Spectra

Spectra is an app for creating computational art from your video and audio. With the built-in presets and video and audio samples, you can generate cool art immediately! But Spectra is for customizing using your own settings and video.

File Sharing

• You can drag settings files in and out of the My Settings table from and to the Finder, making them easier to share. For example you can drag a settings file out of My Settings to iCloud Drive which can then be accessed by the iOS version of Spectra.
• You can drag links to settings files in HTML into the My Settings table: the linked setting file will be downloaded and inserted into the table.
• In particular you can drag settings files linked to an internal web page of "more settings" into the ‘My Settings’ table. Access this new window with the new ‘Show More Settings’ button at the bottom of the presets table.

Improved

• Improved color generation for videos with very short duration
• Added an 'Audio' menu to the menu bar and reorganized menu items to mimic the organization of the menus in the iOS version of Spectra.
• Spectra settings files now support Quick Look. This way spectra settings files have representative icons in the Finder, and elsewhere, as they preview or look like what they do when rendered in Spectra.
• The video color generator has greater resolution frame time extraction, which yields a wider color gamut, especially for short videos.
• Because of changes to the iOS version of the app, Spectra settings files can be more easily shared between the two platforms. In particular this is because the iOS version now supports opening and saving Spectra files to iCloud Drive.
• Various user interface enhancements to make the app easier to learn and use