When your group finally clears a raid you spent weeks learning, or a boss's health bar melts in a single DPS phase, you want to show it to the fireteam that was there and to the friends who missed it. This guide covers one method only: record Destiny 2 with DOR, find that moment inside a long session, trim it, and send it as a dor.gg link. Because raids and dungeons run long, the real work is not starting the recording but knowing where to look inside it afterward.
How DOR records Destiny 2
DOR saves Destiny 2 as a whole-session recording rather than match by match. Time spent sorting gear in the Tower, waiting in orbit, and every encounter from the raid entrance to the final boss all land in one file, and DOR does not detect kills or clears to build separate clips. That means you set the start and end of each shareable clip yourself. The basics of choosing those points are covered in how to trim game clips.
From raid night to a shareable link
- 1Clear disk space before the raidA whole-session recording runs until you close the game, so one long raid can produce a large file. Recording stops automatically when free space on the drive drops below 20GB, so delete old videos ahead of time to make sure it does not cut out right before the final boss.
- 2Launch the game with DOR installedDOR is a free Windows app that detects a supported game when it starts and begins recording. If you want your fireteam's comms in the video, plug in your microphone; game audio and mic are recorded into the same video.
- 3Remember roughly when the big moment happenedWith no automatic clips, a rough timestamp saves a lot of scrubbing. Knowing approximately when the DPS phase began or when the final Trials round started makes a multi-hour recording much faster to navigate.
- 4Open the session in the libraryWhen you close the game, the recording is saved as an mp4 and shows up in the app library. Open that night's session and drag through the timeline, using big scene changes such as the raid entrance, the boss room and the completion screen as landmarks.
- 5Trim only the DPS phase or the clearStart the trim just before buffs go up and end it after the boss drops and the cheering settles, so the clip keeps its context. Choose 16:9 for a group chat on PC, or 9:16 or 1:1 if most friends will watch on their phones.
- 6Paste the dor.gg link to your fireteamWhen the trim finishes, you get a dor.gg link. Instead of passing around a heavy file, paste that link into your chat or Discord channel, and friends can open it even in a mobile browser.
Moments worth clipping, by activity
| Activity | What to show friends | How to spot it in the recording |
|---|---|---|
| First raid clear | The final boss going down and the completion text appearing | Late in the session, where voice chat suddenly gets loud |
| Boss DPS phase | Buffs lined up and the whole team unloading at once | Everyone stacked in one spot with supers going off back to back |
| Mechanic wipe | The funny moment one mistake takes out the whole team | Just before the screen darkens and revives are unavailable |
| Trials of Osiris | The last player standing flipping a 3v3 final round | Right before and after the round score changes |
| Dungeon or strike | A small fireteam surviving a close call | Near the moment someone runs dry on ammo and swaps weapons |
| New gear drop | Finally getting the weapon or look you chased | The reward screen right after an activity ends |
Before sending a raid clip
- I checked that the drive has comfortably more than 20GB free before the raid.
- I noted roughly when the boss DPS phase started.
- The trimmed clip includes a few seconds of the team setting up buffs.
- I cut any voice chat that a teammate would not want made public.
- I picked the aspect ratio based on whether friends will watch on a phone or a PC.
- I opened the link once to confirm the video and sound play correctly.
How DOR fits Destiny 2
DOR is a free Windows desktop app. When you launch Destiny 2, it detects the game and records the entire session as a single mp4 until you close it, using NVENC hardware encoding by default on PCs with an NVIDIA graphics card. Trimming a section in the app library gives you a dor.gg link, and whoever receives it opens the video in a browser with no install. To stitch several raid moments into one video, use DOR Studio in the browser, which needs no install and can merge videos and add text or background music; merging game clips covers how to order them. For keeping multi-hour sessions stable while recording, see recording long gameplay without stutter.
