Everything your footage needs
Seven things that separate Clipnest from your camera vendor’s cloud and from rolling your own NVR.
Wide + zoom, one event
Reolink TrackMix, Plus 2 and Argus auto-merge wide-angle and telephoto recordings into a single event. No flipping between cameras, no duplicated clips — just one timeline entry with both angles.
Click and watch — no buffer
Video starts playing immediately. Scrub to any moment without waiting for the whole file to download. Smooth from the first click — none of the laggy scrubbing the vendor cloud forces on you.
All your cameras on one timeline
A horizontal ribbon per camera lets you scrub through a whole day at a glance. Click any block to jump straight into the clip — no scrolling through hundreds of thumbnails.
Encrypted on disk
Every recording is encrypted before it hits storage, with a unique key per user. Stored in the EU. If you want the deep dive on how the keys work, the /security page lays it out honestly.
No admin panel for your footage
Admin accounts manage users and storage quotas — but every endpoint that would reveal footage is hard-blocked at the API layer. Enforced in code, not just on trust.
On the web and in your pocket
Clipnest on iOS and Android stays in sync with the web in real time. Same timeline, same events, sized for your thumb. Watch on the couch, swipe on the bus.
Ready for your AI assistant
Plug Claude, ChatGPT or any MCP-aware AI agent straight into your footage. Ask in plain English — get events, clips and metadata back. OAuth-based access with scoped permissions you control, so the agent only sees what you let it see.
Built and tested daily on Reolink
TrackMix LTE · Argus 3 Pro · Plus 2 · RLC-823A · RLC-1224A — these are the models that get the first-class treatment.
Other FTP-compatible cameras (Hikvision, Dahua and friends) work in experimental mode. Reolink is where the polish lives.