Zoom has acquired the Zoom-based broadcast instruments created by the startup Liminal, together with two of the corporate’s co-founders, the videoconferencing platform introduced in a post on its blog. Liminal’s add-ons, ZoomOSC and ZoomISO, are constructed for creating skilled digital occasions, which Zoom will possible natively combine into its software program as a part of the acquisition.

As famous on Liminal’s website, ZoomOSC is designed to boost skilled conferences and occasions utilizing the Open Sound Control (OSC) protocol, enabling you to combine Zoom with third-party software program, {hardware} controllers, and media servers. Meanwhile, ZoomISO means that you can export every contributors’ video feed as a separate output to skilled manufacturing {hardware}, 5 of which you’ll select to output in HD.

By buying these property from Liminal, Zoom says it can assist the platform “bridge” the hole between “emerging” and “traditional” types of occasion management instruments, which ought to come in useful for broadcast studios, theaters, and different organizations that wish to create skilled streams. The platform took the dive into large-scale digital occasions when it first introduced its Events characteristic in May and formally rolled it out in July. With Events, organizers can create occasion hubs, promote tickets, and create a number of livestream classes all through the day.

There’s no phrase on when or how Zoom plans on integrating the options from Liminal, and it’s additionally unclear whether or not Liminal’s Zoom add-ons will nonetheless be obtainable individually from Zoom when the combination does happen. The Verge reached out to Zoom with a request for remark however didn’t instantly hear again.