SKILL / Media
Plans: Pro & AgencyVideo and Transcript Intelligence
Find relevant public videos and examine available transcripts with publication context and supporting timestamps.
Read the step-by-step user guideVideo and Transcript Intelligence answers a question that text search alone cannot: what has been said about a subject, or by a subject, in publicly posted video? In Nexus the investigator receives a set of relevant public videos together with the transcript passages that matter, each tied to a timestamp range and to the channel and publication date of the video. A quotation is never left floating; it can be checked at the exact moment it was spoken.
What you get
Relevant public videos with cited transcript passages, timestamps and channel context for each finding.
Using Video and Transcript Intelligence in an investigation
The Skill is built for verification work. A statement attributed to an executive, a claim made in a promotional video or a conference talk that mentions a company can all be located and quoted with their surrounding context. Where a transcript is unavailable, or where it is unclear who is speaking, the finding says so explicitly instead of guessing. Videos that were found but could not be examined are listed as open items, so the investigator knows what remains unchecked.
In a Nexus case, each cited passage becomes an evidence record with its source link and timestamp preserved, so a reviewer can replay the moment and confirm the wording. Speakers, channels and organizations that appear can be added to the case graph, and quoted material can flow into a BLUF Situation Brief or a PDF report alongside written sources gathered through Deep Public Research or News and Adverse-Media Timeline.
Example objectives
Run the Skill directly, or describe the objective in your own words — these are the kinds of questions it is built to answer.
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“Find public videos in which the founder discusses the product recall, and quote the relevant passages with timestamps.”
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“Which channels have published interviews with this person in the last two years?”
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“Does any public talk mention the partnership between these two companies?”
How Video and Transcript Intelligence fits the investigation
A Skill is one move inside a case. The findings stay in the case file, where the evidence behind them can be checked, graphed and reported.
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Choose or describe
Pick the Skill from the Skill Library, or describe the objective in your own words and let Nexus work out which Skills fit the question.
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Review the evidence
Open the evidence record behind any finding and read the original public source before you rely on what it says.
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Add to the case graph
Promote the people, organizations and identifiers you accept into the case relationship graph, straight from their evidence records.
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Brief and report
Turn the case into a BLUF situation brief and, on Pro and Agency, into a structured PDF report with chain of custody.
Evidence before conclusions
What Video and Transcript Intelligence cannot establish
Nexus keeps supported findings, possible matches, contradictions and information gaps apart instead of blending them into one narrative. These are the boundaries Video and Transcript Intelligence states up front.
- Not every public video has a usable transcript, and an available transcript may contain recognition errors that change the meaning of a passage.
- Video and Transcript Intelligence cannot confirm who is speaking when the video does not identify the speaker, and it does not treat a quoted statement as proof that the statement is true.
- Finding no relevant videos does not mean the subject has never appeared on video.
Best for
Teams that reach for Video and Transcript Intelligence most often.
Related OSINT concepts
The vocabulary this Skill works in, defined in the glossary.
Related Skills
Skills investigators commonly run next, in the same case.
Frequently asked questions
What does Video and Transcript Intelligence return for each video?
For each relevant public video, Video and Transcript Intelligence returns the video’s title, channel and publication date, a link to the video itself, and the transcript passages that bear on the investigator’s question, each with the timestamp range where the words are spoken. The passages are stored as evidence in the Nexus case, so a reviewer can replay the exact moment and confirm the quotation.
What happens when a video has no transcript?
Video and Transcript Intelligence lists the video with its publication context and records that no transcript was available, rather than inventing or summarizing content it could not read. The investigator can still open the video directly. Nexus treats an unavailable transcript as an explicit information gap, so the final brief shows which videos were examined and which remain open.
Can Video and Transcript Intelligence verify who is speaking?
Only when the video or its context identifies the speaker. When a transcript does not make clear who said a passage, Video and Transcript Intelligence marks the speaker as unresolved rather than attributing the words to the subject. A quoted statement is also reported as something that was said, not as something that is true; establishing the facts behind it is a separate step for the investigator.
Which Nexus plan includes Video and Transcript Intelligence?
Video and Transcript Intelligence is included in the Skill Library on the Pro and Agency plans. Pro includes 43 of the 47 investigative Skills and Agency includes all 47. Investigations on every plan use credits, and upgrading is done from within Nexus.