FOR OSINT & RESEARCH TEAMS

Investigate Videos, Find the Source

Trace where videos came from, find related and reposted content, and gather evidence to support OSINT investigations across the open web.

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12+ sources searched at once
4s shortest clip we can match
Full export of every hit and date
PROVENANCE TRAIL ordered oldest first
Regional forum post earliest known upload
ORIGIN
Telegram channel mirror 2 hours later
MIRROR
X repost, no context 9 hours later
MIRROR
YouTube compilation 3 days later, recut
RECUT
News aggregator 5 days later, miscaptioned
ALTERED
Each hit keeps its capture date, so the chain holds up in a write-up.
What goes wrong today

The hard part is not finding a copy. It is finding the first one.

DEAD ENDS Reverse image search fails on video

One frame is not enough. Recuts, crops and re-encodes break the match, and you are left guessing.

Hit rate Low
HOURS Manual frame checking eats a day

Pulling stills, searching each one, chasing mirrors across platforms — for a single clip.

Per clip 4–8 hrs
CONFIDENCE No defensible timeline

Without capture dates on every hit, the provenance claim in your report is just an assertion.

Citable proof None
How Revideo helps

A date-ordered trail, not a pile of links.

Whole-video matchingFrames and audio, so recuts and re-encodes still resolve.
Earliest upload flaggedEvery hit carries its posting and capture date.
Short excerpts matchedDown to four seconds — enough for a compilation clip.
Exportable recordEvery URL, date and frame pair, ready to cite.
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One clip, tracedUnattributed protest footage REAL WORKFLOW
Clip submitted 38-second excerpt, no metadata, unknown source.
minute 1
31 copies returned Ordered by date across 9 platforms.
minute 1
Earliest upload identified A regional forum post, 11 days before the viral version.
minute 2
Record exported Every URL, date and matching frame pair, in one file.
minute 4
Case study

A researcher traced a viral clip to a post 11 days earlier.

The version everyone was citing had been recut and stripped of context. Matching frames and audio surfaced 31 copies in date order — the earliest sat on a regional forum nobody had checked.

Dmitri Kovach✓ OSINT researcher
31 copies found in date order
11 days earlier than the cited version
4 min from clip to exported record

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