How to Record a Gameplay Clip on PS4
If you’re about to attempt something cool, or you want to illustrate something specific, then you can initiate a recording at any time.
How to Record Retroactively on a PS4
There’s no way to know when something cool or weird will happen when you’re playing, so there’s a good chance that you won’t be recording. When that happens, you can take advantage of the PS4’s retroactive recording feature.
How to Edit and Share Clips on PS4
Once you’ve recorded a clip on your PS4, you may want to share it. Sony gives you an option to upload your clips to a few different social media sites, like Twitter and YouTube, and you can also trim your clips down before uploading if you like.
How to Change the Default Recording Length
By default, the PS4 captures 15-minute video clips. If you’re running out of space on your PS4 drive, you can set the default clip time to a shorter interval, down to a minimum of five minutes. Alternately, you can make the default time up to 60 minutes if you want massive clips and don’t want to miss anything. That takes a lot of hard drive space, but it is an option if you want it.
How Does Recording Gameplay Work on PS4?
Traditionally, recording gameplay has required either a capture card in a computer or a dedicated video capture hardware device. It was an expensive and complicated proposition that you don’t have to worry about if you own a PS4. Your PS4 has everything you need to record, edit, and share gameplay built right in, and it even has a few different options for recording. If you’re interested in recording your PS4 gameplay, you have these two basic options: Regular recording: You actively start recording and capture a predetermined amount of video, at which point it stops. You can also choose to stop recording at any time. This mode is useful if you’re trying to capture a specific thing. Retroactive recording: Your PS4 is constantly recording gameplay whenever you’re in-game. At any time, you can choose to save the last 15 minutes of that gameplay. This mode is useful if something cool or weird happened and you weren’t already recording. Otherwise, the PS4 automatically overwrites each clip as a new one starts to conserve storage space.
