IBC2026· RAI Amsterdam· Atomos Stand 7.B19
Mocha Chai Brought PlanckOne FoleyAI
to ATOMOSphere, Demonstrated Live at IBC2026
IBC2026 · RAI AmsterdamFour days of the broadcast industry's calendar, and the show where PlanckOne FoleyAI met ATOMOSphere in public for the first time.
Mocha Chai Laboratories has integrated PlanckOne FoleyAI with ATOMOSphere, the cloud production platform from Atomos — and the two companies showed the workflow running end to end at IBC2026, at Atomos stand 7.B19, RAI Amsterdam.
The integration closes a gap that has sat in the middle of post-production for decades. Footage that lands in an ATOMOSphere workspace can now be sent straight to PlanckOne FoleyAI, which watches the picture and returns synchronized diegetic sound — footsteps, fabric movement and impacts — laid out as separate, editable layers. No stems go in. No reference track goes in. The picture is the brief.
The demo station · Stand 7.B19ATOMOSphere on one screen, PlanckOne FoleyAI on the other — the Fabric layer open beside the picture it was generated from.
What visitors saw at stand 7.B19
The demonstration at IBC2026 was deliberately unglamorous, because the point was the round trip. A clip sat in an ATOMOSphere workspace. It was sent to PlanckOne FoleyAI from inside that workspace. It came back as a Foley session with the layers already split — and a sound designer then pushed a footstep pass around at the stand, changing weight and cadence, without touching anything else in the mix.
Live walkthroughVisitors taken through the round trip at the stand, from workspace hand-off to split Foley layers.
Mocha Chai & AtomosThe two teams at the stand together, running the integration for visitors across all four days.
Atomos and Mocha Chai staff were at the stand across all four days of the show, from Friday 11 to Monday 14 September at RAI Amsterdam.
Weeks of scheduling, compressed into hours
A conventional Foley pass means booking a stage, a Foley artist, a mixer and a recordist, then spotting the cut and performing it prop by prop. It is craft work, and it is expensive to schedule early — which is exactly when a director most wants to hear whether a scene is working.
PlanckOne FoleyAI is built to produce a defensible starting point in hours rather than weeks, so that the conversation about sound can begin while picture is still moving. It is not a replacement for the stage. It is what the stage day can start from.
See the action, generate the soundThe stand display between demos — headphones out, cards on the counter, title screen up.
Built inside a working post house
PlanckOne FoleyAI was developed by Mocha Chai Laboratories, a Dolby Vision and Dolby Atmos certified facility that has spent more than a decade doing colour, editorial and sound for feature, television and branded work across Asia. The system is built on open-source large language models and trained on the studio's own in-house sound library together with real post-production data from jobs that shipped.
That provenance shows up in the design decisions: PlanckOne FoleyAI is made to drop into editorial pipelines that already exist, rather than asking a team to rebuild around it.
Three layers, splitEvery sound in its own category — 01 Footsteps, 02 Fabric, 03 Impacts — each one editable on its own.
For filmmakers, by filmmakersThe team behind PlanckOne FoleyAI on the floor at IBC2026 — the same people who run the post house it was built in.
“We built this because we needed it ourselves. Every Foley day starts with hours of spotting and preparation before anyone performs a single step, and that time gets spent whether the scene survives the edit or not. Putting PlanckOne FoleyAI inside ATOMOSphere means a team can hear a scene's Foley the same day the footage lands — and then spend the stage day on the moments that actually deserve a performer.”
Yee-Wei Chai · Founder, Mocha Chai Laboratories
Why ATOMOSphere
ATOMOSphere is a cloud-based production ecosystem used by video professionals, photographers and content creators to upload, store, edit, share, review and collaborate on media from anywhere in the world. For most productions it is already the first place footage arrives — which makes it the sensible place for sound work to begin, without a download, a hand-off and an upload in between.
The integration extends ATOMOSphere past storage, review and collaboration, wiring cloud-held video directly into AI-assisted sound post. Editors and sound teams move from picture to a structured, editable Foley session in one step.
“Foley is a vital part of creating a believable and immersive soundtrack, but it can also be one of the most time-consuming stages of post-production. Integrating PlanckOne FoleyAI with ATOMOSphere gives filmmakers and sound designers an intelligent starting point much earlier in the process, while keeping creative decisions firmly in the hands of the people shaping the final mix.”
Peter Barber · CEO, Atomos
Availability
PlanckOne FoleyAI is currently in beta. A localized native version and a subscription service are scheduled to launch soon. Conversations that started at IBC2026 are continuing; productions interested in early access can get in touch.
About Mocha Chai Laboratories
Mocha Chai Laboratories is an award-winning film and post-production studio working with directors, networks and brands from pitch to post. Its Dolby Vision and Dolby Atmos certified facility supports colour, editorial and sound for feature, television and branded content across Asia, and its work extends into original IP development and distribution. For filmmakers, by filmmakers. mochachailab.com
About PlanckOne FoleyAI
PlanckOne FoleyAI generates synchronized diegetic sound directly from picture. It identifies the actions, materials and environments on screen and returns footsteps, fabric movement and impacts as separate, fully editable layers. It is built on open-source large language models and trained on Mocha Chai Laboratories' in-house sound library and real-world post-production data.
About ATOMOSphere
ATOMOSphere is the cloud production platform from Atomos, enabling users to upload, store, edit, share, review and collaborate on media from anywhere in the world. atomos.com