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# Start from a Production Kit

Create a project that opens ready to run. When kits are installed, **File > New Project** opens the kit picker — and products configured for it show the same picker at startup.

## Choose a kit

1. Choose **File > New Project**. The **Choose a Production Kit** window opens, showing your installed kits as cards — each with a preview image, the kit’s name and description, and how many moments it covers. A play badge on a card means the kit has a preview video.
2. Use the **Search kits** box or the sidebar to narrow the gallery — **All kits**, plus **Recent** once you’ve used some.
3. Click a card to explore it: the detail view plays the preview, lists what the kit includes, and under **WHAT’S INSIDE** names each moment and the graphic that answers it. **Expand Preview** opens the video full-size.
4. Click **Use this Kit**. Captivate builds the project — graphics staged, workspace arranged, and any workflow panel the kit carries installed — and reports what it brought in.

Prefer a blank slate? **Start with an empty project** skips the kit entirely. If the picker doesn’t appear at all, either no kits are installed yet (see importing, below) or your product goes straight to an empty project by design.

## Work with the kit’s graphics

A kit’s graphics are a starting point, not a locked set. Kits that drive a workflow panel can offer an **Edit Graphics** control there, which opens the kit’s moments window — a **Production Graphics** list showing each staged graphic beside the moment it serves, with **Edit** opening it in the Designer to change wording, colors, or layout. With or without that window, a kit’s graphics are ordinary project graphics — open any of them in the Designer directly.

## Import and export kits

Kits travel as single `.kit` files.

* **Import** (top of the kit picker, or right-click a card > **Import Production Kit…**) adds a `.kit` file to your library.
* Right-click a card and choose **Export Production Kit…** to write one out for another machine or another operator.

## Related

* [Create a Production Kit](/get-started/chapter-index-1/create-a-production-kit.md)
* [Modify a template](/design-and-customize-graphics/chapter-index/modify-a-template.md) — the same editing ideas apply to a kit’s graphics.


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