Create a Team Project

You can create a team project directly from the Start screen of Adobe After Effects, Premiere Pro, or Prelude. Or, from within the application, select File > New > Team Project.

Enter a name for the team project (required) and a description (optional). You can invite collaborators to join the team project now, or wait and invite them later once you have added content.

To invite collaborators now, click Edit. In the pop-up screen, enter the name or email address of the people with whom you want to collaborate. If you invited people in the past, you a drop-down list appears with a list of the most recently invited people, to speed up the invite process. As you type, the dialog provides matching search results to make finding the desired collaborators easier.

You can remove the selection by clicking the X in the name tag. A user can also type an email address. Suggestions are provided based on collaborators that the user has invited before, or from the user’s organizational address book if they are part of an Enterprise that has synced their Active Directory with the Adobe Admin console.

When you have added all your collaborators, click Invite.

Your collaborators receive an invitation to collaborate that appears in the Creative Cloud desktop application and in Premiere Pro, Prelude or After Effects. In the applications, select File > Open Team Project to access the Manage Team Projects dialogue. The Invites tab in the Manage Team Projects dialogue accepts or declines pending invitations.

To create a linked team project, select File > New > Linked Team Project...

You can also create a linked team project by choosing the context menu in the project panel. Right-click the project panel and choose New > Linked Team Project... in the pop-up menu. 

In the Manage Team Projects dialog window, select the existing team project that you want to link and click Link. At this stage, you can also create a team project by clicking New Team Project and link it to another team project. 

A linked team project appears in the project panel as shown in the screenshot. In this case, the Linked-TP-feature team project is linked to the online-presence-test team project. So, whenever I open the Linked-TP-feature team project, a link appears indicating the connection that was established between these two team projects. 

If you change the linked team project after linking it to the parent team project, you have to share these changes within the linked team project.

To convert a Premiere Project to a team project, open the Project and select Edit > Team Project > Convert Project to Team Project… 

Enter the name of your team project and a text description. You can add collaborators at this point or wait until later. Click OK.

Select File > Open Team Project. In the Manage Team Projects dialog, projects are categorized under three tabs:

• Team Projects: Displays the list of the available team projects.
• Archive: Displays the list of archived team projects.
• Invites: Displays the list of team projects you have recieved invites for collaboration.

Select from the list of team projects, and click Open.

If you have a long list of projects, you can type the name of the specific project in the search box and open it. For more information, see Search and filter team projects.

The components of the project start to load in the background and After Effects displays them immediately with the status of the loading process. You can start to work on them while the remaining components load in the background.

In After Effects, open the team project you want to import into.

To import into the current team project, select File > Import > File, choose the .aep file, and click Open.