You've probably hit an ace in Valorant only to be left wishing you had it on video. The good moments always come without warning, and you can't have your finger on the record button every single time. In this guide we'll cover how to keep your best Valorant moments as clips, hands-free.
Valorant has replays, so why do you need recording?
First, let's clear up a common misconception. Valorant officially added a replay system in its September 2025 patch. You can rewatch an entire match in Unrated, Competitive, Swiftplay, and Premier. So "Valorant doesn't have replays" is now outdated info.
The problem is retention. Replays disappear from your list once a certain period passes or a patch rolls over. In other words, replays are for "briefly rewatching," not a way to hold onto an ace game forever. If you want to keep it permanently as a clip or Short, you ultimately have to record that moment as an mp4 video.
Auto-saving Valorant clips with DOR
Install DOR and launch Valorant, and from there you have nothing else to do. Just play the game like you normally would. DOR detects decisive moments like kills, multi-kills, aces, and clutches in real time and automatically trims the surrounding segments into clips.
- Aces, solo 5-kill rounds saved as automatic clips
- Clutches, detecting outnumbered comebacks like 1v3 and 1v5
- Multi-kills, auto-highlighting triple kills and above
- Operator flicks, capturing one-shot sniper highlights
Round-by-round recording and manual hotkeys
You can also cover moments auto-detection might miss. Turn on round-by-round recording to keep a needed round in full, and for moments that don't get caught automatically, fakes, movement, team calls, just save a clip yourself with a single hotkey. Use auto and manual together and you effectively miss nothing.
Recording lag-free at high refresh in competitive
A lot of Valorant players run competitive at high refresh rates like 144Hz or 240Hz. If recording drops your frames, you're losing more than you gain. DOR uses NVIDIA NVENC hardware encoding by default, so the video encoding load is handled by a dedicated graphics-card chip rather than the CPU. As a result it has almost no impact on your competitive frames.
Add to that low-overhead background capture, which doesn't put a heavy overlay over your game screen. You'll find recommended settings and real user clips on the Valorant recording page, and fellow tactical shooters like Counter-Strike and Apex Legends get auto-clipped the same way.
Making different-angle clips from replay footage
The real use for replays is changing the camera angle. Rewatching an ace you pulled off from the enemy's view or a free camera makes for a much better shot. Play a Valorant replay and record that screen with DOR, and you can create clips from angles your original first-person view never captured. The key is recording it in advance, before the retention period passes.
Editing your saved clips into Shorts
Once you've collected your clips, the last step is editing. Clips in your DOR library can be trimmed right in the free video editor, with captions and effects added, and turned into 9:16 vertical videos. Since it edits in your browser with no separate program to install, you can take an ace moment straight to YouTube Shorts, TikTok, and Reels.
- Pick out just your ace and clutch clips from the library
- Trim to the needed segment and fit it to 9:16 vertical
- Add captions and effects and upload to Shorts and TikTok
