Begginer with no money

So ive been doing some music for a while and now I wanna try and start composing movies and see if this direction takes me anywhere.

The thing is that like many bedroom producers I got my DAW and plugins in “alternative” ways.

Of course if I’ll work for someone one for real I won’t use anything like that but I wonder if I could make my portfolio or random YouTube scoring with my plugins.

I don’t wanna spend a bunch of money on something that might not even go anywhere