How to Record Elsword with DOR: Official Guide (2026)

Elsword records automatically once DOR is installed: launch the game and the AI handles it. There is no record key to remember and no in game recording option to set up. When Elsword starts, DOR detects it and keeps one continuous video from the moment you walk into town through dungeons and PvP, and the recording stops when you close the game. Elsword is a side scrolling action RPG full of moments that are over in seconds, like an air combo that keeps a mob juggled or an Awakening skill cut in, so pulling those out of a long recording quickly is what matters. This guide walks through installing DOR, saving moments, finding party dungeon chatter, making combo videos, sharing a link, and low spec settings and fixes.

• Keep a whole Elsword session in one video as you move from town to dungeon and from dungeon to PvP.
• Save an air combo that kept monsters juggled to the end with the clip save shortcut right after you finish it.
• Use AI Voice Notes to find the call "Boss is down, awaken now" and retrace your party's burst timing.
• Combine an Awakening cut in, a Secret Dungeon boss kill and a Henir's Time and Space clear into a combo video for your main.
• Turn a PvP comeback into a 9:16 short and send it to your guild Discord with a dor.gg link.

Before you record Elsword: install and recording mode

Elsword is fairly light, so recording runs smoothly even at minimum spec. Launch Elsword on your Windows PC and DOR detects it and starts recording automatically. DOR is a free Windows app and never puts a watermark on your videos, so nothing covers the flashy Awakening effects. It uses full session recording: the file is not split after each dungeon run, and everything, including time spent in town, stays in one video until you close the game. The loading screen as you enter a dungeon and the results screen when you finish become handy landmarks inside that recording. If you play on a laptop or an older desktop, also read recording games on a low end PC. The table below lists what to check before your first recording.

Record Elsword with DOR: step by step

1. 1Install DORDownload and install DOR. It takes about a minute and is free. Leave DOR running once it is installed. There is no need to start recording for each dungeon, so this step is all you need.
2. 2Launch ElswordStart Elsword and pick your character. DOR begins recording as soon as it detects the game, so it is normal for the recording to start as you walk into town.
3. 3Check that recording is runningBefore entering a dungeon, open the DOR app once while you are in town and confirm recording is in progress. If the game is not picked up, follow what to do when the recorder does not detect your game. After that, the recording carries on through as many dungeons and PvP matches as you play.
4. 4Save the clip right after the comboWhen you keep a monster juggled through a full air combo, or the boss goes down and you awaken for a skill cut in, press the clip save shortcut right after. The last 30 seconds are saved as a separate clip.
5. 5Close the game and open My ClipsAfter your last dungeon results screen, close the game. The full session video and every clip you saved appear together in My Clips in the DOR app. PvP losses are kept too, so you can rewatch them.

Find your recordings

Your Elsword recordings collect in My Clips in the DOR app, also called the library. Each time you open and close the game becomes one session, and moments you saved during play show up as separate clips. To find a single dungeon run inside a long session, use the loading screen when you enter and the results screen when you finish as dividers. Skim quickly through time spent gearing up in town, and treat each PvP match as running from the match entry screen to the results. Set a start and an end point to trim the part you need, then export as 16:9, 9:16 or 1:1. Characters move across the full width of the screen in Elsword, so 16:9 is the best default. Trimming tips are in how to trim game clips. Like the videos you want to keep, such as your first Henir's Time and Space clear. When space fills up, older videos you have not liked are cleared first, so liked ones stay put.

Save the moments you want to keep

Even with the whole session recorded, short highlights like combos are much easier to find if you save them as clips on the spot. Press the clip save shortcut and the last stretch of gameplay is saved as a clip. The default length is 30 seconds, and you can choose 15, 30, 45 or 60 seconds in settings. In Elsword, good times to press it are right after you finish an air juggle combo, right after an Awakening skill cut in plays, right after a Secret Dungeon boss falls, and right after a PvP comeback from almost no health. An Awakening cut in fits in 15 seconds, but a party burst window or the final stretch of Henir's Time and Space flows better at 60 seconds. To pick the right length for each kind of moment, see saving the last few seconds instantly.

Find what was said with AI Voice Notes

Running dungeons as a party means calls to line up your burst. Lines like "Boss is down, awaken now", "Aisha, meteor's lined up", "One more PvP match then bed" and "How many hits was that air combo?" go back and forth. DOR records game audio, skill cut in sounds included, together with your microphone, and AI Voice Notes writes what your party said onto the recording timeline as text. To check whether the awaken call came too late or too early, search the timeline text for "awaken" and select it to jump straight to that scene. If your party talks over a Discord voice channel, check your devices with recording Discord call audio.

Build a montage with AI Highlight

To bundle your main's best plays into a combo video, use AI Highlight. In the library, check the air juggle combo, the Awakening cut in, the Secret Dungeon boss, the Henir's Time and Space clear and the PvP comeback, then select AI Highlight. DOR joins them into one video. Gather the best plays from each class path as you advance and you get a record of your character's growth; put the party burst window clip at the end for a satisfying finish. If you would rather set the clip order yourself, see how to merge game clips.

Edit in DOR Studio

DOR Studio opens in your browser with nothing to install. Add a punch zoom as the skill cut in pops, put the combo hit count on screen as text and lay a background track under it, and you have a short form combo video. Try a shake zoom on the final hit that slams a monster into the ground and a glitch transition between a dungeon and PvP. Export skill animations your character performs in one spot as 9:16 vertical clips, and dungeon combos that use the full screen in 16:9. Framing tips for vertical video are in recording games for vertical Shorts. When you are done, download an mp4 or share it as a link straight away.

Share with a dor.gg link

Send trimmed moments as dor.gg links. Whoever opens the link plays the video right in the browser without installing anything, so pasting a long combo into your guild Discord plays it instantly. Send a PvP comeback to a friend leveling the same class path and compare combo routes. Tips on cutting just the air combos and PvP comebacks from a side scrolling recording are in sharing Elsword combo videos, and posting to Discord is covered in sharing clips on Discord.

Elsword recommended settings and troubleshooting

Elsword is fairly light, so the default 1080p at 30fps already captures characters and effects clearly. If you want fast air combos and PvP movement to look smoother, switch to 60fps, and if you run dungeons for hours on a laptop, the 720p/30fps mode keeps the load low. Fullscreen, windowed and borderless all record, so leave the game's display settings as they are. DOR uses GPU hardware encoding, so its effect on your frame rate is small. If the stutter only happens while recording, start with fixing FPS drops while recording. Where game capture is blocked, DOR switches to monitor capture, and DOR has no cheat features and never touches your game files or play data.