CoreVideo Pro production console: scene list, live program with multi-camera layout and lower-third, participant roster with roles and audio meters, and Take/Record/Stream controls

In development · standalone studio

Produce polished live conversations from your Zoom calls.

CoreVideo Pro is the premium, all-in-one studio being built for live Zoom production: everything the CoreVideo plugin captures, plus multi-scene production, participant management, recording and multi-destination streaming, and an AI auto-director — in one standalone app for producers who want a dedicated console rather than a plugin.

Pro is not released yet. There is no download and no price. This page and the architecture notes describe what is being built; the free OBS plugin is the shipping product today, and ZComms is the shipping talkback desk.

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Multi-Scene ProductionIntro, interview, speaker-plus-slides, panel, and closing scene templates with Cut/Fade/Slide transitions and Take.

Participant ManagementLive Zoom roster with Host, Presenter, Panelist, and Guest roles, manual scene-slot assignment, and per-participant audio and video controls.

Streaming & RecordingProgram and ISO recording, 1080p/4K output profiles, and multi-destination RTMP/NDI/SRT streaming with preflight checks.

AI Auto-DirectMagic Scene and Set & Forget automatically recommend and take scene layouts from live Zoom activity, so a show can run itself.

The complete production studio

Pro is designed as a Zoom-native studio for Windows and macOS. Everything below is the capability set the product is being built toward — a target, not an inventory of what runs today. Individual items land, and get announced, one at a time.

Zoom capture & media core

True Zoom Meeting SDK raw video and audio — no window or virtual-camera hacks
Clean per-participant video, audio, and screen-share capture
GPU compositor (Direct3D on Windows, Metal on macOS)
Isolated capture process, automatic reconnect, and webinar mode

Scenes, templates & switching

One-click professional templates: solo, interview, panel, screen-share, webinar
Grid, speaker-focus, and picture-in-picture layouts with slot rules
Program/preview workflow with explicit Take and Cut/Fade/Slide transitions
Save and reload complete show presets

AI direction

Magic Scene builds a ready-to-stream show from the live call
Set & Forget auto-director switches on active speaker and screen share
Role-aware logic — host for intros, presenter for shares, speaker for discussion
Manual overrides always win, with one click back to auto

Participants & framing

Every participant treated as a production-ready source, not a raw feed
Face-aware auto-crop, centering, and manual zoom override
Speaker holds to prevent rapid cutting, with graceful video-drop fallback
Stable Host / Presenter / Panelist / Guest role overrides

Audio

Per-participant gain with smart auto-leveling and manual trim
Per-source noise suppression, mute, and solo
Master meter with limiter and clipping warnings
A/V sync offset for local capture sources

Graphics, captions & branding

Auto lower-thirds from Zoom name and role, with manual override
Real-time program captions with speaker-name attribution
Brand kit — logo, color, font, background — applied automatically
Brand bug, banners, call-to-action overlays, and per-source chroma key

Local cameras (Blackmagic & AJA)

Auto-detect DeckLink/UltraStudio and AJA Io/Kona, with hot-plug
SDI/HDMI input selection with embedded or separate audio
Local cameras as first-class sources, fillable into any slot
Sub-100ms preview latency with signal-health monitoring

Recording & streaming

Local MP4/MOV recording up to 4K at 30/60fps
Multi-destination RTMP/NDI/SRT with YouTube, Twitch, and custom presets
Per-participant ISO recording for clean guest capture
Hardware encoding (NVENC, Quick Sync, AMF, VideoToolbox) with output preflight

Which one do I use?

Already run your shows in OBS? The free OBS plugin brings clean Zoom participants in as native sources, and it is available today. Need to talk to one person without talking to the room? ZComms is the standalone talkback desk, also available today. CoreVideo Pro is the dedicated console being built on the same capture core — when it is ready to install, it will be on this page with a download button, not a paragraph.

Tier	Form factor	Best for
CoreVideo — Free, available now	OBS Studio plugin	Operators already running shows in OBS who want clean Zoom participants as native sources, ISO recording, an Active Speaker Director, and Stream Deck control.
ZComms — Available now	Standalone Windows app	Productions that need talkback: named keys into Zoom's private talkback channels, with its own operator position. See ZComms.
CoreVideo Pro — In development	Standalone app	Producers who want a dedicated studio — scenes, participants, outputs, recording, and AI auto-direct in one app. Not yet released.