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Hi to all Resolume's community !

I'm desparately trying to find a solution to allow my resolume avenue 4 (such old version, haha) to open my composition file.
I still have the same message : "XML parsing of composition "name of my compo" failed".

I already red most of the threads I could find on this forum about this topic. I noticed the xml code of my file has special characters mixed with the regular code lines, since I saved once on my external driver, and this is why my file one could'nt be opened by Resolume.

I tried to "clean" my xml on many softwares and online services. It's a nightmare : it's so hard to find the correct code lines between all this mess...

If someone could give a miracle tips to get over this, my life would be saved ! I'll be on stage in 3 days, and it's seem to me I could not use my composition for this. I would have no another choice than cancel it...

Thank you !!

If you want to go from v4 to v7, open the v4 composition in v6, save as new composition and open the new composition in v7
you can get v6 installers from the bottom of our http://resolume.com/download page.

If you get the error in v4 trying to open a v4 composition, then the composition file might be damaged.
It's xml, so if you open it in a text editor, it should be readable.
You can find the version it was saved with in the first few lines. If it's greater than your Resolume version, I wouldn't expect it to open.

The file should end with the line </Composition>
If it's not there, the composition was damaged. To fix it, find the last </Clip> tag, delete all lines after it, and add
</deck>
</decks>
</composition>
lines and save under a new name.
This should fix the broken composition, but expect to lose clips and decks.