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Are you charging for these apps, or is Core Video Pro still in alpha?

ASKED BY · Unknown · 19 SEP 2026 · ▶ 00:08:06

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Core Video Pro is currently free and in early alpha; the Core Video OBS plugin is free with a full release and growing community adoption, with eventual monetization planned pending sustainability decisions.

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7:46don't get me wrong. But I think for a lot of people that are maybe just starting out that wanna start a podcast, for example, or maybe they're running sound and video at a small church and they don't have a huge budget. And sometimes, you know, all these subscription tools can get really expensive. You know, these costs start to add up over time.

8:06And you're not charging right now for these apps? No, this app that you're seeing isn't like alpha. So it's really early. There's a lot of functionality that's still missing. the core video OBS plugin is free it's uh there's there's a full release of that it's um like we got some people trying it out in the community getting some feedback from folks online

8:29it was kind of cool to see there's like 50 people using it in one day um so just from the zoom stat so you know it's it's great um I think that the OBS plugin is like the gateway drug and then hopefully it'll drive people towards this platform and yeah eventually I'd love to be able to charge right now I'm just trying to figure out like how do I do this how do I maintain it so as I'm growing

8:53I want to give people access to it and the ability to get feedback from actual people who are trying to use this in productions is invaluable. Absolutely so I'm looking at the website so it looks like it's I thought it was Windows only but you now also have a Mac version of this app what can you speak to the differences in terms of the video performance the engine the graphic subsystems

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