Reference Video Analysis

Reference Video Analysis

Treat the reference as a complete communication system, not a bag of quotable lines. The result must let an unseen reader understand what the video says, why the audience keeps watching, and which mechanisms can transfer into an original work.

Boundary

• Accept a video URL, transcript, SRT/VTT/JSON subtitle file, notes, or an archived source package.
• For a URL, use the current Mode's installed retrieval/transcription route first. Do not add another downloader, login store, or discovery router.
• Analyze only the supplied source. Do not crawl the creator's other work unless the user asks.
• Keep distinctive phrases, identity, personal anecdotes, and factual claims source-owned. Transfer mechanisms, not a sentence-replacement template.

Prepare complete reading context

When a transcript or subtitle file exists, run:

python scripts/prepare_video_analysis.py transcript.srt \
  --title "Reference title" \
  --source-url "https://example.com/video" \
  --output ./analysis-input.json

The prepared input preserves timestamps, every readable sentence, and each segment's previous/next context. Use it as a coverage ledger, not as the final report. If no transcript can be obtained, state the visual/audio evidence actually available and lower the confidence instead of filling gaps from memory.

Analyze for decisions

Cover the following questions at a depth proportional to the source. Combine related findings when that reads better; do not force ceremonial headings.

• Audience promise — who should care, what problem or tension opens, and what payoff is promised.
• Title and opening — whether the title promise is fulfilled and what the first useful move does.
• Narrative and peaks — setup, turns, demonstrations, strongest moments, payoff, and action in actual source order.
• Sentence roles in context — for decisive or representative sentences, show the preceding setup, the sentence's role, and its consequence. For a short reference, account for every sentence; for a long reference, cover every block and all decisive lines.
• Pacing and expression efficiency — acceleration, pauses, repetition, overload, removable wording, and places where examples restore clarity.
• Voice and synthetic patterns — rhetoric, sentence rhythm, tone, formulaic transitions, mechanical summary habits, and why they help or hurt.
• Evidence and material inventory — demonstrations, examples, screenshots, data, authority, assertion, and claims that require independent verification.
• Cognitive gap — assumed prior knowledge, unexplained concepts, and missing bridges.
• Creation workflow — infer a usable research, drafting, visual, recording, and revision sequence for an original piece.
• Transferable mechanisms — rank the few most valuable choices and express a generalized structure that does not preserve source wording or identity.

Specific improvement proposals must name the affected timestamp/segment, the problem, the change, and the tradeoff. Never criticize an isolated line or image without its background and what follows.

Output

Return one self-contained analysis containing:

• audience promise and title/opening diagnosis;
• timestamped or anchored narrative map;
• contextual close reading with enough sentence-role coverage for the source length;
• pacing, voice, efficiency, cognitive-load, evidence, and material findings;
• practical original-creation workflow;
• prioritized transferable mechanisms, improvement options, and a source-ownership boundary.

完成标准

• A reader who has not seen the video can easily retell what it is, why it matters, and how it unfolds.
• Every highlighted sentence, visual, or turn includes preceding context and consequence.
• Short sources have complete sentence coverage; long sources have complete block coverage and no unexplained skipped turn.
• The report separates source facts and identity from reusable communication mechanisms.
• The proposed creation workflow and generalized structure help make an original work rather than imitate wording.
• No new retrieval router, review Skill, or fixed linear workflow was introduced.