The video is stored in the cloud, but you don't know how long they will be available, as older videos are deleted when storage space is needed. This means that you need to export video that you want to keep. Here is the BIG problem - exported video does not have any timestamps on it at all. The nest app had timestamps on exported video, but the Home App is what Google support advises to use, and they don't warn you about this feature loss.
The competing products such as Ring, eufy etc. all have timestamps on exported video.
Google support don't care about this, and their legal team says tough luck so sad for you, we never said it has timestamps. Don't recommend any of the Nest cameras as a "security" camera as per their product spiel, its purely a video camera that records into the cloud for an undetermined length of time. If you miss an incident, and it gets overwritten, you're stuffed. Also needs monthly subscriptions for the smart features.
