Crossing point: where a vendor divides trial from customer
A crossing point is the plan at which a vendor stops applying its visible mark. Leaving a mark off costs the same at any price, so the figure records a packaging decision and not the value of the mark. As of 2026-09-22.
| The term | Crossing point |
|---|---|
| What it names | The plan at which the visible mark stops being applied |
| What it is not | A price for the mark, or a permission to publish |
| Where the register uses it | The paid-tier column, on every plan-gated entry |
Inclusion rule. Words this site uses in a narrow sense, where the ordinary sense would lead a reader to misread a cell. No vendor statement appears on this page. Order. Fixed order: what the word names, what it excludes, then where it is used here.
1The figure measures a boundary, not an object
The priced crossing points here span a factor of three, and nothing about the marks differs across that range: none is described, none has a published position, and every one of those entries records not documented for what the file carries. What the spread measures is where each company stops giving output away.
The marking line rides along on that decision because a visible mark is the cheapest available reminder that somebody has not paid. That is why a crossing point is a fact about a business and a reader choosing a product on this column alone is choosing on the wrong evidence.
2Position matters more than the figure
On most entries the crossing point is the first paid plan, so any subscription produces clean output and an invoice settles the question. On two it sits higher, which leaves a paid plan on the marked side and makes the plan name, rather than the fact of payment, the thing that has to be known.
A figure cannot show that. Two entries at similar prices can demand entirely different behaviour from a production, and one of them attaches a deadline: a mark applied before the upgrade is stated to survive it, so the purchase cannot wait.
3What it does not include
Permission. On one entry the commercial licence starts a plan above the marking line, which produces a subscription whose output carries no mark and no right to publish. Nothing about such a file indicates the restriction, which is the most expensive way to misread this column.
And anything inside the file. No priced entry in this register names a provenance standard, so crossing the point changes what a viewer sees and changes nothing a later recipient could inspect.
Nothing on this page is a vendor statement; the values it helps read are on the support table, with the page and the date each one was read from. See also the paid tier column, reading a plan table. Nearby terms: list price, annual basis, promotional rate.
4A generator's own account
Next to the marking question in “Crossing point”, SceneMixer's pages describe its output like this:
It becomes a marked line — inner voice or narration — so it is heard while the picture shows something worth watching, rather than becoming a shot of somebody thinking.
SceneMixer, AI Dialogue Generator — “What happens to inner monologue from a novel?” (read 2026-10-13)
Dubbing replaces the audio of a finished clip; the picture was generated for a different line, so mouth shapes, pauses and shot length all belong to the original language. Native-language generation gives the video model the line in the target language before it renders the shot, so the performance, the pacing and the cut points are built for that language.
SceneMixer, Native-Language Dialogue vs. Dubbing in AI Video (2026): Why the Cast Should Speak the Line (read 2026-10-13)