Capturing Game Clips to an External Storage Without A Recording Time Limit

If you use an external drive as the capture location, you can record footage at 1080p that's way longer than 1 minute, but it has 2 important limitations.

1. You have to start and stop the recording manually. You can't use the "record that" feature to capture longer clips of something that just happened; that would still be limited to 1 minute at 1080p.

2. Clips captured on external storage cannot be shared over Xbox Live.

I think it's a good solution if you're recording footage to transfer over to a PC, edit, then upload to YouTube, but it's no good if you want to capture longer clips to share with friends over Xbox Live.

I wonder why they reduced the recording times though. I'm sure when I got my Xbox Series X, there was a 2 minute option for 1080p, but now, as you said, it's only 1 minute.

Hi,

The Storage Epansion card from Seagate is for Xbox game installs/downloads. It can't be used to record gameplay, which is why your Google searches were unsuccessful.

All you need to capture externally is an inexpensive USB 3.0 storage device. A suitable flash drive can do it.

Capture Xbox game clips to external storage.

Hello All,

Sorry for the issue
with captures. This is highly dependent on the resolution you choose.

Depending on your game clip resolution and available storage space, clips can last up to 10 minutes (capturing to internal storage) or 1 hour (capturing to external storage).


Also, we cant confirm as we are still looking into it, developers may have limits to recording as it is their game.Also, as this is an older thread, I will be locking this one. To keep it going please create a new thread.

Thanks,

Brad

Check that your capture settings are adjusted to your preferred settings. You can find this by pushing the Guide X button, captures and settings. You can set it to Allow Captures by you, or you and the game, the time duration, I use one min, Automatically
upload, Resolution and storage location. With automatic upload, I found that it caused delay in capturing because the console is trying to upload, while I was asking it to record again, and this just caused the system to get confused. Double check your capture
storage is set properly to Internal Storage, or an external storage formatted for pictures, not games.

To grab a quick screen shot push the Guide X button, then Y to snap a pic. To grab a clip push the Guide X button and X. These are quick button references to getting captures with limited interruption of game play.

In my experience, if I try to snap or clip too often or too quick it will not record them all. I try to wait for the notification to pop that the recording or pic was taken before taking another snap or clip.

I'm Samy an independent advisor

How are you, Stephen?

When you connect the external hard drive to your console does a screen appear asking you to format the drive to record captures? And have you also set your preferences to use the hard drive?

Press the Xbox button  to open the guide, and then select Profile & system > Settings > Preferences > Capture & share.

Select Capture location, and then choose a destination for your game clips and screenshots.

To start a recording>

Start your game. Press the Xbox button to open the guide.

Select Capture & share > Start recording. Depending on your game clip resolution and available storage space, clips can last up to 10 minutes (capturing to internal storage) or 1 hour (capturing to external storage).

To end the clip, open the guide and press the X button . You'll get a message when your clip is saved.