From nothing installed to your first edit.

Before you begin

• Adobe Premiere Pro 26.3 or newer. Check with Premiere Pro → About Premiere Pro. Older versions cannot load the panel.
• macOS 13 Ventura or newer, Apple silicon or Intel. Liora is macOS-only today.
• The Adobe Creative Cloud desktop app, signed in. It performs the panel install.
• Claude Code or OpenAI Codex — one is enough. You install and sign in to it yourself in step 4; Liora never asks for those credentials.

Step 1 — Install the Liora panel

The panel is distributed through Adobe Exchange, so Creative Cloud installs it and keeps it updated for you.

1. Open the Liora listing on Adobe Exchange with the button below.
2. Select Free (or Install) and sign in with your Adobe account when prompted.
3. Approve the handoff to the Creative Cloud desktop app. It installs the panel and reports when it is done.
4. If Premiere Pro was already running, quit and reopen it so it picks up the panel.

Adobe Exchange is the only place to get the panel — that keeps everyone on one build that Creative Cloud can update. Liora does not distribute a separate .ccx file.

Step 2 — Install Liora Companion

The Companion is the small menu-bar app that connects the panel to the AI engine on your Mac. It is signed with a Dumo LLC Developer ID and notarized by Apple. Adobe Exchange does not distribute companion apps, so this half comes from this site.

1. Download the build for your Mac with the buttons below.
2. Open the downloaded DMG and drag Liora Companion into Applications.
3. Launch Liora Companion from Applications. Its mark appears in the macOS menu bar — that is the whole interface; there is no window.
4. If macOS asks whether the app may accept incoming network connections, choose Allow. The Companion listens on 127.0.0.1 only, so this stays on your machine.

Not sure which? Apple menu → About This Mac, and look for “Chip” or “Processor.”

Step 3 — Connect Claude Code or Codex

Liora does the editing reasoning through a command-line AI agent that runs under your own account. You need one of them, installed and signed in. Liora never sees, requests, or stores those credentials — authentication stays between you and the provider.

• Set up Claude Code — uses your Claude Pro or Max plan.
• Set up Codex — uses your ChatGPT plan.

Once one is signed in, open the Companion menu-bar icon. Each engine reports one of four states: ready, sign-in required, update required, or not installed. Select a non-ready engine to open its guide. If both are ready, pick which one Liora uses from the same menu.

Confirm from Terminal

claude --version
codex --version

If a command prints a version but the Companion still says “not installed,” quit and reopen the Companion — it scans for engines at launch.

Step 4 — Open Liora in Premiere

1. Launch Adobe Premiere Pro and open a real project with a sequence in it.
2. Open Window → Extensions → Liora.
3. Dock the panel wherever you like — next to the program monitor works well.
4. Leave Liora Companion running while you edit. The panel finds it automatically; there is no address, port, or token to enter.

The first time the panel opens it shows a short disclosure about what the Companion can do on your behalf. Read it and continue.

Step 5 — Make your first edit

Start with something small and reversible so you can watch the approval flow work. Select a clip in your timeline and try one of these:

Cut this clip at the playhead
Add a cross dissolve between the two selected clips
Rename every clip in this bin to match its source file
Add a marker wherever a new speaker starts

What happens next is the part worth understanding:

1. Liora reads a snapshot of your open project — sequences, tracks, clip ranges, and what you currently have selected.
2. It proposes a specific action and waits for you. Nothing has changed yet.
3. Approve it, approve-always for routine work, or decline and redirect it in plain language.
4. The approved edit lands as a native, named Premiere transaction — so Cmd+Z reverts it exactly like an edit you made by hand.

If your timeline changed between Liora reading it and you approving, Liora stops rather than replaying an outdated edit. Just ask again.

If something is not working

Liora is not in the Extensions menu

The panel did not install. Confirm the Creative Cloud desktop app is installed and signed in, then run through step 1 again. Restart Premiere afterwards — it only scans for panels at launch.

The panel says the Companion is not running

Look for the Liora mark in the macOS menu bar. If it is missing, launch Liora Companion from Applications; the panel reconnects on its own within a few seconds. Both pieces must run under the same macOS user account.

The Companion says it is waiting for the Premiere panel

The Companion is healthy but no panel has connected yet. Open Liora from Premiere’s Extensions menu.

The panel says an update is required

The two halves update through separate channels — the panel through Creative Cloud, the Companion through its own updater — so they can drift. Update the Companion from its menu, and check Creative Cloud for a panel update.

An engine says “sign in required”

Open Terminal, run claude or codex, complete the normal sign-in, then reopen the Companion menu.

More detail lives in the Companion setup guide. Still stuck? Email support@getliora.app and tell us which step you reached.