers. On a PC, one can use NotePad, but as the fiile will not have a recognized file format, one must use the All Files dropdown. Not sure about Mac document readers, but it should be the same, or very similar.
Now, and likely not of much use to you, those old Project files can be Opened in later versions, but with limitations. As Pr 6.5 was the last version that was X-platform, until CS3, there is a big gap (Pr 7.0/PrPro 1.0 and PrPro 2.0), and IIRC, Mac CS3 of PrPro could not Open the old versions. The workaround was to befriend a PrPro PC CS3 user, who could Open the old version, and then just Save to a CS3 PRPROJ file, that later Mav versions could handle. Several later Mac users, had to use that workaround, and at the same time, also made friends with some PC users. Not sure if there are any newer workarounds.
Also, I cannot recall when Adobe added more support for going from/to FCP and PrPro, but I doubt that even if you had Mac Pr 6.0, it would offer many useful options. Others will have to fill in the blanks there.
Wish that I had more to offer, but my exploration of older Pr Mac Project files was limited to Opening them in PrPro 2.0 on my PC. Most Opened just fine, with but a few minor exceptions (some Transitions failed to translate, as did a few 3rd party Effects. PrPro was kind enough to point those out, and even give me the TimeCode, plus the name of the missing Transitions, and Effects. That does not help you though.
Good luck, and maybe you will be better at reading those XML instructions, than I have been. Other than finding missing/broken links to Assets, it all looks like Greek to me.
Hunt

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