The color of every shot
Extract a color palette from a video
See the color story of an entire video in one image. FrameCatcher reads the dominant color of every shot and lays them side by side into a color barcode.
How it works
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Choose your video
It is read in this tab. Each shot is detected and its average color is measured from the real frames.
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Choose the shots
Keep the shots you want represented in the palette.
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Export the barcode
Download a color-barcode image that maps the film's palette from start to finish.
- One dominant color per shot, read from the real footage
- A color barcode across the whole timeline
- Perfect for grading references and mood boards
- Exported as a clean, shareable image
What people use it for
A movie barcode of a whole film
Every shot becomes one vertical stripe of its average color, laid left to right in order. The result reads as the color story of the edit: where it warms up, where it drains out, where a single shot breaks the pattern.
A grading reference you can hold up
Matching a look is easier when you can see what the look actually is. The barcode shows the palette a film committed to across its whole length, not just the one frame everyone quotes.
Palettes for design, brand and mood boards
A video you like is a color scheme nobody has written down yet. This writes it down.
Seeing structure you cannot see while watching
Acts, locations and time of day tend to show up as bands of color. They are obvious in a barcode and almost invisible while the film is playing.
Frequently asked
- How is each color chosen?
- FrameCatcher measures the average color of each shot from its actual frames, so the palette reflects the real footage.
- What can I use the palette for?
- Color-grading references, mood boards, brand and design inspiration, or simply understanding a film's visual rhythm.
- What exactly is a movie barcode?
- One image where every shot in a film is squeezed into a thin vertical stripe of its average color, in order. Stand back from it and you are looking at the film's palette from first frame to last.
- What do I get out of it?
- A single image you can save or print. It is a picture, not a list of codes, so it is made to be looked at and compared rather than pasted into a design tool.
- Does it work on a short clip?
- Yes, though it is more interesting the longer the video. A few shots give you a few stripes; a feature gives you something with shape to it.
Ready to try it?
Pick a video and see it work. Free, no account, and it never leaves your browser.