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OBS is basically the Gimp or Libreoffice of video production. There are paid tools that are better but if you don't mind the quirks it does pretty much everyth

• shados 5y ago
  I think its a step above that. For many workflows, OBS is basically the best option. I bought XSplit a long time ago, when it was in beta or something. OBS came out around that time but it wasn't what it is today. Today though? I still use OBS even though I still have XSPlit (I got a perpetual license). If there's something much better that isn't thousands of dollars, I'd like to know what it is. There's a lot of commercial editors that are nicer than Gimp, and Office IMO still beats Libreoffice and isn't that expensive. But OBS? I don't know anything much better. The plugin ecosystem and the community support is just top notch too, because EVERYONE uses OBS. If you use a commercial option, it's much harder to google up how to do some stuff.
  • noxvilleza 5y ago
    XSplit was pretty good feature-wise in ~2013/2014 - I don't think OBS would be as feature-rich if not for Xsplit. The only other software I can recall which was an alternative to Xsplit was Wirecast - but it very expensive for small-time streamers (like ~$400 or so?), and had pretty high hardware specs. Definitely agree with you regarding the plugin ecosystem, it's a key reason why OBS was able to explode in popularity - and many popular plugin features have been merged into the main app over time.