Montage

Montage is a video-clipping platform designed for production teams and content creators who need to transform long-form recordings into high-quality social media shorts while maintaining strict editorial oversight. Rather than generating clips at random, the tool uses a brief-based system where you define your goals before the AI scans the footage. It surfaces potential highlights and scores them based on your specific requirements and social platform fit. The standout feature is its text-based editing interface; you trim the video by deleting sentences or words from a transcript. This allows producers to refine speech-heavy content, such as podcasts or panels, with a level of precision that timeline-based automation often misses. Montage stands out by acknowledging that AI outputs are rarely the final version. It supports 4K files up to 20GB and offers XML exports for Adobe Premiere and Final Cut Pro. This makes it more of a workflow accelerator than a standalone consumer tool. It bridges the gap between raw footage and a polished edit, giving professional teams a way to handle the tedious work of clip discovery without losing the ability to perform manual finishing in their preferred editing software.