MULTI-MEDIA AUTHORING TOOL EXCLUSIVELY FOR MAC OS X!!
Arboretum Systems is pleased to announce its entry to the consumer video/audio market with Montage™, the first media software that lets creators work like they think. Montage™ features a groundbreaking \"trackless\" workspace that allows the free manipulation of video, audio, stills, and text in an infinitely expandable window.
Montage™ is the crystallization of Arboretum's desire to change the way computers are used for video, film, multimedia, and music production at all levels.
Montage™ and Video
The only consumer-priced alternative to Apple's iMovie software, Montage™ was built for OS X from the ground up and is 100% Cocoa native. \"Montage™ was created for aspiring moviemakers who literally think 'outside the box,'\" said Arboretum CEO, Georges Jaroslaw. \"If you can see a movie in your mind, you can easily create it in our software by placing and editing clips in the workspace. The user interface is completely transparent.\"
Media clips can be imported or captured in real time from a FireWire DV camera using remote machine control, then freely arranged in the workspace to make movies.  

  When video clips are dragged on top of each other instant dissolves are created - clicking on the resulting connection graphic brings up a selection of fully editable professional compositors, transitions, and wipes. In addition, over a dozen video effects (See Features for details), including edge detection, emboss, film noise, and color tint are available and can be applied to any video clip; a realtime preview box takes the guesswork out of adjusting effect parameters.
Montage™ and Audio
With Arboretum's prestigious history as a music software developer, Montage's audio capabilities are second to none. Audio clips can be edited, arranged, stacked, and processed to generate stunning soundtracks. There is no track limit because . . . there are no tracks.
The program comes with a wide variety of studio-quality effects from Arboretum's acclaimed Hyperprism suite of processors (See Features for details), and more can be added via a flexible plug-in architecture - including the popular Ray Gun and Ray Gun Pro for cleaning up scratchy vinyl, tape hiss, hum, and other problem recordings.
Montage™ will also come with over 70 royalty-free audio clips from celebrated sound designer Frank Serafine (Star Trek, TRON, Poltergeist, Hunt for Red October, Virtuosity). Users of video programs who want to enhance their final movie with cutting-edge audio will find Montage an ideal complement to their current software.
Both audio and video can be easily time-stretched to accomplish anything from filling out a few seconds of a scene to creating awesome slow motion effects. Clips can be nudged frame by frame, and locked to the timeline to prevent accidental shifts. And the Overview window makes it extremely simple to zoom in on any portion of a movie, plus move individual clips and even entire scenes at once.