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

FiveM records automatically once DOR is installed: launch the game and the AI takes care of capture. From the server queue screen to spawning into the city, through every hour you spend in character, until you close the client, everything lands in one video. Roleplay is unscripted, and the best scenes show up without warning, so recording the whole session is the safest way to never miss one. This guide shows you how to record FiveM with DOR, a free Windows app, then save, trim and share scenes like a police pursuit or a hospital bit with the rest of your server. If you want to know how the built in Rockstar Editor differs from DOR, see the Rockstar Editor recording guide.

• Keep an hours long RP shift in one video from server join to logout, without ever touching a record button.
• Save scenes you only recognize afterwards, like a bank heist getaway or the arrest at the end of a chase, as clips on the spot.
• Turn radio calls and in character dialogue into timeline text with AI Voice Notes and jump to a scene by searching one line.
• Combine the chase, the hospital RP scene and the gang hideout negotiation into tonight's server episode.
• Post trimmed scenes to your server Discord or group chat with a single dor.gg link.

Before you record FiveM: install and recording mode

FiveM is a multiplayer client that runs on top of the PC version of GTA V, so getting ready to record starts with a GTA V install that runs well on your machine. DOR is a free Windows app and never adds a watermark. FiveM uses full session recording, which means the video keeps running even if you hop between servers, until you close the game. RP nights tend to run long, so read recording long gameplay without stutter before your first marathon shift. The table below lists what is worth knowing before you record FiveM.

Record FiveM with DOR: step by step

1. 1Install DOR and leave it runningDownload and install DOR. Setup takes about a minute and costs nothing. After that, just leave DOR running. If you want your character's voice in the recording, check that the headset mic you normally use is plugged in.
2. 2Launch FiveM and join a serverOpen the FiveM client and connect to your usual server. Recording starts as soon as DOR detects the game, so the queue and loading screens are already captured. The moment your character first appears at the spawn point makes a handy marker for where this session begins.
3. 3Confirm the recording is runningOnce you spawn into the city, glance at the DOR app to confirm recording is in progress. If the game is not picked up, follow what to do when the recorder does not detect your game. From there, focus on your character, whether you are playing a mechanic with a difficult customer or sitting in a police briefing.
4. 4Save a clip right after a big sceneWhen a pursuit ends in an arrest or a scene has everyone breaking character, press the clip save shortcut right away. The last 30 seconds are stored as their own clip, so you will not have to scrub through hours of footage later.
5. 5Close the game and open My ClipsClock your character out and close FiveM. The full session video and every clip you saved appear together in My Clips in the DOR app. Even if you hopped between two or three servers, one launch and exit of the game stays together as one session.

Find your recordings

Your recordings live in My Clips in the DOR app, also called the library. Each launch and exit of FiveM becomes one session, and anything you grabbed with the clip save shortcut shows up as its own clip. To find a scene inside a long RP session, use landmarks: fast camera movement during a vehicle chase, a crowd of characters gathered in one spot, or the moment sirens start. Once you find it, set a start and an end point to keep just that part, then export it as 16:9, 9:16 or 1:1. RP scenes need context to land, so keep a few dozen seconds before the punchline instead of cutting straight to it. The full walkthrough is in how to trim game clips. Like the videos you want to keep for good, such as your character's first appearance or a server event. When space fills up, older videos you have not liked are cleared first, so your liked scenes stay put.

Save the moments you want to keep

Even though the whole session is recorded, saving the scenes you care about as clips on the spot keeps you from digging through hours of video later. 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 FiveM, good times to press it are right after a pursuit ends in an arrest or an escape, right after the heist crew gets out of the vault, right after an EMS bit at the hospital has everyone laughing, and right after a highway jump stunt lands. Long talking scenes like a negotiation or an interrogation fit better at 60 seconds so the opening line is included, while a single stunt is fine at 15. Lengths and shortcut settings are covered in saving the last few seconds instantly.

Find what was said with AI Voice Notes

Half of what makes roleplay fun is what people say. Lines like '10 80 in progress, need backup', 'How many cops are outside the bank' and 'Get EMS here, he's down' fly back and forth all night. DOR records game audio and your mic together, and AI Voice Notes writes that dialogue onto the recording timeline as text. When you want to rewatch the moment someone yelled 'Clip that, the acting was insane', search for that line in the timeline text and select it to jump straight to the scene. In a three hour session, one line of dialogue works like a bookmark. If your server plans heists over a separate Discord call, see recording Discord call audio to capture that voice chat too.

Build a montage with AI Highlight

When your shift is over, turn your saved clips into a server episode. In the library, check the bank heist getaway, the arrest at the end of the chase, the hospital RP scene, the gang hideout negotiation and the line that broke the server, then select AI Highlight. DOR joins them into a single montage of what happened tonight. If you run an RP channel and cut every session like an episode, this takes care of the first rough assembly. To set the order yourself so the story flows, see how to merge game clips.

Edit in DOR Studio

DOR Studio opens in your browser with nothing to install, so you can cut a long session without ever opening the in game replay editor. Add character names and roles as text, lay down background music and you have a server recap. Try a punch zoom on the arrest, a shake zoom on a crash and a glitch transition between scenes. For TikTok or Shorts, build the scene in 9:16 and keep your character's face near the center of the frame. 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 scenes as dor.gg links. Whoever opens the link plays the video right in the browser without installing anything, which makes it perfect evidence for your server Discord's clips channel. If other players appear in the scene, check your server rules and show them the link first before posting it more widely. Cut out any out of character talk or personal details before you send it. Tips for pulling only the funny moments out of long RP sessions are in sharing FiveM roleplay videos.

FiveM recommended settings and troubleshooting

FiveM uses GTA V itself, so it puts a heavy load on your GPU. Start with the default 1080p at 30fps and only move up to 60fps if your graphics card has room to spare. If the game struggles during a downtown pursuit with traffic everywhere, switch to the 720p/30fps mode to cut the load. Fullscreen, windowed and borderless windows all record, so keep whatever display mode you already use. DOR uses GPU hardware encoding, so its effect on your in game frame rate is small. Server or client side frame drops are a separate issue from recording: to check the game first, read FiveM FPS boost and best settings, and if frames only drop when recording is on, see fixing FPS drops while recording. DOR has no cheat features and never touches your game files or play data.