You've read the Website Reporting Guidelines & FAQ and now you are wondering how you can record your game play to make website reports. If you haven't already read the Website Reporting Guidelines & FAQ, we recommend that you do so to learn the rules around using our web report system.

In this article, we cover how you can use Steam Gameplay Recorder to record in-game, to collect your report evidence.

Steam Gameplay Recorder

Steam has a built in game recording function which allows you to either record whole game play sessions or to clip a predefined time in the past. This article will guide you through setting Steam up ready to clip using a hotkey.
 

1. Open Steam and click Steam in the top left and go to Settings.
   
    
2. Go to the Game Recording menu item.
   
    
3. Set Recording Mode to Record in Background.
   
    
4. Set Save the last x second of gameplay as a clip to 120 seconds. Steam defaults this setting to 30 seconds. Set shortcut to a key that suits you by clicking the box to the right of the setting we just setup. In our case we used Key pad /.
   
    
5. You can setup Game-Specific settings if you don't want Steam to record in the background for all games. For example, we have American Truck Simulator setup in our example. You can also set your Recordings Folder here to a location that suits you.
   
    
6. You may now load the game. When you want to clip, use the hotkey you set in step 4. If you have Steam notifications enabled, it will notify you when a clip has been created as below.
   
    
7. When you leave your game, Steam will show you a Post-game summary which will allow you to access your clips.
   
    
   To access your clips at any time, you can also head to the Recordings and Screenshots section when you have your game selected in Steam. It is on the right hand side when you scroll down. Click a clip to open it.
   
    
8. Click Clip in the bottom right of the window, it will allow you to edit your clip.
   
    
9. Drag the timeline around to trim down the clip to the video length you need.
   
    
10. Click Save / Share.
    
     
11. Click Export Video File.
    
     
12. Set and appropriate file location by clicking the folder to the right of the file path. When done, click the Export Video button.
     
13. Head to the file location you set in Step 12. You can access your trimmed clips here.
    
     
14. Now that you have a clip, head over to YouTube and click Create and then Upload Video.
     
15. Wait until your video is done uploading and processing before submitting your report. Once completed, copy the video link and paste it into the report you are submitting.

Once you have obtained all of your evidence, you may submit your report against the other player here. If you are unfamiliar with the report system, you can check our other Knowledge Base article How to use the Report System.