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Hello RowdyAlarm1, My name is David. I am an independent advisor, happy to help you today.

According to the Xbox support page, clips and screenshots that are uploaded to the Red Xbox may be deleted after 90 days.
If you want to keep your clips, it is recommended that you back them up to an external drive.

Make sure the clips and screenshots you're trying to move are compatible with the destination platform. Some platforms may have restrictions on file formats or file sizes that can be uploaded. Please consult your Xbox documentation or support for information on media file requirements and compatibility.

To move your clips to an external drive, you must first make sure the drive is formatted as NTFS. Then, connect the drive to your Xbox console and follow these steps:

Press the Xbox button to open the guide.
Go to “Profile & system” > “Settings” > “System” > “Storage”.
Select your external drive and choose “Set as capture location.”
Your clips and captures will be recorded to your external drive.
If you want to move clips that are on the Xbox network to your external drive, you must first download them to your Xbox console and then follow the steps above to move them to your external drive.

Best regards.

Hello Kursaalflyer,

Thank you for your quick response.

It appears that the capture location for your external drive is saved to GameDVR folder and XboxCapture copies folder. When copying multiple copies it goes directly to Xbox Capture Copies folder while captures clip is directly saved to GameDVR folder.

The GameDVR folder in external storage is a folder that contains the game clips and screenshots that you have recorded using the Xbox Game DVR feature on your console. The Game DVR feature allows you to capture your gameplay moments and share them with your friends or on social media. After recording clips, your external drive can now be plugged into a PC, where the traditional video files can be extracted. This essentially turns your console into a simple capture card, allowing recordings to be locally transferred for use in PC-based editing software. All files created by Game DVR can be found under the "Game DVR" folder automatically created on your drive.

The Xbox capture copies folder in external drive is a folder that contains the copies of the game clips and screenshots that you have recorded using the Xbox Game DVR feature on your console and then transferred to your external drive. The Xbox Game DVR feature allows you to capture your gameplay moments and share them with your friends or on social media. By transferring your game captures to an external drive, you can save space on your internal drive, backup your captures, and access them on other devices.

You can edit both the files saved on the GameDVR folder and the Xbox capture copies folder using PC editing tools. The difference is that the files on the GameDVR folder are the ones that you have recorded directly to your external drive by setting it as your capture location, while the files on the Xbox capture copies folder are the ones that you have copied or moved from your internal drive to your external drive. Both folders contain the same type of files, which are MP4 video files for game clips and PNG image files for screenshots.

For your reference, see: Capture Xbox game clips to external storage | Xbox Support

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Sincerely,

Hi there! This is Ronnie, an independent advisor.

Nice to meet you and I hope you are having a great day!

I understand you need help on your game clip recording.

Just a heads up that recording game clips and using the internal storage device most especially at higher resolution will only record shorter clips. If you want to record longer clips, I suggest using an external storage like a flash drive or external hard drive.

Hi there CJ!

I think the reason for the random clip records are the settings made in the "Capture & Share" there is an option called "allow game captures"

make sure that you have this on and not turned off I suggest you to put this to "captures by me" only else some games will record clips randomly this mostly happens if you get an achievement. You can find this in the Settings -> Preferences -> Capture &
Share options.

Also please make sure that you have the capture location set correctly on your Xbox in here at the same "Capture & Share" options.

If you want to make clips to the internal drive make sure that you have enough space on it. If you want to make clips on an external drive that you connected to your Xbox then you have to select it in the "capture location" settings.

I want to point out that if you are live streaming or streaming games from your Xbox to your PC it wont be able to record clips.

Best regards

Hi,

Thank you for your recommendations about the Youtube app in the Xbox One and about the One Drive app; I will try both methods to share my recorded game clips.

Thank you.

Jos