How To Record and Make Clips

TABLE OF CONTENTS

• Making Clips on PC
  • Clip Mode
  • Full Session Recording
  • How to Screen Record
  • Turning Off Recording

Making Clips on PC

Medal automatically starts recording as soon as you open your game. You don't need to remember to press a button to start recording!

Clip Mode

Clip Mode: The Default Capture Method Medal will automatically start recording as soon as you open your game. With just a tap of a button, you can capture the last 15, 30, 60, or 120 seconds, or even 5 or 10 minutes of gameplay! Default Clipping Button: The default button for clipping is F8. You can change this in Settings > Hotkeys. Storage: In clip mode, only the length of your clip is stored. For example, if you set your clip length to 30 seconds, only the past 30 seconds of video will be saved. Long Press Recording: If you hold down your hotkey (default F8) for more than 1 second, you will start recording a regular video. Hold the hotkey again for 1 second to stop the recording and return to clipping mode. Bookmarking: After starting a long recording by holding down the hotkey, tapping the hotkey will add a bookmark to your clip for easy review later.

Full Session Recording

Full Session Recording allows you to record your entire game session from the moment you launch your game! In this mode, we start capturing your gameplay as soon as you launch your game and end it when your game closes.

To enable this feature, click on the Medal settings icon in the bottom left, then select Clips & Recording.

Storage: Full sessions can use a lot of storage! If you are playing a game with Full Session mode for 8 hours, we will store 8 hours of video!

If you decide to use our Full Session Recording feature, Pressing the hotkey will insert a bookmark into your session so you can easily mark points of interest during your gaming session which you can then create clips of in the future.

Long Press: In Full Session Recording, if you hold down your hotkey (default is F8), it will end your current recording and immediately start a new one.

Bookmarking: Once a Full Session has started, whether you're in Full Session Recording mode or you've started it by long pressing, the Clip Hotkey (Default: F8) will change into a Bookmark Key. Pressing the hotkey will insert a bookmark into your session so you can easily mark points of interest during your gaming session which you can then create clips of in the future.

You can view this guide on how to edit and make clips from your Full Session Recording: How to create clips from a Full Session Recording

How to Screen Record

Screen recording with Medal.tv is simple and allows you to capture everything happening on your screen, not just your game.

• Enable Screen Recording: Click the Screen button.
• Choose the monitor to record: If you have multiple screens, this is where you can select which one.
• Set Your Hotkey: Configure your preferred hotkey for starting and stopping the screen recording.
• Start Recording: Press the hotkey to start recording. You will see an overlay indicating that recording is in progress.
• Stop Recording: Press the hotkey again to stop recording. Your recording will be saved to your Medal library.

Important note: Clips and sessions created by screen recording cannot be published unless you are a Premium user.

Turning Off Recording

When recording is turned off, Medal will detect your game and show you are playing it, but nothing will be recorded.

If you want to fully turn off Medal recording, go to the settings and turn off the "Record with Medal" option. This will stop all recording activities until you turn it back on.