Take a film apart.
Then build with the pieces.
Cutaway reads how a shot was lit, framed, staged and cut — then hands you those parts as something you can edit and rebuild with.
- Shot
- P02 · OTS
- Duration
- 2.68 s
- Aspect
- 16:9
- Lens
- 60–85 mm
- Camera height
- 1.25 m
- Key:fill
- 2.5:1
- Palette
- 7 swatches · #050405
- Displacement
- 4.51% of frame width
Shot and generated in-house.
What one unlocked cut gives you
One cut, unlocked. Here is everything that came out of it.
We split your video into its cuts, then you open the ones you want. This is a single cut of our own footage, run through the same pipeline a paying unlock uses — nothing on this board was written for the demo.
Shot timeline
3 cuts · 8.04s · unlock one at a time
10 cr
10 crScene notes
P02 · read off the frameThe woman continues to sit across the diner booth from the man, maintaining eye contact, with coffee cups on the table.
- Shot size
- OTS
- Camera move
- static
- Audio
- faint ambient hum, subtle rain outside
- Dialogue
- none spoken
- On-screen text
- none in this cut
How hard this is to rebuild
- People
- 2
- Faces
- medium
- Lighting
- mixed
- Period
- contemporary
Exposure
false colour · waveformColour palette
k=10Accent
- Dominant
- #050405
- Contrast
- 43.9
- Mean luma
- 35.2
Lighting plot
2.5:1- Exposure
- T2.8
Staging
Over the shoulder- A
- man at table
- B
- woman at table
- Coverage
- Single setup
- Lens
- 60–85 mm
- Camera height
- 1.25 m
Cast & locations
reusable across cuts
B
Camera
% of frame width- Pan · tilt
- -2.03 , 0.58
- Push
- -1.24
- Subject
- 3.11
- Routing
- single start static
Lens
Regeneration prompt
P02 · 24 fpsSCENE CONTEXT — Immediately before this, the previous cut showed: A woman sits across a diner booth from a man, looking at him intently, with two coffee cups on the table between them. This cut runs 2.68s. The woman continues to sit across the diner booth from the man, maintaining eye contact, with coffee cups on the table. A man with short dark hair, wearing a dark, possibly leather, jacket; his back is mostly to the camera. (contemporary, casual styling). A woman with medium-length dark brown hair styled with bangs, wearing a grey knitted sweater, and a serious expression. (contemporary, casual styling). A dimly lit classic American diner interior with booths, a counter with stools, and large windows looking out onto a dark, rainy street with some distant lights. ACTION BEATS — Beat 1 (0.0–2.7s): The woman continues to sit across the diner booth from the man, maintaining eye contact, with coffee cups on the table. ACTING — Micro-pauses before reactions, precise eye-line (never into the lens), wet living eyes with catch-lights, visible breath and chest rise, weight readable through the body. Physics respected throughout CAMERA — OTS framing. shot on roughly 60–85mm, camera about 1.25m off the ground. Placement: man at table at centre frame, close to camera; woman at table at centre frame, mid ground. Static locked-off shot, fixed camera, tripod. LIGHT & PALETTE — Lighting: medium, key, from behind the camera, straight onto the subject, overhead height, 3000K; soft, fill, from camera right, slightly in front of the subject, eye height, 3500K; soft, window, from camera left, at ninety degrees to the lens axis, eye height, 4500K. Key to fill ratio about 2.5:1. Colour palette drawn from #070707, #222320, #50493b, #947d62. dark, desaturated with cool tones and warm practical lights, shadows are deep but retain some detail. cinematic, shallow depth of field, slight filmic grain, soft focus on background elements. Exact hues are inherited from the opening frame — do not impose any colour cast of your own. SOUND — Heard in this cut: faint ambient hum, subtle rain outside. Diegetic only. No music, no subtitles. NEGATIVES — NO camera motion. NO blurry. NO text
- Grade
- dark, desaturated with cool tones and warm practical lights, shadows are deep but retain some detail
- Texture
- cinematic, shallow depth of field, slight filmic grain, soft focus on background elements
The exact string the generator receives when you rebuild this cut.
How it works
Deconstruct
Paste the link to a reel, short or video — or, on a desktop, hover it and press the Cutaway button the extension puts on it. Splitting it into cuts is free — you get the whole timeline as a strip. Then you open the cuts you care about, one at a time.
Recompose
Pick a cut and edit its sources. Keyframes are generated first and shown to you for approval; only then does the clip get made.
Score
The result is compared to the original on five axes — palette, lighting and motion by measurement, composition and identity by a vision model.
What an analysis gives you
One video, taken apart into sources you can actually reuse.
- Shot timeline
- Every cut with its in and out, shot size and camera displacement. Splitting is free.
- Scene notes
- What happens in the cut, the sound over it, and any spoken line or on-screen text — kept in the language it was said in.
- Colour palette
- Every swatch with the share of the frame it holds.
- Lighting plot
- Fixture by fixture: direction, height, quality, colour temperature.
- Staging plan
- A scaled top-down floor plan: actors, camera, view cone, movement.
- Camera
- Move, shot type, lens range, height, net displacement and the exposure read.
- Exposure scope
- The frame in false colour with a luma waveform, and how much of it is clipped or crushed.
- Character sheets
- Recurring people, rendered as reusable reference so faces hold across cuts.
- Environment plates
- The place a scene happens in, as a clean plate you can reuse.
What makes this different
Everyone else hands you a reference. We hand you the recipe.
Shot libraries help you find a frame you like. That is where they stop. Cutaway reads how the frame was made and hands you those parts — the lighting plot, the staging, the camera path, the palette — as things you can read, measure and take into your own work.
Every number comes off the actual pixels. Where a model read the frame instead of a measurement, the screen says so — you always know which is which.
Pricing
Credits, bought in packs.
One-time purchases, no subscription. Prices in USD, tax added at checkout where it applies.
$9
180 credits
$19
400 credits+5%
$49
1,080 credits+10%
You only pay for the cuts you open. Splitting a video into its cuts is free, and a cut that fails to open costs nothing — the credits go straight back.
One more thing
We keep your source video, privately, for as long as its analysis exists — opening a cut has to read the original again, and the link it came from expires within days. Nobody but our own backend can reach that copy: it is never served back out, and it goes when you delete your account. The full account is in the Privacy Policy.