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

Phasmophobia records automatically once DOR is installed: launch the game and the AI handles the rest. Recording is already running while you pack gear in the lobby, and it carries on through every contract until you quit. The spirit box answering back or the few seconds after a hunt starts and you dive into a closet can never be repeated, so having the whole investigation on file is the only way to get them back. The in game video camera is gear for catching evidence like ghost orbs; DOR is different, saving your actual screen and voice chat as a video file. This guide covers recording Phasmophobia on PC in order: getting ready, checking recording, clipping hunts, finding screams in the recording, building a horror video and sharing links.

• Keep a whole investigation on video, from stepping out of the truck to naming the ghost and escaping.
• Save a hunt survived in a closet, the first spirit box answer or EMF 5 in the kitchen as separate clips.
• Use AI Voice Notes to find shouts like 'temps are dropping, it's going to hunt, hide' and jump straight there.
• Join evidence finds, hunt survivals and the moment a friend got grabbed into one horror video with AI Highlight.
• Send your friend's scream to Discord with a dor.gg link so they can relive it.

Before you record Phasmophobia: install and recording mode

Phasmophobia is a light co op horror game, so getting ready to record takes very little. DOR is a free Windows app and never puts a watermark on your videos. The game uses full session recording, which means it is not split by contract; the lobby, waiting in the truck and several investigations stay in one video until you close the game. Half of this game is your friends' voices, so the most important thing is making sure your mic is picked up. Check how to capture mic audio in recording games with mic audio before you start. The table below lists what to know for Phasmophobia.

Record Phasmophobia with DOR: step by step

1. 1Install DORDownload DOR, install it and leave it running. It is free, and how the app records as soon as a game launches is covered in DOR automatic game recording. Do it once before you book an investigation night with friends.
2. 2Launch PhasmophobiaStart Phasmophobia from Steam. When DOR detects the game, recording begins from the lobby screen, so picking your gear and your contract are already on record.
3. 3Check recording before the first investigationBefore you step out of the truck, open the DOR app once and confirm the recording is running and your mic input is picked up. After that, just grab your flashlight and EMF reader and head inside.
4. 4Clip the hunt you just survivedWhen the lights flicker, a hunt starts and you barely make it through hiding in a closet, press the clip save shortcut as you catch your breath. Everything from just before the hunt to those silent seconds in hiding is stored as a separate clip.
5. 5Quit and open My ClipsWhen you finish your contracts for the night and close the game, the full session video and every clip you saved appear together in My Clips in the DOR app. A night where you named the ghost and escaped to the truck and a night where everyone got caught are kept the same way.

Find your recordings

Open your recordings from My Clips in the DOR app, also called the library. Each time you open and close Phasmophobia becomes one session, and anything you grabbed with the clip save shortcut shows up as its own clip. To find a hunt in a long session of back to back investigations, look for the flickering screen and the spots where everyone's voices spike at once. Remembering which contract it was and where it happened narrows it down quickly. A hunt looks scarier in the silent seconds after you hide than in the running, so leave plenty of time after that point when you trim, then export as 16:9, 9:16 or 1:1. Trimming tips are in how to trim game clips. Like the videos you want to keep for good, such as the first time you named the ghost correctly. When space fills up, older videos you have not liked are cleared first, so liked investigations stay put.

Save the moments you want to keep

Even with the whole investigation recorded, clipping a scream on the spot means you never have to go looking for it. 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 Phasmophobia are right after the spirit box gives its first answer, right after the EMF reader hits 5 in the kitchen, right after you survive a hunt in a closet, and right after a friend left alone in the basement gets grabbed. A hunt runs long, from the temperature drop that warns you to the moment it ends, so set the length to 45 or 60 seconds to keep the tension unbroken. To change the shortcut, see saving the last few seconds instantly.

Find what was said with AI Voice Notes

Phasmophobia runs on proximity chat, so what people say is the content. Lines like 'EMF 5 in the kitchen, kitchen', 'if you're here, give us a sign' and 'I told you not to pull the tarot cards' never stop. DOR records game audio and your microphone together, and AI Voice Notes writes that conversation onto the recording timeline as text. When you want to find the moment someone yelled 'temps are dropping, it's going to hunt, hide', search the timeline text and select the line to jump straight to the scene. You can also check who ran first and who pulled the tarot cards, with the words and the footage side by side. If your squad talks over a separate Discord call, see recording Discord call audio.

Build a montage with AI Highlight

The trick to a Phasmophobia video is cutting the slow searching and keeping only the chilling parts. In the library, check the first spirit box answer, EMF 5 in the kitchen, surviving a hunt in a closet, catching a ghost orb, your friend alone in the basement and the right guess followed by the run to the truck, then select AI Highlight. DOR joins the checked moments into one horror video. Build it to follow a single contract from start to finish and viewers feel like they are investigating with you. To set the order yourself, see how to merge game clips.

Edit in DOR Studio

DOR Studio opens in your browser with nothing to install. Cut out the searching and add a shake zoom on the frame where the ghost appears to land the jump scare. Pop text up right on the scream, and add a handheld effect to quiet scenes to build tension. Reaction Shorts suit 9:16, and full investigation videos suit 16:9. To keep a dark hallway from feeling cramped 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 let a teammate relive their own scream in Discord or send the hunt to a friend who missed that night. For a group chat with friends who cannot handle horror, send a short clip that cuts right before the scream. How to find and send the screaming moments is covered in sharing Phasmophobia gameplay videos, and posting to Discord is covered in sharing clips on Discord.

Phasmophobia recommended settings and troubleshooting

Phasmophobia is fairly light, so recording runs smoothly even at minimum spec. The maps are dark and flashlight beams matter, so keeping the default 1080p at 30fps stops dim hallways from turning to mush. Pick 60fps if you want running during a hunt to look smoother, and if your in game frame rate drops, setting DOR to 720p/30fps mode is the lightest option. Fullscreen, windowed and borderless windows all record, so leave the game's settings alone. DOR uses GPU hardware encoding, so its effect on play is small. It has no cheat features and never touches your game files or play data. If you record on a laptop, see recording games on a low end PC.