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title: "Create a Production"
slug: "create-a-production"
tags: ["How-to", "End user", "Curator for Adobe", "Premiere Pro", "After Effects", "Productions", "Adobe projects"]
updated: 2026-10-15T13:33:20Z
published: 2026-10-15T13:33:20Z
canonical: "help.ipv.com/create-a-production"
---

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# Create a Production

Learn more here how to create a production in preparation to use as a project in either Adobe Premiere Pro or After Effects. See [Adobe Projects and Productions in Curator](/docs/adobe-projects-and-productions-in-adobe).

#### Curator for Adobe Panel

1. Navigate to ‘Productions’ as per [Adobe panel explained](/docs/adobe-panel-explained)
2. Select ‘Create New Production’ from the Home screen or the Collections and Productions panel: ![create new production button.png](https://cdn.document360.io/c173e68f-0609-4297-9277-0fc5c6b45db7/Images/Documentation/create%20new%20production%20button.png?sv=2026-02-06&spr=https&st=2026-11-05T19%3A48%3A25Z&se=2026-11-05T20%3A48%3A25Z&sr=c&sp=r&sig=tzx%2BL8G%2BHmeQvHvG1n8oTx%2FOx9kFUxbB62OCLYwYiPQ%3D)
3. Name your project

![image.png](https://cdn.document360.io/c173e68f-0609-4297-9277-0fc5c6b45db7/Images/Documentation/image%28296%29.png?sv=2026-02-06&spr=https&st=2026-11-05T19%3A48%3A25Z&se=2026-11-05T20%3A48%3A25Z&sr=c&sp=r&sig=tzx%2BL8G%2BHmeQvHvG1n8oTx%2FOx9kFUxbB62OCLYwYiPQ%3D)

1. Provide Metadata for your production [as set up and requested](/docs/edit-configure-the-adobe-panel-for-premiere-pro-and-after-effects). The Metadata you select will determine the saved location of the project

![image.png](https://cdn.document360.io/c173e68f-0609-4297-9277-0fc5c6b45db7/Images/Documentation/image%28297%29.png?sv=2026-02-06&spr=https&st=2026-11-05T19%3A48%3A25Z&se=2026-11-05T20%3A48%3A25Z&sr=c&sp=r&sig=tzx%2BL8G%2BHmeQvHvG1n8oTx%2FOx9kFUxbB62OCLYwYiPQ%3D)

1. Confirm details and select ‘Create’. Otherwise, ‘Back’ or ‘X’ to exit back to the panel. You also have non-mandatory additional options to select:

- To [check out](/docs/open-check-out-an-adobe-project-production) your production after creation
- [Disconnect](/docs/connecting-assets-explained) assets in project on check-ins

![image.png](https://cdn.document360.io/c173e68f-0609-4297-9277-0fc5c6b45db7/Images/Documentation/image%28298%29.png?sv=2026-02-06&spr=https&st=2026-11-05T19%3A48%3A25Z&se=2026-11-05T20%3A48%3A25Z&sr=c&sp=r&sig=tzx%2BL8G%2BHmeQvHvG1n8oTx%2FOx9kFUxbB62OCLYwYiPQ%3D)

#### Create a Production for an already created Adobe Project on your system (local)

If you have created an Adobe Project on your system locally, you can later turn this into a Curator Production. You might do this if you’ve not created a production first, in error, perhaps. With your local Adobe Project open in your Adobe software;

1. Select ‘Create a Production’.
2. The 'Create a Production' tool will detect you have a local Adobe Project open and use the project as a template in the Curator Production and save the project file to the Production.

Ensure your assets in the Adobe Project are stored in Curator so they are easily linkable in the future.

#### Update and link your Production with an updated Adobe Project edited locally

If you have continued to work on an Adobe Project on your local system without checking it out of Curator first, don’t worry. At any stage during your edit; you are able to check out the already established Production of the same name as the Adobe Project from Curator and link the Curator Production to your Local Adobe Project thus ensuring Curator can retrieve the latest version of your project, later. With your local Adobe Project open:

1. Select ‘Check out a Production’ in the Adobe Panel against the production for the Adobe Project you have open in your Adobe software
2. The ‘Check out a production’ tool will detect you have a local Adobe Project open of the same name
3. Expand the chevron for ‘Project File’ ![check out project - expanded chevron.png](https://cdn.document360.io/c173e68f-0609-4297-9277-0fc5c6b45db7/Images/Documentation/check%20out%20project%20-%20expanded%20chevron.png?sv=2026-02-06&spr=https&st=2026-11-05T19%3A48%3A25Z&se=2026-11-05T20%3A48%3A25Z&sr=c&sp=r&sig=tzx%2BL8G%2BHmeQvHvG1n8oTx%2FOx9kFUxbB62OCLYwYiPQ%3D)
4. Select ‘Link Local Project’
5. Select ‘Check Out’
6. Your Adobe project has now linked with your Curator Production and any changes can now be saved (checked in) to Curator.

#### Create a Production in Clip Link

1. Select the three dot menu top right and navigate to and select ‘Use an Extension > Create Production’ ![CL production.png](https://cdn.document360.io/c173e68f-0609-4297-9277-0fc5c6b45db7/Images/Documentation/CL%20production.png?sv=2026-02-06&spr=https&st=2026-11-05T19%3A48%3A25Z&se=2026-11-05T20%3A48%3A25Z&sr=c&sp=r&sig=tzx%2BL8G%2BHmeQvHvG1n8oTx%2FOx9kFUxbB62OCLYwYiPQ%3D)
2. In the ‘Create a Production’ pop-up submission, submit a name and metadata collectively (metadata configured in [Managing asset metadata](/docs/metadata-management)) much like you would if creating in the Adobe Panel (as above) ![image.png](https://cdn.document360.io/c173e68f-0609-4297-9277-0fc5c6b45db7/Images/Documentation/image%28301%29.png?sv=2026-02-06&spr=https&st=2026-11-05T19%3A48%3A25Z&se=2026-11-05T20%3A48%3A25Z&sr=c&sp=r&sig=tzx%2BL8G%2BHmeQvHvG1n8oTx%2FOx9kFUxbB62OCLYwYiPQ%3D)
3. Select ‘Create’. Otherwise, ‘Cancel’
4. You will be notified in your display that the Production has been created in Curator:

![image.png](https://cdn.document360.io/c173e68f-0609-4297-9277-0fc5c6b45db7/Images/Documentation/image%28302%29.png?sv=2026-02-06&spr=https&st=2026-11-05T19%3A48%3A25Z&se=2026-11-05T20%3A48%3A25Z&sr=c&sp=r&sig=tzx%2BL8G%2BHmeQvHvG1n8oTx%2FOx9kFUxbB62OCLYwYiPQ%3D) 5. The production will be placed in a location within Curator determined by configuration.