Bookmarks

A bookmark marks a specific moment on a camera's timeline for later reference, separate from the general playback and export tools.

Protected retention

When you create a bookmark you can protect the footage around that moment from automatic deletion. Protection is set at creation time: you choose how many days to keep it (1 to 30) and, optionally, how much footage on each side of the moment to cover (by default 60 seconds before and 300 seconds after, up to an hour each way). Crumb then holds that window against every automatic deletion path, the normal per-tier retention sweep, size caps, and the absolute maximum retention cap alike, for as long as the protection lasts. It is the one override that outranks every other retention setting, because a human decision to keep something specific should win over a general policy.

Protection is deliberately time-boxed, not permanent. It expires on its own once the days you set have passed, and the footage then rejoins normal retention accounting. There is no "unpin" step and no way to protect footage forever, that ceiling of 30 days is on purpose, so a pile of protected bookmarks can never quietly erode the disk savings a retention policy is meant to provide. If you need footage kept beyond its protection window, export it before the window ends. Editing a bookmark only changes its note; deleting the bookmark is the way to end protection early.