Xbox One video captures can be uploaded to SkyDrive

Microsoft has announced that gameplay clips captured on Xbox One can be uploaded to SkyDrive, its free cloud-based storage system.

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Microsoft has announced that gameplay clips captured on Xbox One can be uploaded to SkyDrive, its free cloud-based storage system. The benefit of the service is that you'll be able to easily download your captured files, making it easy to share your clips through other video services like YouTube. A new trailer shows off the capture and editing tools that come standard on the system, which altogether look pretty easy to use.

Like Xbox One, PS4 also has video sharing, albeit through Facebook, which compresses the video fairly drastically.

Since Xbox One is constantly recording, you can just let it know to keep a clip that has already been captured after a particularly interesting bit of gameplay by saying "Xbox, record that." Keep in mind, of course, that the game DVR requires a Gold subscription, so sharing through SkyDrive would be useless without.

SkyDrive users have access to 7GB of free storage, with more storage available for purchase.

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    November 19, 2013 8:30 AM

    Steve Watts posted a new article, Xbox One video captures can be uploaded to SkyDrive.

    Microsoft has announced that gameplay clips captured on Xbox One can be uploaded to SkyDrive, its free cloud-based storage system.

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      November 19, 2013 8:44 AM

      This looks pretty sweet. I'm debating getting rid of my Google Drive and going all Sky Drive instead now.

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        November 19, 2013 8:50 AM

        I only use my Sky Drive for backing up my Windows Phone pictures.

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        November 19, 2013 10:21 AM

        I have Sky Drive for my Office Documents. Works just like Dropbox but from within the Office apps.

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          November 19, 2013 1:27 PM

          SkyDrive shows up in Explorer on Win8.1 for me...

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            November 19, 2013 1:45 PM

            Mine does too but I set it up in Office as well so it sees my documents folder like it would in Windows on my HDD.

            I remember implementing those back in Win7

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        November 19, 2013 1:29 PM

        I use it to backup all my family photos. 25 gigs of storage that syncs with my computer and skydrive is pretty awesome [same as google drive but more free space].

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      November 19, 2013 8:55 AM

      that upload process is a lot less clunky than Sony's. pretty nice

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        November 19, 2013 8:57 AM

        Yea, they have a lot of polish on the stuff at launch, just think of how better it's going to get over the life of the system.

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      November 19, 2013 1:26 PM

      Microsoft really feeling the heat from Google and Apple. They know Xbox and Surface are pretty crucial to their continued relevance.

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      November 19, 2013 1:57 PM

      So much win. I was hoping you'd be able to get the raw files and edit them yourself but I assumed it would make too much sense for Microsoft to do something so user friendly. I'm pleased they proved me wrong.

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        November 19, 2013 2:07 PM

        I would assume you could upload the original clip without any PIP or style and then edit the clips in your favorite editor.

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