Lisbon/Almada — Quiet Angle Holdings has been awarded public funding to research and develop AI-enabled, near-real-time post-production workflows that can run directly on set. The project begins in October 2025 and is scheduled to conclude in June 2026, with field tests planned on Oaxial Pictures development projects.
The award is framed within Portugal’s recovery and innovation push, which channels European funds to digital transformation and business innovation through the Recovery and Resilience Plan (PRR). The PRR runs to 2026 and prioritizes measures that strengthen productivity, digitization, and skills in the economy. Within that landscape, StartUP Voucher, promoted by IAPMEI, supports idea-stage, technology-driven entrepreneurship, complementing voucher instruments for startups developing new digital/AI products.
What the R&D covers
Quiet Angle’s work program focuses on building a small, repeatable stack that moves post tasks upstream to the set without adding crew. The plan includes:
- Autonomous ingest & sync of camera/audio, checksum verification, and on-set proxy generation.
- Speech-to-text transcripts and searchable notes, enabling script-supervisor alignment and faster review.
- AI-assisted assembly (selects and rough cuts) based on circled takes, slates, and shot metadata.
- Color-managed dailies and lightweight, festival-ready delivery packs for editors and producers.
- Quality control layers to flag out-of-gamut footage, missing media, or sync errors before wrap.
The goal is to compress the time from “camera down” to “viewable dailies” while preserving creative intent, improving continuity, and reducing rework later in the pipeline. Industry experiments with AI-assisted logging, transcription, and virtual-production-adjacent workflows suggest meaningful efficiency gains are possible when tools are integrated thoughtfully into existing practices.
“We’re interested in structure, not spectacle—a pipeline that’s quiet, deterministic, and respectful of the craft,” the company said in a statement. “If we get this right, small teams can move faster with fewer blind spots between set and post.”
Why it matters
For indie productions and short-run series, post bottlenecks typically appear in handoff moments—ingest, sync, organizing footage, and getting a first look to creative stakeholders. Near-real-time, on-set workflows aim to surface problems the same day, reduce turnaround for editorial, and enable more confident reshoots or pickups while the team is still together.
Quiet Angle will share non-sensitive learnings with partners and explore selective collaborations with post houses, distributors, and tech providers aligned with indie-scale, festival-ready delivery.