Can you Record Longer than 60 minutes on PS5?
The PS5 is incredibly powerful and offers numerous new features to enhance your gaming experience. One of those features is the ability to record gameplay, allowing you to share your highlights on social media or relive cherished moments later. However, you might be wondering what the recording time limit on PS5 is.
Well, in this article, we will explore the possible recording lengths on PS5, along with some clever workarounds to beat the time limit. After all, who wouldn’t want to record those EPIC 2-hour cutscenes?
How To Record on PS5 in the First Place
Recordings are a standard functionality on PS5, offered through the Share menu at the touch of a dedicated button on your Dualsense controller. To access and start a recording, follow the steps:
- When playing a game, pausing, and entering share mode using the Share button (*).
- In sharing mode, select New Recording.
- Choose whether you want an *Action Button Capture or *Video Clip(up to 60 mins).
- Start the camera and wait for the footage to stop recording or timeout.
Now, onto whether you can record longer than 60 minutes on the PS5.
Limits and Exceptions
PS4 and PS5 recordings max out at 60 seconds, so you’ll soon hit this limit when setting up extended recording sessions – unless you use one work-around!
Step One: Auto-Upload Cloud Saves
The Cloud uploads your files, including cutscenes and gameplay clips within the set time (auto-upload).
Step Three: Reduce Storage Size!
Select Storage: > Format Internal
Storage. It enables you to reduce your videos’ file size for 4 hours, freeing capacity.
These are temporary strategies to allow you to temporarily bypass PS5’s fixed 60-minute video timeout. Long-term recording management requires consideration of data privacy and digital storage issues outside the bounds of standard memory constraints.
Please see and use any additional options discussed below
The Need for Extra Storage
PS5 has a 60mbps default bitrate and stores files up to 3840 * 2160 UHD quality. That combined with potential storage size constrains of 1000000 x 200 minutes of recordable length) will help you estimate
your future storage requirements correctly.
As the demand by users keeps growing and changing, consider these solutions outside the core PS5 itself:
Capture Card Devices
Utilize the HDMI port’s 1084i HDMI 2 standard to extend recording capacities above 1 hour:
(1)Elgato HD60S: Capable of 4-way simultaneous input capture. Perfect for simultaneous capture or input capture across multiple systems.)
(2)Roku Streaming Stick+ (and other) Streaming Stuffs: Enable 1 h of high-quality, crisp video stream
outputing from
your favorite service.
Some other important limitations and solutions are givenbelow:
Recording Duration