OpenMontage

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<h1 align="center">OpenMontage</h1>

<p align="center"><strong>The first open-source, agentic video production system.</strong></p>

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  <a href="#start-from-a-video-you-already-love">Paste A Video</a> &nbsp;·&nbsp;
  <a href="#quick-start">Quick Start</a> &nbsp;·&nbsp;
  <a href="#try-these-prompts">Try These Prompts</a> &nbsp;·&nbsp;
  <a href="#pipelines">Pipelines</a> &nbsp;·&nbsp;
  <a href="#how-it-works">How It Works</a> &nbsp;·&nbsp;
  <a href="docs/PROVIDERS.md">Providers</a> &nbsp;·&nbsp;
  <a href="AGENT_GUIDE.md">Agent Guide</a>
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<p align="center"><strong>Follow The Build</strong></p>

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Turn your AI coding assistant into a full video production studio. Describe what you want in plain language — your agent handles research, scripting, asset generation, editing, and final composition.

**Important distinction:** OpenMontage can make image-based videos, but it can also make a real **video video** for free/open-source workflows: the agent builds a corpus from free stock footage and open archives, retrieves actual motion clips, edits them into a timeline, and renders a finished piece. That is not the usual "animate a handful of stills an