# Montage Help Center

> How to make, edit, export and share videos with Montage, the video editor for the AI era.

Each article below is a Markdown page. The whole help center in one file: https://getmontage.ai/docs/llms-full.txt (shorter: https://getmontage.ai/docs/llms-small.txt).

## Get started

Your first video in five minutes.

- [What is Montage](https://getmontage.ai/docs/start/overview.md): Montage is a video editor you talk to: you add your footage, say what video you want, and the AI makes it. Then you watch it, comment on the picture, ask for changes and export.
- [Make your first video](https://getmontage.ai/docs/start/first-video.md): From your first sign-in to a finished video: what you see at each step, and what to press.
- [Describe the video you want](https://getmontage.ai/docs/start/describe.md): The box at the bottom of New video is where you tell Montage what to make. Here is what it holds, and how to write in it.
- [Plans and credits](https://getmontage.ai/docs/start/plans.md): Every plan, its price, its credits and what it adds. Credits pay for the AI's work; the plan decides the rest.
- [On the web and on Mac](https://getmontage.ai/docs/start/web-mac-windows.md): Montage is the same in your browser and in the Mac app. What changes is where your footage is kept and who makes the exported file.

## Your footage

Files Montage reads, big files, phone videos.

- [Files Montage can read](https://getmontage.ai/docs/footage/files.md): Drop your files as they come off your phone or camera: Montage takes videos, music, pictures, and a few other files, and prepares each one itself.
- [Big files](https://getmontage.ai/docs/footage/big-files.md): Add your footage as big as it comes. Here is how a big file goes up, what to do when the connection drops, and how much room your plan gives.
- [Phone videos](https://getmontage.ai/docs/footage/phone.md): Videos filmed on a phone go in as they are, from your computer or straight from your phone. Montage turns them upright and fixes their colours.
- [Where your originals are kept](https://getmontage.ai/docs/footage/originals.md): Your original is the file you brought, as it is. Where it is kept depends on how you added it: on the web, or with the Mac app.
- [Why a file is still getting ready](https://getmontage.ai/docs/footage/getting-ready.md): Every file goes through two steps before Montage can use it: Upload, then Prepare. Here is what each one means, and what to do when a file is stuck.
- [Delete footage](https://getmontage.ai/docs/footage/delete.md): Delete one file or many from Media, or a video together with its footage. Deleting frees space in your plan.

## Edit by asking

Ask for changes, comment on the picture, captions, color.

- [Ask for a change](https://getmontage.ai/docs/edit/ask.md): Open your video, write or say what you want different in Ask, and Montage changes the video. Each change is kept, so you can always go back.
- [Comment on the picture](https://getmontage.ai/docs/edit/comments.md): Leave notes on your video the way you would for an editor: on the whole video, on a moment, or on a spot of the picture. Then Fix all sends them to Montage at once.
- [Fix all](https://getmontage.ai/docs/edit/fix-all.md): Fix all sends every open comment to Montage in one message, and Montage makes all of them in one go.
- [Undo a change](https://getmontage.ai/docs/edit/undo.md): Every change Montage makes is a line of the video's History. Watch any line, and go back to it if you like it better.
- [Choose the AI model](https://getmontage.ai/docs/edit/model.md): Montage makes your video with one of three AI models: Haiku, Sonnet or Opus. The first version uses the one you pick; your changes then switch to Haiku, the fastest, to save your credits.
- [Captions](https://getmontage.ai/docs/edit/captions.md): Ask for captions and Montage writes the words you say on screen, timed to your voice, in the font, colour and place you describe.
- [Silences and retakes](https://getmontage.ai/docs/edit/clean-cuts.md): Montage finds the pauses, the lines you said again and the starts you dropped, and keeps only your best take of each line.
- [B-roll](https://getmontage.ai/docs/edit/b-roll.md): Add your extra shots, and Montage places them over your talk where they match what you say.
- [Zoom and reframe](https://getmontage.ai/docs/edit/frame.md): Ask for the shape your video needs and where to look, and Montage frames each shot: vertical, square or horizontal, zooms on the words that matter.
- [Color](https://getmontage.ai/docs/edit/color.md): Ask for a look in words, or bring your own look file, and Montage grades every shot the same way.
- [Animated text](https://getmontage.ai/docs/edit/text.md): Titles, figures, lower thirds, lists that build: describe the text and how it should move, and Montage designs it and animates it in your video.
- [Remove the background](https://getmontage.ai/docs/edit/background.md): Ask Montage to cut you out of your background, with no green screen, and to put any video, picture or colour behind you.
- [Music and sound](https://getmontage.ai/docs/edit/sound.md): Add your music and sounds, and Montage places them, sets how loud each one is at each moment, and keeps your voice clear.

## Styles and components

Your brand as a style, components.

- [What a style is](https://getmontage.ai/docs/library/styles.md): A style is how your videos look, written in words: Montage reads it and edits your video that way. Here is what is inside one, and how to use it.
- [Save your brand as a style](https://getmontage.ai/docs/library/brand.md): Give Montage your logo, your fonts and your colours once, ask it to keep them as a style, and every video you pick it for follows your brand.
- [Components](https://getmontage.ai/docs/library/components.md): A component is a piece of a video you keep for later, such as a title, a name tag or an end screen. Montage places it in your next videos when you ask.

## Export

The video, the sound, or the cut for your editor.

- [Export a video](https://getmontage.ai/docs/export/overview.md): Press Export at the top of your video, pick what you take away and, for a video, its quality: Montage makes the file at your video's full size.
- [Choose the quality](https://getmontage.ai/docs/export/quality.md): For a video, you pick one of three qualities. They change how much detail each second keeps, so how big the file is; the picture's size stays your video's own.
- [The sound alone](https://getmontage.ai/docs/export/sound.md): Sound only gives you everything heard in your video, voice, music and sounds mixed, as one WAV file.
- [To Premiere Pro or DaVinci Resolve](https://getmontage.ai/docs/export/premiere-resolve.md): Take the cut Montage made into your own editing app, as a timeline you can change clip by clip, linked to your own footage.
- [Slow or failed export](https://getmontage.ai/docs/export/slow.md): Why an export takes time, what each message means, and what to do when your file wasn't made.

## Share and work together

Review links, your clients, your team.

- [Send a review link](https://getmontage.ai/docs/share/review-link.md): Turn on a public link and send it: anyone who has it can watch your video and comment on the picture, without an account.
- [Comments from a client](https://getmontage.ai/docs/share/guests.md): Invite a client by email: they get their own link, watch the video and click the picture where something should change. Their comments land in your video, ready for Montage.
- [Invite your team](https://getmontage.ai/docs/share/team.md): Bring people into your workspace: they see and work on every video, and share its credits. Inviting comes with the Max and Ultra plans.
- [Workspaces](https://getmontage.ai/docs/share/workspaces.md): A workspace holds your videos, your footage, your Library, your plan and your credits. Here is how to have more than one and move between them.

## Mac app

Install it, export with your computer's chip.

- [What the app does better](https://getmontage.ai/docs/desktop/overview.md): Montage for Mac is the same Montage, with your computer's own files and video chip: nothing to upload, and exports made from your originals, in every format.
- [Install on Mac](https://getmontage.ai/docs/desktop/install-mac.md): Download Montage for Mac, put it in Applications and sign in: your videos and your account are the same as on the web.
- [Export settings and presets](https://getmontage.ai/docs/desktop/export.md): In the Mac app, the export window starts with presets and opens every setting under More settings: format, encoding, size, pictures a second, quality, colours and sound.
- [Updates](https://getmontage.ai/docs/desktop/updates.md): Montage's screens update by themselves every time you open the app; the app around them gets new versions through a card that asks you to restart.

## Account and billing

Credits and plans.

- [What uses credits](https://getmontage.ai/docs/account/credits.md): Credits pay for one thing: the AI's work on your videos. Here is what costs credits, what does not, and what happens when they run out.
- [Change or cancel your plan](https://getmontage.ai/docs/account/change-plan.md): Move to a bigger or smaller plan, or from monthly to yearly, on Plan and credits. A bigger plan starts today; a smaller one waits for the end of what you paid.

## For AI agents

Claude, Cursor or your own AI, connected to Montage.

- [How agents use Montage](https://getmontage.ai/docs/agents/overview.md): Connect your own AI (Claude, ChatGPT, Claude Code, Cursor, Codex…) to Montage's MCP server, and it makes and exports videos with your workspace's footage, Library and credits.
- [Connect Claude](https://getmontage.ai/docs/agents/claude.md): Add Montage to Claude (claude.ai, the Claude app for Mac and Windows) as a custom connector, then ask Claude for a video.
- [Connect Claude Code](https://getmontage.ai/docs/agents/claude-code.md): One command adds Montage to Claude Code; then Claude Code can import files from your project, edit your videos and export them.
- [Connect Cursor](https://getmontage.ai/docs/agents/cursor.md): Add Montage to Cursor as an MCP server, sign in once, and Cursor's agent can make and export your videos.
- [Connect another AI](https://getmontage.ai/docs/agents/other.md): Any AI that takes a remote MCP server with sign-in can use Montage: ChatGPT, Codex, VS Code and others, with the same server URL.
- [Every tool](https://getmontage.ai/docs/agents/tools.md): Every tool Montage's MCP server gives your AI, with its options and what it answers.
- [The Montage skill](https://getmontage.ai/docs/agents/skill.md): The Montage skill is a small folder of instructions your AI reads when you ask it for a video: how Montage works, which tool comes first, and what to ask you.
- [llms.txt and Markdown pages](https://getmontage.ai/docs/agents/llms.md): Every page of these docs is also plain text an AI can read: an llms.txt that lists them, one file with all of them, and a Markdown copy of each page.

## Help

When something doesn't work.

- [Something doesn't work](https://getmontage.ai/docs/help/troubleshooting.md): Find what you see below and what to do. If it is still stuck, press Contact support, bottom left in Montage.
- [Error messages](https://getmontage.ai/docs/help/errors.md): Every message Montage shows when something goes wrong, word for word, with what it means and what to do.
- [Every question](https://getmontage.ai/docs/help/faq.md): Every question answered in these docs, in one place, by section. Each one opens the page that answers it.

## Optional

- [Montage](https://getmontage.ai/llms.txt): the rest of the site