As is usually the case with Sony's consoles, the PS5 has many small features that some users might not even know about. One such example is the current-gen machine's ability to automatically save video clips (and screenshots) every time you earn a Trophy in a game.
This feature is enabled by default, and it means your media gallery might be stuffed with hundreds, maybe thousands of stills and short clips for every single Trophy you've unlocked.
It's something that caught out this player on the PS5 subreddit, shocked at discovering over 2,200 clips in their storage:
As the post brings up, these short videos and screenshots are harmless on their own, but if you amass a lot of them, their total file size will take up a surprising amount of space on your PS5's SSD.
If you wanted to change your console's settings, go to Captures and Broadcasts > Captures > Trophies, and you can choose which ones are automatically saved — or turn the feature off altogether.
There's of course an argument for both sides of this. In theory it's quite a nice idea to save those Trophy-earning moments so you can look back on, and share, memorable sequences in games, your displays of skill, and so on. If you have the spare storage, it's not really an issue, and allows you to take a trip down memory lane.
However, if you play a lot of games and are constantly earning Trophies (whether intending to or not), the feature could just be soaking up valuable SSD space you want to use for other things. Plus, not everyone is into Trophies, so you may simply not be interested in looking back at the times you unlocked them.
It's a small feature that's potentially quite impactful on your PS5 experience, especially if you're still rocking the default SSD.
What do you think? Do you enjoy your PS5 cataloguing all your Trophies with screenshots and videos, or is it merely a waste of space? Do you leave the feature on or have you toggled it off? Discuss in the comments section below.
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I only left it on for Gold and Platinum trophies, to avoid clutter.
I only have it set to save the videos for platinums, which I do occasionally go back and watch tbf
Wouldn't use it for every trophy, but it's a nice little feature to have available
I'm a huge trophy addict, but I turned that off asap when I discovered this in 2020 at launch. I only leave screenshot for platinum trophy only. Having 15 sec video at 1080p for every trophy would have filled up my HD in mere months.
Once I realised it was a feature and how much space it was taking up I switched it to just record the platinum trophies.
I don't use it. I just make my own clips if I thought I did something cool or want to rewatch a good fight on Mortal Kombat or something.
Sure. Let’s me relive some cool moments. See no reason to turn it off.
I didn’t know about it until I got my first PS5 trophy. I thought it was pretty interesting that it does so and just keep it on.
Wow i didnt know that was a feature, its a bit Dorien Grey/Narcissistic though eh 🤣🤣
No turned it off. My gallery was filled up with 3 second clips of just s**t.
I keep it on but delete them all every time so I should really just keep it off. 80% of them are clips of a loading screen or me going thru a menu. They're not that cool lol
That reminds me I’ve forgotten to disable this since having my pro, thanks for the reminder!
I turned it off as soon as I realised it was doing it, that mysterious "other" taking up storage is bad enough without clips I'll never look back on also taking up space
Just like Concord's servers, it's turned off.
Only videos for Platinum and screenshots for Gold, they certainly add up in space but it’s always interesting to remember how I finished X game.
Just for those sweet platinums, which seems to be a common theme in the comments.
I don't care about worthless trophies or achievements to begin with let alone keeping screenshots or clips related to them.
Turned that nonsense of straight away.
I set mine up to do just platinums that way I don’t have to rifle through thousands of screenshots to get to the ones I took myself
I am from an era when nobody cared about a popup window when you perform a certain task/complete a quest etc. Disabled the ‚feature’ as soon as I found out about it.
one of the first things I turned off after buying the system. The pop is enough and I can always manually create a video if something happens I wanna remember/show someone.
They take up a bit of space which is a premium for me at the moment but I disabled this and the snap shot as well..
I’ve set mine for Platinum’s only. I love looking back at the short clips of some of my best plats every now and then. I only have eight of the suckers, but my Death’s Door one is still my favourite to watch.
One of the 1st settings to turn off.
I rather have the screenshots to be honest. But i like the features.
just screen shots videos take up too much space
@IOI I never knew you could set that up seperate where can you find that?
Don't like taking up valuable storage space, so I turned it off. If there's a clip I want to save, I'll use the video clip feature which saves the last 15 minutes and I can edit from there.
Heck yes I turned it off. I’ve never trophy hunted in my life and couldn’t care less if I get one.
I disabled it because it was taking up a lot of memory
I have mine set to only capture Platinums. (video and screenshot)
Sadly, I accidentally deleted my Stellar Blade platinum capture. However, it exists in a video I uploaded awhile back on YouTube.
I think it's a cool feature but should have been apart of the setup, asking users what their preference is.
I have it enabled only for gold and platinum trophies. The later specially, I like to see again and feel that victory sensation,
No, why would I. Everything trophy related is turned off. There's literally nothing less useful than useless trophies, achievements or other "gamification" bs
I didn’t know you could turn it off.
Does it let you choose where to storm them? I have a thumb drive where I have backed them up to before I deleted them to save space. If I could just tell it to save stuff there that would be great. I also have my old PS4 external HDD hooked up, that would work too.
Guess I’ll go check later, thanks.
I used to leave it on for platinum trophies only. But then I realised the last trophy is usually a really grindy one and I was amassing vids of me killing some random enemy. So off it went.
On for platinum trophies only
You can turn that off??? Doing that ASAP. The feature is a space drain!
@FinneasGH Man, that is the first thing to do with new console!
It’s one of the first settings I changed when I got my PS5.
Not sure how to answer - I save them for Gold and Platinum, as someone else said, but that doesn't seem to be a poll choice.
I have it set only for my platinum trophies.
I dont really see the point in trophy's tbh
Turning this off the first thing I did after I booted mine up for the first time. Literally…the first thing.
I had NO idea you could filter it to only clip Plats! Ik what I’ll be doing after work, this is game changing
I only do the screens. Turned off the video
Thanks I'm turning that shiz off straight away. I dislike Trophies and wish I could turn to them off completely. They seem too much like organised fun.
Platinums only for me. Though it has to be said, it could really use some thought from developers as to exactly when the trophies are triggered and what is on the screen, especially with regard to the screenshot it saves. Quite often I've had a screenshot of just a black screen with the trophy notification, because it was going into a cut scene or similar, and that pretty much renders it useless.
I’m a big time trophy hunter but I set the feature to only record gold and platinum trophies otherwise that would eat up waaaaaay too much space.
Turned it off on day one, the SSD already gets a battering with the constant game capture recording without needing to making it worse. I'd turn that off too if I could.
No I had it on the PS4 but seeing an image of a Collosi dying from SoC and a trophy notification was too much. Made me realise how dumb it was. Changed the settings immediately. Also makes me trophy hunt less.
Of course i turned it off. That eats up the SSD.
I'm a big trophy hunter (but have given up on some plats) and I turned the feature off a long time ago.
One of my most disliked features ever since they started it on ps4
I leave it on, but not really sure why. I just clear all the videos out now and again. The only time I did anything with one was getting the slay the spire platinum which I proudly shared. It got a whopping 8 views.
Turned it off as soon as I got the Tub o' Lard. Microscopic hard drive space being eaten up by pointless clips....
Keep it enabled cause if it was a particularly tough trophy I'll relive it
I've got it enabled for platinums only. 👍
Screenshots for gold and platinum trophies, video capture is turned off for everything else, they just take up too much space to use regularly
I set it for Platinum Trophies only so not to fill the memory. Used to be better when you could share them straight to twitter. Tend to delete them after a while now though.
I usually delete them to have space but I don't care about trophies much unless I was actually trying to get them if I just get them without even knowing or trying I delete the clip
Yes just keep the video clip for Platinums enabled
I posted this elsewhere, but I just discovered that although I disabled auto-captures for trophies, when I play PS Portal through cloud streaming it still takes trophy pics. It’s just they don’t get loaded onto the PS5, they only show up on the PS mobile app. Weird, but I guess it makes sense because the Portal is now an independent console untethered from the PS5 when you’re cloud streaming.
I have it selected for only the platinums. You build up too much storage keeping every shot.
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