There are two ways to create a clip: on your phone or on your computer. Nest automatically saves all your footage up in the cloud, but you can't take any of it unless you create a clip. Now, to actually save some footage you're going to have to make some clips. Nest Aware not only gets you video history, but it gives you continuous video recording, activity zones, intelligent alerts and the ability to create clips, which is important. The good news there is that Nest Aware has recently been simplified and the new plans are cheaper than ever. The first thing you need to know is that you're probably going to need a Nest Aware subscription. You never know when the cloud could evaporate and lose all your footage, and it's always safe to have a physical backup.īut how, exactly, can you do that? Well, there are a couple of ways. But sometimes you don't want to create or share a clip, you want to save them for your own records. Nest has a fairly robust set of options for creating and sharing video clips of footage from your home security camera. Footage from smart security cameras can obviously be helpful in the case of an incident like (God forbid) a burglary, but you need to know how to get hold of that footage