Native macOS App
Every frame has a palette waiting to be found
PaletteFrame analyzes your videos and extracts their dominant colors into beautiful, shareable exports. Built for filmmakers, designers, and anyone who sees in color.
Capabilities
Built for people who see differently
Universal Format Support
MP4, MOV, MKV, AVI, WebM, and more. Every codec you throw at it — H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9, AV1, ProRes — handled natively through a hybrid decoder that just works.
K-Means Color Extraction
Intelligent clustering pulls 5, 7, 10, or 12 dominant colors from your footage. Sorted by prominence, filtered for duplicates, with letterboxing excluded automatically.
Hero Frame Selection
Choose the sharpest candidate, or let the new Palette mode pick the frame that best represents your film's overall color. Then fine-tune from 24 auto-selected options.
Export in HD, 2K & 4K
Professional PNG exports with hex codes, four layout modes, and 300 DPI print-ready quality. Share or use in your creative workflow.
Analysis Depth, Your Call
Four tiers — Fast, Standard, Deep, and Exhaustive — let you trade speed for accuracy. Quick previews in seconds, or exhaustive sweeps that leave no frame unsampled.
True HDR10 & Dolby Vision
Accurate color from HDR10 and Dolby Vision sources — highlights, wide gamuts, and tone mapping handled correctly so your palettes reflect what the colorist actually graded.
Workflow
Three steps. One beautiful result.
Import
Drag any video file onto PaletteFrame. All major formats supported out of the box — MP4, MOV, MKV, AVI, WebM, and more.
Analyze
K-means clustering samples your footage intelligently. Watch as dominant colors emerge in real-time, sorted by prominence.
Export
Choose your hero frame, select a layout, pick your resolution. Export a stunning PNG with hex codes — ready to share or print.
Start seeing your videos in color
Available now on the Mac App Store. Requires macOS 15.0 (Sequoia) or later. Apple Silicon and Intel supported.
Video Formats
MP4, MOV, M4V, MKV, AVI, WebM, MPG, MPEG, FLV, WMV
Codecs
H.264, H.265/HEVC, VP8, VP9, AV1, ProRes, MPEG-4, Motion JPEG
Built With
Swift 6 & SwiftUI, AVFoundation, FFmpeg 6.1, Core Image, Accelerate
Performance
Tested on 70GB+ files. Hardware accelerated via VideoToolbox. HDR10 and Dolby Vision supported.