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LCClips: free, lightweight clipping software for Windows
LCClips is an instant-replay clipper, like ShadowPlay Instant Replay, Medal or Discord clips. It keeps the last few seconds of your screen, game audio and mic in a rolling buffer. Press a hotkey and that moment is saved as an MP4.
Capture and encoding run on your graphics card, so the hit to your game's frame rate is tiny. Clips save to your PC with no account and no setup beyond picking a hotkey.
Features
- One-key instant replay: press Alt+F10 (or any hotkey you choose) to save the last 5 to 600 seconds. It works from a Stream Deck or macro pad too, with a sound and a small on-screen "Clip saved" toast.
- Almost no FPS hit: Windows Desktop Duplication keeps frames on the GPU, and your card's own video encoder (NVIDIA NVENC, AMD AMF or Intel QuickSync) is picked automatically.
- Game audio and mic, mixed together, with volume controls and an audio sync offset.
- Clip library with thumbnails, search, play, open folder and delete.
- Built-in clip cutter: trim and join clips with LCEdit, with lossless fast cuts or frame-exact precise cuts.
- Optional share links, like Medal: upload a clip and get a short link that plays inline in Discord and X. It uses your own free Cloudflare account, with a 5-minute setup wizard.
- Runs in the tray, can start with Windows, and updates itself from GitHub.
- Resolution from native down to 720p, plus FPS and bitrate controls.
Why LCClips instead of ShadowPlay or Medal?
It works on any GPU. NVIDIA, AMD and Intel are all supported, so you're not tied to one brand's overlay.
No account, no ads, no cloud. Clips stay on your PC. Share links are optional and go through your own storage, not a third-party clip site.
Light on your game. FFmpeg runs at below-normal priority, so the game always comes first. Saving a clip joins buffered segments without re-encoding and takes under a second.
System requirements
| Operating system | Windows 10 or Windows 11, 64-bit |
|---|---|
| Graphics | Any GPU with a hardware video encoder (NVIDIA NVENC, AMD AMF or Intel QuickSync) is recommended. Falls back to CPU encoding otherwise. |
| Install | Per-user installer, no admin prompt. FFmpeg is included. |
| Price | Free. No subscriptions, ever. |
| License | Open source, MIT License |
FAQ
Is LCClips free?
Yes, completely free and open source under the MIT License, with no watermark, ads or account. You can support future LC tools if you'd like to.
Will it lower my FPS?
Very little. Capture uses Windows Desktop Duplication and encoding happens on your GPU's dedicated video encoder, which is separate from the part that renders your game. A 1–3% frame-rate difference is typical.
My clips are black in one game. How do I fix it?
Switch the game to Borderless Windowed. True exclusive fullscreen can block Desktop Duplication in some older DirectX 9 and 11 games.
Alt+F10 doesn't work. Why?
Another app has that hotkey, usually NVIDIA's own Instant Replay. Pick a different hotkey in LCClips or turn NVIDIA's off.
Windows says "Windows protected your PC". Is it safe?
The installer isn't code-signed yet, so SmartScreen warns about new downloads. Click More info → Run anyway. Always download from this page or the official GitHub releases.