Clips

Players can record short clips with the same frame, stickers and logo as their photos: GIFs on every platform, MP4 videos on Windows. The camera can move by itself while recording, and the clip can loop forward or ping-pong. Clips have no sound.

Recording a clip

1. On the Clip tab, choose the format, length, frame rate, size, camera motion and loop. The Record clip button shows what you will get, for example “45 frames · about 2.5 MB”.

2. Press Record clip, or set Capture button to Record clip and press Space (or Y).

3. The menu hides while recording and is never in the clip; the frame, stickers and logo are. A red line shows the time, such as “REC 1.5 / 3.0 s”, with a bar.

4. The clip stops by itself at the end. Press Space (Y) to stop early and keep the clip, or Esc (B) to cancel it.

5. “Making GIF… 40%” (or “Making MP4 video…”) shows with a progress bar, then Clip saved with a thumbnail, the format, length and file size.

The rows are listed in The photo mode screen.

Frame by frame

In single-player games (Frame By Frame, on by default) the engine runs a fixed time step while recording, so every frame of the clip is exactly one frame apart however slowly the PC renders; the game simply runs slower than real time for those seconds. The time step is put back afterwards, also when photo mode closes during a recording.

In network games, frames are taken as the game runs.

Camera motion

Motion	What the camera does
Free	You move the camera while the clip records.
Orbit	Circles the selected character, or the locked focus point.
Dolly in, Dolly out	Moves toward or away from what it looks at.
Pan	Turns left to right.
Tilt	Turns up.
Zoom in	Narrows the field of view.
Crane up	Rises straight up.

The camera starts where it is and comes back after recording. Motion amount sets how far it moves (shown in degrees, metres or as a zoom factor) and Smooth start and end eases the motion in and out. Loop: Ping-pong plays forward, then backward, so the clip loops without a jump.

GIF

• One palette for the whole clip, an ordered dither that stays steady between frames (Gif Dither), and frames that store only what changed (Gif Frame Deltas), so files stay small.
• All frames are kept in memory until the GIF is made. Max Clip Memory MB (256, 96 on mobile) shortens clips that would not fit: the Length row then stops earlier.

MP4

• H.264 through Windows Media Foundation, the encoder that comes with Windows. Use Hardware Video Encoder lets Windows use the graphics card when it can.
• Windows N editions without the Media Feature Pack have no encoder; the Clip tab then offers GIF only and the Format hint says why.
• On other platforms clips are GIFs.

Files

Clips go to the photo folder, named with Clip Prefix, for example Clip_2026-10-24_18-30-05.gif. The Thumbnails folder gets a poster thumbnail, a strip of small frames for the gallery and a JSON file. The gallery plays clips.

Profile settings

Setting	Default	Description
Allow Clips	On	Players can record clips. Off hides the Clip tab.
Allow Mp4	On	Offer MP4 where Windows can make it.
Default Clip	GIF, 3 s, 15 fps, 480 px, Orbit, 35 %, Forward, smooth	Starting settings for players who never changed them.
Gif Sizes	320, 480, 640, 800, 960	Long side choices for GIFs, in pixels.
Mp4 Sizes	1280, 1920	Long side choices for MP4s (720p and 1080p for 16:9).
Gif Frame Rates	10, 15, 20, 25
Mp4 Frame Rates	24, 30, 60
Max Gif Seconds	6
Max Mp4 Seconds	15
Max Clip Memory MB	256 (96 on mobile)	Memory for a GIF’s frames while it records. Longer clips are shortened.
Gif Dither	Ordered	Ordered, None or Error Diffusion (sharper, but it shimmers between frames and makes bigger files).
Gif Colors	256	Palette size; fewer colours make smaller files.
Gif Frame Deltas	On	GIF frames store only what changed.
Use Hardware Video Encoder	On	MP4: let Windows use the graphics card’s video encoder when there is one.
Frame By Frame	On	Single-player games record with a fixed time step.
Clip Prefix	Clip

Messages

Message	Meaning
Clip cancelled.	The player cancelled the recording.
The clip was too short to keep.	Too few frames were recorded.
A clip is still being saved.	The previous clip is still being made.
Clips are off in this game.	The profile’s Allow Clips is off.
The GIF could not be made.	Encoding the GIF failed.
Could not write file.	The folder can’t be written to.

Note

From Blueprint or C++: Start Clip, Stop Clip, Is Recording Clip, Is Saving Clip, Get Clip Progress and the events On Clip Started and On Clip Saved. See Blueprint & C++.