A StarCraft game where your main was nearly wiped before you turned it around, or where you pulled workers to hold an early rush, does not land when you just describe it. The same goes for when a friend asks, "How did you open that game?" This guide covers one method: record StarCraft with DOR, cut out only the part of the game you want to show, and send it as a dor.gg link. Once StarCraft is open, many players run several ladder and team games in a row, so one recording holds multiple games. That is why this guide focuses on how to find each game and how to set a different trim range for each goal: a comeback, a rush defense, a team game or a build order.
In short
Play StarCraft on a PC with DOR installed and every game until you close it goes into one video. Open that video in the library, find the game you want to show, trim only the range that fits your goal, and send the dor.gg link to your friend. If you want to join two scenes, as with a comeback, or label your build order with text, use the studio in your browser; its screens are explained in The DOR Browser Clip Editor.
Sending a StarCraft game to a friend, step by step
- 1Install DOR and launch StarCraftInstall the free DOR app on your Windows PC and launch StarCraft. DOR detects the game automatically and starts recording, and waiting screens plus every game run into one video until you close it.
- 2Note order, opponent race and result for each gameBecause one recording holds several games, jot down something short like "game 4, comeback vs Zerg" or "game 6, team map". Just knowing which number the game was cuts your search time a lot.
- 3Find game boundaries by start and result screensWhen you close the game, the session lands in the library as one mp4. The scene where a game starts and the victory or defeat screen mark the boundaries between games, so count those points to reach the game you noted.
- 4Set the trim range for your goalTo show a build, keep everything from game start to just before the first attack. For a rush defense, run from the first enemy units to your counterattack. For a comeback, make two cuts: the losing moment and the turnaround fight. Choose 16:9 for friends watching the PC view, or 9:16 or 1:1 for friends on a phone.
- 5Send the link to the friend who asked about your buildTrimming creates a dor.gg link. Send it to the friend who asked about your build, and they can pause the video in a browser to check your building order. Post it once in your team group chat and everyone sees the same video.
- 6Join two scenes in the studioTo make the two comeback segments into one video, open DOR Studio in your browser, merge them, and add text such as "turnaround here" or your build's name. Share the result as a link or download it as an mp4.
How to trim a StarCraft game for each goal
| Game you want to show | How to trim it | What your friend learns from it |
|---|---|---|
| Comeback win | Cut the moment your main was overrun and the fight that turned it, then join them | Where you were behind and what turned it around |
| Rush defense | From the first sight of enemy units until you hold and push back | Where you walled off and the call to pull workers |
| Fast unlimited-resource team map | These games run long, so take only the big fight that decided it | Which direction your teammates came in from |
| Showing your build | The whole opening, from game start until just before your first attack | The order and timing of your buildings |
| Drops and harass | From the transport heading out until the worker damage shows | The route you used and how you got out |
| Finishing blow | From the final fight until your opponent types GG and leaves | The moment that decided the game |
Checks before sending StarCraft footage
- You are fine with your opponent's ID appearing in the video
- For team games, your teammates agreed to the share
- The comeback video includes enough of the losing stretch for the turnaround to land
- The build video does not cut off before the key timing right before your first attack
- Your mic did not pick up something you only meant for one friend
- You have at least 20GB of free disk space before a long run of games
How DOR records StarCraft
DOR is a free Windows desktop app. When you launch StarCraft, it detects the game and records it with full-session recording: one mp4 from launch to exit. There are no per-game highlights or automatic clips that pick out fights, so you find and trim the game you want to show yourself. With several games in a row, the disk fills quickly, and as the app settings note, recording stops automatically when free space drops below 20GB. On NVIDIA graphics cards, NVENC hardware encoding is the default, and game audio and your mic go into the same video. For tips on setting start and end points, see How to Trim Game Clips, and for joining several segments into one video, see How to Merge Game Clips.
