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PaletteFrame is a native Mac app that extracts dominant color palettes from any video (H.264, ProRes, AV1, anything) and exports them as a shareable PNG with a hero frame. Built for filmmakers, colorists, and designers who think in palettes.
I'm Bill, an EP at a creative studio. I've spent 20 years staring at color references, mood boards, and frame grabs, and I always wanted a fast way to pull the actual palette out of a finished cut, not just eyeball it.
So I built PaletteFrame. Drop in a video, and it samples frames, runs k-means clustering across them, and gives you the dominant colors weighted by how much screen area they actually occupy. Then it exports the whole thing (hero frame plus palette) as a clean HD/2K/4K PNG you can drop into a deck, a treatment, or a Notion page.
A few things I'm proud of: - Universal codec support. Hybrid decoder runs AVFoundation/VideoToolbox for H.264/H.265/ProRes, and falls back to FFmpeg for VP9, AV1, WebM, MKV, and everything else. Tested on files up 50GB+ - Three hero-frame modes. Auto-pick the sharpest frame, the frame that best represents the overall palette, or scrub through 24 candidates yourself - Configurable depth. Fast (30 frames) for a quick read, Exhaustive (every ~1s) for a music video or short film where every cut matters - Native Mac, no subscription. SwiftUI, ⌘E to export, $9.99 one-time on the Mac App Store
Use cases I've seen so far: directors building treatments, colorists checking grade consistency, designers grabbing palettes from reference films, photographers pulling moods from b-roll.
Would love your feedback, especially on hero frame selection and which export sizes you'd actually use. AMA below!
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About PaletteFrame on Product Hunt
“Extract beautiful color palettes from any video”
PaletteFrame was submitted on Product Hunt and earned 3 upvotes and 1 comments, placing #124 on the daily leaderboard. PaletteFrame is a native Mac app that extracts dominant color palettes from any video (H.264, ProRes, AV1, anything) and exports them as a shareable PNG with a hero frame. Built for filmmakers, colorists, and designers who think in palettes.
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Bill Anastas
Hey Product Hunt 👋
I'm Bill, an EP at a creative studio. I've spent 20 years staring at color references, mood boards, and frame grabs, and I always wanted a fast way to pull the actual palette out of a finished cut, not just eyeball it.
So I built PaletteFrame. Drop in a video, and it samples frames, runs k-means clustering across them, and gives you the dominant colors weighted by how much screen area they actually occupy. Then it exports the whole thing (hero frame plus palette) as a clean HD/2K/4K PNG you can drop into a deck, a treatment, or a Notion page.
A few things I'm proud of:
- Universal codec support. Hybrid decoder runs AVFoundation/VideoToolbox for H.264/H.265/ProRes, and falls back to FFmpeg for VP9, AV1, WebM, MKV, and everything else. Tested on files up 50GB+
- Three hero-frame modes. Auto-pick the sharpest frame, the frame that best represents the overall palette, or scrub through 24 candidates yourself
- Configurable depth. Fast (30 frames) for a quick read, Exhaustive (every ~1s) for a music video or short film where every cut matters
- Native Mac, no subscription. SwiftUI, ⌘E to export, $9.99 one-time on the Mac App Store
Use cases I've seen so far: directors building treatments, colorists checking grade consistency, designers grabbing palettes from reference films, photographers pulling moods from b-roll.
Would love your feedback, especially on hero frame selection and which export sizes you'd actually use. AMA below!