Guide

From a video you liked to the drawings behind it

Five steps, and only step four costs anything.

1
Install the extension
Open chrome://extensions, turn on Developer mode, click Load unpacked and pick the extension/ folder. It is not on the Chrome Web Store yet, so it installs unpacked.
2
Connect it once
Click the Cutaway icon in the toolbar and press Connect. One page opens, you sign in, and that is the whole setup — there is nothing to copy or paste. The icon shows the account it is connected to.
3
Hover a video and press the button
On Instagram, YouTube or anywhere else, move the cursor over a video and a small Cutaway button appears in its top-right corner. One click sends that video to your queue and opens a tab where you can watch it being taken apart. Splitting into cuts is free.
4
Open the cuts worth studying
The cuts appear as a strip. Locked ones show what they cost — 10 credits each. Opening one reads that cut and draws its lighting plot, staging plan, camera path, palette and reference sheets. It takes a few minutes; you can switch tabs or close the page and it keeps going.
5
Take the files with you
Every opened cut has a download that bundles what we drew for it — plots, sheets, palette and the prompts written from the measurements. Only things we made are in there.

Two things worth knowing

Instagram works differently from YouTube. On Instagram the extension collects the video in your own browser and uploads it, so nothing is fetched on our side. YouTube cannot be read that way, so we download it ourselves and cap the length.
Streaming services will not work. Netflix and friends are DRM-protected — the extension cannot read those frames, and neither can we.