FREE SCRIPT
Paste a website, or name a topic.
Get a short video about it.
Cutaway reads the site — or researches the topic — works out who it's for, writes a narration you can edit, then cuts it into an animated video, drawn in code one frame at a time. Thirty, sixty or ninety seconds. Add your own footage, or free archive film.
Starting
This takes a minute or two.
The script
Edit anything. Each line is one moment of the video; the card line plays over the end card. Under each line is the read — the same words as the voice will be given them, re-punctuated for speech, stress in CAPITALS only where it moves. Edit that too; the voice rules check it. The picture is cut to the read, up to 90 seconds; the price follows the length.
Sources
Footage or images optional
Your own product shots, screenshots or clips are worked in where they fit. So is free film from the Internet Archive — public-domain newsreels, ads, NASA and government footage — proposed for the script or found by you. Up to four in all.
Proposed for this script — untick any you don't want
Your video
What the voice was given
Your script, directed for the voice: the same words, re-punctuated for speech, stress in capitals only where it moves, a scene marker between lines.
On the desk
Videos made with Cutaway, as rendered.
How it's made
- ReadA website is opened in a real browser: Claude gets the text, the calls to action, the colours and a screenshot, and writes down the brand, the product and its ideal customer. A topic gets the same profile — who it is for and what it teaches.
- WriteThe script comes first: the hook, the body, the close, to the length you chose. A story or a topic is researched on the web, its sources cited, and free archive film that shows a line is proposed.
- DirectEach line is re-punctuated for speech and marked for stress before you see it, so you edit the read as well as the words. Your edit is checked line by line against the voice rules before anything is sent to the voice.
- DrawClaude writes the animation as code — a pure function of time — and the sound as code too. It renders stills, looks at them, and fixes what doesn't read.
- RenderEvery frame is drawn and encoded at 1080×1920, 30 fps, with the score, a music bed and the voice mixed in.