Beating a boss in ELDEN RING is too good to keep to yourself. The attempt that finally got past a boss you lost count of dying to, a clean run where you never took a hit, a precise parry that turned the fight: you want to show these to the friend stuck on the same boss and to the friend who already beat it. This guide covers one method only: record ELDEN RING with DOR, find that scene in a recording full of attempts, trim it, and send it as a dor.gg link. What sets boss fights apart from other games is that the same fight repeats many times, so the focus here is on splitting the recording by attempt and choosing which attempts to keep and how much of each.
Record every attempt, pull out the one that worked
DOR saves ELDEN RING as a whole-session recording. From launch until you quit, everything goes into one continuous video: getting back up at a Site of Grace, running back to the boss arena, the failed attempts, and the successful one. DOR does not detect boss kills to make separate clips, so you find the attempt you want in the recording and cut it out with trimming. On nights when one boss eats the whole evening, recordings get long and grow quickly. Recording stops automatically when free space on the drive drops below 20GB, so if a recording did not survive to the end, follow the path and space checks in fixing recordings that do not save.
From a boss clear to a friend's screen
- 1Start the game with DOR runningDOR is a free Windows app that detects supported games when they launch and starts recording automatically. There is no record button to press, so you never forget to record before a boss, and with a mic connected even your cheer at the clear is saved along with the game sound.
- 2Note the time the moment you winOn a night of dozens of attempts, the fastest way to find the winning run is the clock. When the defeat message appears, glance at the taskbar clock before you celebrate. The winning attempt starts a few minutes before that time.
- 3Split attempts using the boss name and the death screenWhen you scrub through the recording in the library, the moment the boss name and health bar appear at the bottom and the death screen alternate. Each stretch between those two screens is one attempt, so once you find the stretch with the defeat message, the boss name just before it marks the start of the winning attempt.
- 4Shape the clip for the person receiving itFor a friend stuck on the same boss, sending the whole winning attempt shows the patterns and actually helps. For a friend who already beat it, or one who does not play, a short cut around the final blow is enough, and a few failures in front make the win mean more.
- 5Pick a ratio in trimming and create the linkSet the start and end in the library's trimming tool. A full boss fight, where both the boss's big moves and the health bar need to be visible, suits 16:9, while a short moment that plays out around your character, like a single parry, can be cut to 9:16. When trimming finishes, a dor.gg link is created.
- 6Add one line about which attempt it wasSend the link with one line saying which boss it was and how many tries it took. For a friend who plays, mention the weapon and build you used, and the video becomes the start of a strategy conversation.
What to keep from each part of a boss attempt log, and how to edit it
| Attempt log | On-screen clue in the recording | How to edit |
|---|---|---|
| First encounter | Passing the fog wall as the boss name and health bar appear for the first time | Just the boss entrance, 10 to 20 seconds |
| Failure reel | The few seconds before the death screen message | Two or three memorable failures, kept short |
| Learning the pattern | The first time you dodge a particular attack | One dodge with 5 seconds on each side |
| Parry counter | The critical hit right after a parry | About 15 seconds; 9:16 works too |
| Winning attempt | From the boss name appearing to the defeat message | Keep the whole attempt uncut |
| Co-op clear | Taking down the boss together with a summoned friend | Share the link with the friend who fought alongside you |
Checks before sending an Elden Ring boss video
- The boss video starts the moment the boss name and health bar appear.
- The clip runs until the defeat message has fully appeared on screen.
- Repeated runs from the Site of Grace to the boss arena are cut out.
- For friends who have not met this boss yet, you warned them the clip reveals it.
- Before a long session of attempts, you confirmed the drive has well over 20GB free.
- You opened the link once to make sure the health bar and boss movements look sharp.
How DOR keeps your ELDEN RING boss fights
DOR is a free Windows desktop app. Since the October 2026 app update, ELDEN RING is a supported game: when you launch it, DOR detects it automatically and records the whole session as one mp4 until you quit. You can turn whole-session recording on or off per game in settings. Trim a section in the app library to make a dor.gg link, and the recipient plays it right away in a browser, phone browsers included, with no app to install. If you want to join the first encounter, a failure reel, and the winning attempt into one piece and label each scene with its attempt number, use the DOR Studio covered in the browser clip editor. If you plan to post a single parry or final blow as a vertical short, also see how to make game shorts for tips on choosing the opening shot.
