Launch After Effects, and on the home screen, select New Team Project.
Last updated on
Sep 1, 2026
Learn about working with Team Projects and collaborative working in Adobe After Effects without additional hardware.
Team Projects allows multiple people to work together on the same project. Instead of creating and exchanging separate copies of a project, collaborators work from a shared project that is stored in the cloud.
Each person can contribute their own changes and synchronize with updates made by other collaborators. This helps keep everyone working from the same project while allowing team members to work independently and merge their contributions as needed.
- Collaborate using cloud-based projects: Use cloud-based projects to collaborate with others without installing additional hardware.
- Invite collaborators: Invite individuals or groups to new or existing Team Projects so they can collaborate from anywhere.
- View collaborator status: View who has access to the project and whether collaborators are currently online or offline.
- Identify active editors: Use visual indicators to see who's editing the project and where they're working.
- Publish changes: Publish your edits in a few clicks to make them available to collaborators almost immediately.
- Continue working offline: Keep editing when your internet connection is temporarily unavailable. Your changes sync when you're back online.
Create Team Projects and invite collaborators
Enter a name and description for the Team Project.
In the Collaborators section, select Edit.
In the Edit Collaborators dialog box, enter the collaborator's name or email address, and then select Invite.
Ask the collaborator to accept the invitation from the email or from the Creative Cloud desktop app.
View the invitation status in the Collaborators section.
Invite collaborators to existing Team Projects
Select the Invite users to collaborate icon in the upper-right corner of the app.
In the Edit Collaborators dialog box, enter the collaborator's name or email address, and then select Invite.
Select the collaborators icons next to the Invite users to collaborate icon to:
- View whether collaborators are online or offline
- Check the status of pending invitations
Tip
You can also use the Edit Collaborator dialog box to select the collaborators and remove them.
Get or share changes in Team Projects
Open a composition in the Team Project and make your changes.
In the Team Project panel, select the Share my changes to the Team Projects server icon.
In the dialog box, enter a comment, and then select Share.
Ask your collaborators to sync the latest changes. They see the following indicators:
- The Get the latest changes from the Team Projects server icon becomes active.
- The Team Project status icon indicates that changes are being synced.
- When syncing is complete, the Team Project status icon updates to show the last sync time.
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