Quine's founders, Stian Vrba, Kristian Skarseth and Gunleik Groven - met on the POPART H2020 research project at LABO mixed realities.
Quine is founded to disruptively improve workflows in film-and TV production
Developing a groundbreaking connected/distributed Production Asset Management system (PAM) we realized that we had to write our own development frameworks.
The goal was to have a product ready by January 2020.
Quine starts up in a cubicle at Simula
Quine shows off the first version of QuineBox™IoT at BIRtv in Beijing
Promotional tour in China
First production in Canada
Quine joins LADIO
Partners with Microsoft and decides to develop on Azure
First NAB show - Exhibiting with BandPro
QuineBox™IoT final hardware
First public pre-view of QuineCore/webUI
First early glimpse of the system at BIRtv - Beijing
We produce this conceptual commercial:
We also produced this BTS video explaining how we deployed the QuineCore tools to produce the commercial and the BTS video in 24 hours.
Finished with LADIO
QuineIngest is taking shape
First Chinese feature using the QuineBox
First TV-series produced entirely on the new platform, including Core, and QuineBox
NAB
Demonstrating the QuineBox™IoT with frame.io
Beijing
ShortFilm produced with iQiyi implementing the entire workflow with QuineIngest, webUI and QuineBox
One of the worlds first 5G based productions on Øya-festival, with TrippelM and Telia as partners, using prototype 5G network from Huawei.
A 24 episodes TV series we have been shadow-following since January, moves fully into the new software.
Joining Telia Startup
January 10th, three years after starting up and just barely on our projected timeline, QuineCore is out of Beta and we get our first "release" productions.
Telia has created campaigns for it's startups perfectly timed for the release version of QuineCore.
Google translated version. of the campaign
We're off to a flying start with new productions and producers coming in.
Covid. The entire production-world is closed down-
Despite this, we manage to finalize an investment-round and work on.
While Covid is a major bump, producers start to more actively look for collaborative solutions that demands a lower density of people on-set and in post.
Outlier, the first production to fully depend on our exchange solutions starts shooting in Northern Norway.
Editors in Oslo, post all over the country, shooting on multiple simultaneous locations.
We start producing use-case videos.
Here is Asta (Feature film)
6 months later, the "new-production-normal" is slowly getting into gear.
We integrate with Drylab's set-report, a popular script-supervisor tool
Quine wins a 4 year tender delivering QuineCore to the Norwegian Broadcast corporation.
So far in our first year in release we have served around 20 productions and contributed to more than 150 deliverables as feature films and episodes on TV.
Here is a bit of feedback from some of our users in 2020
We are greateful and have just started.