If your guild won a node war in Black Desert, or a long-delayed gear enhancement finally landed, you will want to show it to your guildmates and friends. Black Desert became a DOR 'full-play recording' game in the October 2026 app update. When you launch the game, DOR detects it and keeps everything from launch to exit as one video. In a single login you might hunt, trade, sail and fish, so recordings get very long, very fast. This guide covers deciding which days to record and which to skip, then finding the moments and sending them.
Split life-skill days from node war days
Black Desert players often leave life skills like fishing or processing running for a long time while away from the keyboard. Recording continues on those days too, so on days with nothing to show, switching off Black Desert's full-play recording in settings saves disk space. On the other hand, on days the guild moves together, such as node wars, sieges or boss hunts, leave it on from the start. For general checks on capturing multi-hour sessions without stutter, see the long gameplay recording guide.
Picking moments from a Black Desert recording and sending them to your guild
- 1Check recording status and disk space before logging inOn days with node wars or boss hunts, confirm Black Desert is on under 'Full-play recording' in DOR settings and that you have comfortably more than 20GB free. Then launch Black Desert on your Windows PC and automatic detection starts recording.
- 2Write down the node war start timeNote the time you launched the game alongside your guild's node war time, and you can work out how many hours and minutes into the recording to look. It saves a lot of scrubbing from the very beginning.
- 3Find fights by working backward from the decisionNode wars and sieges put so many players on screen that it is hard to tell where the key moment is. Find where guildmates cheer or stop moving first, then rewind one to two minutes so the deciding fight is included.
- 4Keep enhancement results short, starting just beforeIn an enhancement clip, the moment the result appears matters more than adding materials. Start five seconds before the result and keep it around ten seconds so friends see the outcome and react right away.
- 5Use different ratios for scenery and charactersScenery that changes while sailing or trading suits 16:9, which shows the full screen. When showing off a newly customized character, cut to 9:16 or 1:1 so the character fills the frame.
- 6Bundle several moments into one guild recordTrim the node war fight, the boss's final blow and the enhancement success separately, then merge them in DOR Studio in your browser and add background music and a date in text for a video of the guild's week. When it is done, paste the link in your guild channel.
Black Desert moments by content type and how much to keep
| Content | Clue in the recording | How much to keep and where to send it |
|---|---|---|
| Node war | Around the start time you noted, guildmates gather and head out together | Guild channel, 1-2 minutes of the deciding fight |
| Siege | The stretch where huge numbers crowd around the castle and the screen is busiest | Guild officers, 2-3 minutes of the key phase |
| Gear enhancement | You open the enhancement window, add materials, and the result appears | Friends, 10 s starting 5 s before the result |
| Field boss | The boss appears, players swarm in, and the final blow lands | The party you went with, 30-60 s |
| Sailing and trading | The stretch where the scenery changes as you travel by ship or horse | A friend taking a break from the game, 20-30 s with music |
| New character debut | Your first step into the field after finishing customization | Friends, 10-15 s in 9:16 |
Before you send
- Black Desert is on under 'Full-play recording' on node war days.
- I switched recording off on life-skill-only days to save disk space.
- I noted the node war start time and the time I launched the game.
- The enhancement clip is short, with the result near the start.
- Scenery is in 16:9 and character showcases are in 9:16 or 1:1.
- I have comfortably more than 20GB of free disk space.
How DOR records Black Desert
DOR is a free Windows desktop app. Launch Black Desert and it detects the game and records until you quit, as one mp4 video; it does not cut node war wins or enhancement successes into automatic highlights. You find the moment in the app library, trim it, and choosing 16:9, 9:16 or 1:1 creates a dor.gg link. To join several trimmed moments into one video, use DOR Studio, which opens in a browser with no install; tips for joining clips smoothly are in how to merge multiple game clips, and balancing music against game sound is covered in how to add music to game videos. Game sound and microphone are recorded together, so your voice calling shots during the node war stays in. On days you want a break from recording, switch off just Black Desert under 'Full-play recording' in settings; a confirmation prompt appears when you do.
