How to Record No Man's Sky with DOR: Official Guide (2026)

No Man's Sky records automatically once DOR is installed: launch the game and the AI takes it from there. The universe is procedurally generated, so almost nobody else will ever see the planet you just found, which makes video the clearest way to show off a view or a creature. Launching out of your freighter's hangar, streaking across space on pulse drive and punching through the clouds for a first landing all stay on record without a single press of a record button. This guide covers recording No Man's Sky in order: getting ready, checking that recording is running, saving exploration moments, finding scenes in a recording with no loading screens, building a travelogue and sending it to friends.

• Keep your whole trip in one video, from takeoff to quitting the game, however many planets you visit.
• Save an atmospheric entry landing, a pirate ship kill or a giant creature sighting as separate clips.
• Use AI Voice Notes to find a reaction like 'the sky on this planet is unreal' and jump back to that world even after you forget the coordinates.
• Join a season of Expedition clips into a galactic travelogue with AI Highlight.
• Show off a finished planet base or a rare world in your Discord server with a dor.gg link.

Before you record No Man's Sky: install and recording mode

No Man's Sky is GPU heavy, so check your PC and your free drive space before you start recording. DOR is a free Windows app and never puts a watermark on your videos. The game uses full session recording, which means space flight, planet exploration and base building all stay in one video until you close the game. Exploration sessions tend to run for hours and recordings grow with them, so read reducing game recording file size ahead of time. The table below lists what to know before you record No Man's Sky.

Record No Man's Sky with DOR: step by step

1. 1Install DORDownload DOR, install it and leave it running. It is free, so there is no payment step, and there is nothing else to prepare whenever you launch No Man's Sky. Set it up before a new Expedition starts and your first planet is on record.
2. 2Launch No Man's SkyStart No Man's Sky from Steam. Recording begins as soon as DOR detects the game, so the moment you load your save and settle into the cockpit is already captured. Whether you set off from your freighter hangar or a planet base, recording is running.
3. 3Check recording before takeoffBefore your first takeoff, open the DOR app once and confirm the 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, fly on pulse drive or drive an exocraft across the surface without thinking about it.
4. 4Clip first landings and fightsWhen you touch down on a world you have never seen or shoot down a pirate ship, press the clip save shortcut right afterwards. The last stretch is stored as a separate clip, so you never have to search a multi hour recording for that planet again.
5. 5End the trip and open My ClipsWhen you finish exploring for the day and close the game, the full session video and every clip you saved appear together in My Clips in the DOR app. However many star systems you crossed, they sit in one session, so you always know which day's journey it was.

Find your recordings

Open your recordings from My Clips in the DOR app, also called the library. Each time you open and close No Man's Sky becomes one session, and anything you grabbed with the clip save shortcut shows up as its own clip. Because the game flows from space to planet surfaces with no loading screens, the boundaries between scenes are blurry. Use the moments where the look of the screen changes sharply as landmarks instead: atmospheric entry, landing and arriving from a warp. Once you find the scene, set a start and an end to trim it, then export as 16:9, 9:16 or 1:1. A good rule is to keep scenery long and fights short, and the full walkthrough is in how to trim game clips. Like the videos you want to keep for good, such as a tour of a finished base. When space fills up, older videos you have not liked are cleared first, so liked travel logs stay put.

Save the moments you want to keep

Even with the whole journey recorded, clipping the scenes you will rewatch on the spot makes them much easier to find. Press the clip save shortcut and the last stretch of play is saved as a clip. The default length is 30 seconds, and you can choose 15, 30, 45 or 60 seconds in settings. Good times to press it in No Man's Sky are right after you break through the atmosphere and land, right after a pirate ship goes down, right after your first encounter with a giant creature, and right after you shake off a Sentinel chase and make it back to your ship. An atmospheric entry through to landing easily takes longer than 30 seconds, so set 45 or 60 and the descent through the clouds stays in one piece. To change the shortcut, see saving the last few seconds instantly.

Find what was said with AI Voice Notes

Exploring in multiplayer means a running commentary: 'the sky on this planet is unreal', 'Sentinels, run for the ship', 'are these the right portal glyphs?'. DOR records game audio and your microphone together, and AI Voice Notes writes that conversation onto the recording timeline as text. You may forget a planet's coordinates, but the moment you said 'this creature is so weird' is easy to find: search the timeline text and select the line to jump straight to the scene. Plans like 'buying a freighter after this Expedition' are on record too, which helps when you set your next goal. To set up your mic input, see recording games with mic audio.

Build a montage with AI Highlight

A season of Expedition footage becomes one travel film with AI Highlight. In the library, check your atmospheric entry landing, the pirate ship you shot down, the launch from your freighter, the giant creature sighting, the Sentinel escape and the reveal of your finished planet base, then select AI Highlight. DOR joins the checked moments into a single video. Make one from first landings only and you get a travelogue that shows your whole crossing of the galaxy at a glance. To arrange clips by star system yourself, see how to merge game clips.

Edit in DOR Studio

DOR Studio opens in your browser with nothing to install. Half of a scenery video is the soundtrack, so string your exploration clips together, add a calm track and the planet names as text, and the travelogue mood comes through. Use a glitch transition on warp arrivals and a shake zoom when a pirate ship explodes to create contrast. Export longer travelogues in 16:9 and single sky shot Shorts in 9:16. To keep a planet's horizon looking natural in a vertical frame, read recording games for vertical Shorts. When you are done, download the result as 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 it right in their browser without installing anything, so you can send a tour of the base you built together to your exploring partner, and a planet with an unusual sky to a friend who has never played. Post the pirate ship kill in the Discord server where your Expedition crew gathers. Tips on choosing planet scenes to send are in sharing No Man's Sky planet videos, and posting to Discord is covered in sharing clips on Discord.

No Man's Sky recommended settings and troubleshooting

No Man's Sky is GPU heavy, so a PC at or above the recommended spec keeps both your in game frame rate and the recording steady. The default 1080p at 30fps already captures planet scenery crisply, and 60fps is the pick for smoother warps and space combat. On a tighter PC, the lighter 720p/30fps mode keeps the load down. Fullscreen, windowed and borderless windows all record, so leave the game's settings alone. DOR uses GPU hardware encoding, so its effect on your frame rate while exploring is small. It has no cheat features and never touches your game files or play data. If frames drop while recording, see fixing FPS drops while recording, and for sessions that run for hours, see recording long gameplay without stutter.