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what features does vMix have, which OBS doesnt, that would be worth switching to a proprietary and paid program instead of a free, open source one?

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I'd be interested to know as well. I may be in the minority, but I'll take a FOSS project with 80% of the features over a proprietary one with 100% of the features, almost every time. The philosophy of freedom is usually more important to me than squeezing out every last drop of functionality in exchange for a black box that I have to pay for and rely on some company that may or may not exist in a few years to develop it.

I’m pretty sure this has changed now, but when I first looked at OBS versus vmix, OBS did not have good NDI Support. Since the twice a year video production I put on is kind of like a hobby although I get paid, I just went with VMix and haven’t looked back. (Video is not my main job)

vMix is Windows-only, so I'd imagine the people it targets don't think about licensing much.

>vMix is Windows-only, so I'd imagine the people it targets don't think about licensing much.

they probably think about money, though. and whether there's a significant difference in features or not.

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