How to get GTA 6 clips off your PS5 or Xbox onto TikTok and Shorts

Your console already records the clip. The part everyone gets stuck on is getting that file to a computer and turning a 16:9 recording into a vertical 9:16 Short people actually watch. Here is the whole path, about five minutes the first time and under a minute after that.

PlayStation 5 save the clip, then get it off the console

1. Save the moment after it happens. Press the Create button (left of the touchpad) and choose Save Recent Gameplay. Pick how far back to save, from 15 seconds up to the last hour. The PS5 is always recording in the background, so you never need to start anything in advance.
2. Or record on purpose. Create button, then Start New Recording. Press Create again to stop.
3. Get it to your phone, automatically. On the PS5 go to Settings › Captures and Broadcasts › Captures › Auto-Upload and turn it on. Clips then appear in the PlayStation App on your phone under Game Library › Captures, where you can save them to your camera roll.
4. Get it to your computer. Fastest is a USB stick: open Media Gallery on the PS5, select the clip, press Options and choose Copy to USB Drive. Or save it to your phone first and send it to the laptop with AirDrop, a cable, Google Drive or your messaging app of choice.

Xbox Series X|S save the clip, then get it off the console

1. Save the moment after it happens. Press the Xbox button, go to Capture & share and choose Record what happened, then pick how far back to save. On a Series controller you can also hold the Share button to save the last stretch of play.
2. Or record on purpose. Capture & share › Start recording. Press the Share button to stop.
3. Get it to your phone. Turn on automatic uploads under Settings › Preferences › Capture & share. Clips show up in the Xbox app on your phone under your profile's Captures, where you can download them.
4. Get it to your computer. In Capture & share › Recent captures, select the clip and choose Upload to OneDrive, then open OneDrive on your laptop. A USB drive formatted as NTFS also works: select the clip and choose copy to the external drive.

PC Xbox Game Bar is already installed on Windows

1. Press Win + Alt + R to start and stop recording, or Win + Alt + G to save the last 30 seconds (you can raise that in Game Bar settings under Capture).
2. Your clips land in Videos › Captures. That is the file you drop into the clipper.

Make it vertical the step that gets views

1. Open the free 9:16 clipper on your laptop and drop the file in. Nothing uploads: it all runs inside your browser, so there is no queue and no account.
2. Play to the good part, press Start Cut, then End Cut. Add a second or third cut if you want to stitch moments together, up to 3 minutes total.
3. Frame it: the top box is your facecam (if you have one), the bottom box is the gameplay. Drag the boxes on the 16:9 preview and watch the phone preview update.
4. Press Auto-caption. Speech-to-text runs on your own computer and burns the words in. Most watched-on-mute Shorts have captions; it is the single biggest difference between a clip that gets 200 views and one that gets 20,000.
5. Add a hook banner ("WAIT FOR THE ENDING…") and export. You get a 1080×1920 MP4 ready for TikTok, YouTube Shorts and Instagram Reels.

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