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

StarCraft records automatically once DOR is installed: launch the game and the AI handles the rest. Start StarCraft from Battle.net and DOR detects it right away, recording everything from picking a lobby to a run of ladder games and a late night team game with friends, all in one video until you close the game. Because the result is a regular video rather than a replay file, it keeps playing after a patch and you never have to dig through a replay folder. This guide takes you through the full routine for StarCraft: installing DOR, confirming the recording, saving your best plays, finding them later, building a fights only video and sending it to your clan.

• Keep every ladder and team game you play in a session in one video, from your first worker to GG in chat.
• Save standout plays as separate clips, like holding a 4 pool with your workers or wiping dragoons with vulture mines.
• Use AI Voice Notes to find the moment your ally said 'push the 3 o'clock base together' and jump straight to that fight.
• Cut a 40 minute macro game down to the drop harass, the triple storm and the carrier versus goliath fight.
• Send your comeback win to your clan Discord or a friend's group chat with a single dor.gg link.

Before you record StarCraft: install and recording mode

StarCraft is light on hardware, so there is very little to prepare. DOR is a free Windows app and never adds a watermark. StarCraft uses full session recording, which means the video keeps running when a game ends and you drop back to the lobby, right up until you close StarCraft. All you need to remember is roughly which game of the night was the comeback. If you ladder on an older desktop or a laptop, also read recording games on a low end PC. The table below lists what is worth knowing before your first StarCraft recording.

Record StarCraft with DOR: step by step

1. 1Install DORDownload DOR and install it. Setup takes about a minute and the app is free. Once it is installed, leave DOR running. You do not need to press anything before queuing your next ladder game.
2. 2Launch StarCraft from Battle.netStart StarCraft from Battle.net as usual. Recording begins as soon as DOR detects the game, so the lobby where you set up a room and pick Fighting Spirit is part of the video. Seeing the loading screen at the start of the recording is normal.
3. 3Confirm the recording is runningWhen your first game starts, glance at the DOR app once to check that 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, focus on your build order no matter how many games you queue.
4. 4Save standout plays as clipsRight after you pull workers to hold an enemy 4 pool, or right after a reaver drop clears the mineral line in their main, press the clip save shortcut. The last 30 seconds are stored as a separate clip, so you will not have to scrub through the whole night later.
5. 5Quit and open My ClipsType GG in your last game and close StarCraft. The full session video and every clip you saved appear together in My Clips in the DOR app. A short ladder session and an all night team game marathon are stored the same way.

Find your recordings

Your recordings live in My Clips in the DOR app, also called the library. Each time you open and close StarCraft becomes one session, and anything you grabbed with the clip save shortcut shows up as its own clip. To find a specific game inside a long session, count the boundaries: every game begins with a loading screen and ends with the victory or defeat screen. A quick note such as 'game four, comeback against Zerg' makes this even faster. Once you find the game, set a start and an end point to trim the part you need, then export it as 16:9, 9:16 or 1:1. The full walkthrough is in how to trim game clips. Like the games you want to keep, such as a promotion win or a clan war final. When space fills up, older videos you have not liked are cleared first, so your liked games stay.

Save the moments you want to keep

Even with the whole session recorded, saving the plays you care about as clips on the spot makes them far easier to find. Press the clip save shortcut and the last stretch of gameplay becomes a clip. The default length is 30 seconds, and you can choose 15, 30, 45 or 60 seconds in settings. In StarCraft, good moments to press it are right after you hold an early rush, right after a line of vulture mines blows up an army, and right after a storm lands on a pack of hydralisks. A carrier versus goliath fight can run longer than a minute, so set the clip length to 60 seconds before a big engagement to capture all of it. To change the shortcut or choose a length for each kind of play, see saving the last few seconds instantly.

Find what was said with AI Voice Notes

Team games come with nonstop calls like 'It's a 4 pool, pull drones', 'Reaver drop in your main, move dragoons back' and 'Eight carriers out, we end it now'. DOR records game audio and your microphone together, and AI Voice Notes writes what was said onto the recording timeline as text. After the game, if you want to settle who called the rush first, find that line in the timeline text and select it to jump straight to the scene. The minute someone suggested taking the natural is on record too, which helps when you review a build. If your team talks over Discord, also read recording Discord call audio.

Build a montage with AI Highlight

Showing a long macro game in full means a lot of minutes spent watching workers mine. In the library, check your clips of the 4 pool hold, the reaver drop in the main, the triple storm on hydras, the carriers versus goliaths fight and the GG after losing your natural, then select AI Highlight. DOR joins them into one montage where only the fights remain and the opening worker production is gone. If you would rather set the order of the games yourself, see how to merge game clips.

Edit in DOR Studio

DOR Studio opens in your browser with nothing to install. Cut away the opening minutes of worker production and gas, add a shake zoom on the frame where the storms land and a punch zoom when a reaver scarab connects. Put a text line such as 'comeback starts at 12:00' over the footage with a background track and you have a micro showcase. When you merge highlights from several games, a glitch transition between them makes each game easy to tell apart. Export in 16:9 when the minimap matters and 9:16 for Shorts, then download the result as an mp4 or share it as a link straight away.

Share with a dor.gg link

Send trimmed games as dor.gg links. Whoever opens the link plays the video right in the browser without installing anything, so friends who are nowhere near their PC can still watch your comeback on a phone. For a clanmate who asked about your build, send the stretch from the start of the game to your first attack; for the friends from last night's team game, send the final fight. How to choose the range for each purpose is covered in sharing StarCraft gameplay videos, and posting to Discord is covered in sharing clips on Discord.

StarCraft recommended settings and troubleshooting

StarCraft is light, so the default 1080p at 30fps already captures units and the minimap clearly. If you want fast micro such as marine splits or mutalisk stacking to look smoother, switch to 60fps. If you ladder for hours on a laptop, the 720p/30fps mode keeps the load low. Fullscreen, windowed and borderless windows all record, so leave the game's display settings as they are. DOR uses GPU hardware encoding, so its effect on your in game frame rate is small. To keep a replay as a video, leave DOR running and play the replay; that screen is recorded like any other game. For nights where you queue game after game for hours, see recording long gameplay without stutter. DOR has no cheat features and never touches game files or play data.