How does the Nintendo Switch video saving work?
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Whenever the Nintendo Switch is playing a game, the screen is on, and is not in the home menu, it’s perpetually recording video, deleting video that is more than 30 seconds old or so. When you hold down the photo button (instead of just pressing it, which takes a single photo), it marks the most recent 30 seconds of video and more permanently saves it. Turning off the screen or going into the home menu cancels the recording, so if you, say, resume a game from the home menu, then play for 12 seconds before saving a video, it’ll save just the 12 seconds after resuming the game.
You then go into your saved pictures section of the Switch to find your file. From there, you can play it, trim it in 1 second chunks by designating starting and ending points (which creates a new separate video file), save one of the frames as a separate photo, or upload it to a sharing site that you’ve linked accounts with your switch. I usually use a private-only Twitter account to upload my videos, from which I use a 3rd-party site to download the video from Twitter onto my computer.
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