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Clips

The Clips tab is a feed of short, interesting moments from your cameras, so you can review what happened without scrubbing through hours of timeline. Each entry is a thumbnail you can click to watch a short overview of the moment.

A clip is deliberately a brief overview of an event, not the whole thing. By default each one renders up to 30 seconds (admin-configurable down to 10), and there's a hard 30-second ceiling baked in, so a long event is trimmed to that overview rather than played end to end. A short event keeps its natural length, and an event that's still in progress shows an "ongoing" badge. When a clip is trimmed, the player tells you the full event length and offers to open it on the timeline; that's where you watch the whole thing.

Where clips come from​

Crumb pulls clips from two places, automatically, and shows them in one list:

  • Motion: whenever a camera saw movement, Crumb turns those stretches of its own recorded footage into clips. This works on any camera Crumb records, with no extra setup.
  • Detections: if you've connected a detector like Frigate (or turned on Crumb's own plate reader), its detections show up as clips too, labelled with what was detected.

You don't choose a source per clip; they're merged into a single feed, newest first, so "show me what happened" is one place to look.

Reviewing a clip​

Click a clip to play it. From there you can jump straight to that moment on the full timeline if you want the surrounding context, or move to the next clip to keep scanning. A clip you want to keep can be bookmarked so it's protected from automatic cleanup, or exported to save or share.

Filtering the feed​

The feed can be narrowed to a single camera, a time range, or a type, All, Detections, or Motion, so a question like "did anyone come to the front door this afternoon" turns into a short, scannable list instead of a full evening of footage.