With Xbox, capturing gameplay is as easy as clicking a button.

But when it comes to editing or backing up your game captures, consoles usually lack the required tools.

Luckily, Xbox provides a quick and easy way to move your game captures to an external storage rig.

A photograph of a white Xbox One controller in front of a lit monitor

You could back up your captures and use any editing tool available on your phone or PC.

Let’s find out.

The Xbox Captures app is Xbox’s integrated app for capturing gameplay on your console.

A screenshot of the main menu for the Xbox Captures app

This makes searching and managing your capture gameplay on Xbox easy and streamlined.

As well as moving captures to external storage, you canupload Xbox captures directly to OneDrive.

However, this would forfeit backing up your captures onto physical storage.

A screenshot of the Media Player for Xbox Series X highlgihting a connected USB drive

To move game captures, selectUse for Media.

The captures can be found within a folder titledXbox Capture Copieson your storage equipment.

Utilizing portable storage allows you to more sufficiently transfer your game capture copies from one equipment to another.

A screenshot of the My Games and Apps page of an Xbox Series X Guide with See All highlighted

A screenshot of the Xbox Captures App with a few clips game clips selected and Copy to External Storage highlighted