OBS writes every recording into one flat folder. QlipQRenamer is an optional companion script that sorts each finished recording, saved replay, and screenshot into a folder named after the game you were capturing — the same per-game layout NVIDIA ShadowPlay uses, and one QlipQ already understands. It runs on the LuaJIT runtime bundled with OBS, so there is no Python to install.

Based on the original OBS Studio script by oxypatic, reimplemented in Lua. All credit for the original idea goes to its author.

1. Install the script

1. Download qlipq-renamer.lua.
2. In OBS, open Tools → Scripts.
3. On the Lua Scripts tab, click + and select qlipq-renamer.lua.

Requires OBS 28 or newer. Works on Windows, macOS, and Linux. Unlike the original Python script, this uses the Lua runtime OBS already ships with — nothing else to install.

2. Configure it

The script reads the game from your scene’s Game Capture (or Window Capture) source, then files clips into subfolders of your existing recording folder. Open it under Tools → Scripts → qlipq-renamer.lua to set:

Folders vs. metadata are independent. You can move into folders, embed the game as a game= metadata tag, both, or neither — whatever suits your workflow. The metadata tag uses ffmpeg to stream-copy the file (no re-encode); mkv stores it most reliably (mp4’s metadata support is limited), and on Windows it briefly flashes a console window per clip. qlipq already writes this same game= tag when you export, so the metadata option is mainly for tagging the original recordings.

The capture source must be visible in your current scene for the script to read the hooked game. Keep your Game/Window Capture source enabled.

Using Display Capture? On Windows, when no Game/Window Capture identifies the app, the script falls back to the focused window — so whole-monitor recordings still sort by game. (It skips the OBS window and the desktop, and a Game/Window Capture always takes priority.) On macOS/Linux this fallback isn’t available, so Display Capture clips use the fallback folder.

3. What the folders look like

Say OBS records into D:\Clips. Before the script, everything piles up in one place:

D:\Clips\
├─ 2026-06-30 21-14-02.mkv
├─ 2026-06-30 21-55-40.mkv
├─ Replay 2026-06-30 22-03-11.mkv
└─ 2026-06-30 22-10-00.png

With the script running, each file lands under the game that was hooked when it was captured:

D:\Clips\
├─ Apex Legends\
│  ├─ 2026-06-30 21-14-02.mkv
│  └─ Replay 2026-06-30 22-03-11.mkv
├─ Counter Strike 2\
│  └─ 2026-06-30 21-55-40.mkv
└─ Any Recording\
   └─ screenshot\
      └─ 2026-06-30 22-10-00.png

(The screenshot was taken on the desktop with no game hooked, so it went to the fallback folder.)

Switch Organization mode to Folder per game, then date to add a daily subfolder:

D:\Clips\Apex Legends\26-06-30\2026-06-30 21-14-02.mkv

4. Let QlipQ read the organized clips

QlipQ scans each watched folder including subfolders, so the tidied clips still land in your queue. It also recovers the game name and surfaces it as the {source} token in your naming template. The script can drive that two ways:

• From the folder. When a clip sits in a per-game subfolder under a watched folder — exactly what this script creates — QlipQ uses that folder name as the source, the same convention it reads from NVIDIA Share. Just add your OBS recording folder under Settings → Watched folders (QlipQ can auto-detect it). In the example above, the queue shows the two .mkv clips with {source} = Apex Legends and Counter Strike 2.
• From the filename. Turn on Prefix filenames with the game title and the script names files Apex Legends - 2026-06-30 21-14-02.mkv. QlipQ reads the leading label as the source, so the game name rides along even if the clip is later moved out of its folder.

A filename label takes precedence over the folder when both are present, so it is safe to use either or both.

This is the same {source} covered in OBS replay buffer setup — the script is just a hands-off way to fill it without editing OBS’s filename format yourself.

5. Recommended setup

For a clean capture-to-clip pipeline:

1. Set OBS to record in mkv and, ideally, run the replay buffer — see OBS replay buffer setup.
2. Load qlipq-renamer.lua and leave the defaults (per-game folders; replays and screenshots organized).
3. In QlipQ, add your OBS recording folder under Settings → Watched folders.
4. That’s it: press your save-replay hotkey mid-game, the script files the clip under the game, and QlipQ queues it with the game already set as {source}.

Prefer the game name baked into the filenames (e.g. you sync clips elsewhere)? Also enable Prefix filenames with the game title.

Troubleshooting

• Clips land in “Any Recording.” No app was detected at capture time. Make sure your Game Capture (or Window Capture) source is in the current scene, visible, and actually capturing. On macOS/Linux, Display Capture can’t report a game, so those clips always use the fallback folder.
• The game folder name looks stripped (e.g. Tom Clancys Rainbow Six Siege). Titles are reduced to letters, numbers, and spaces, so punctuation like :, ®, or ' is removed — matching how the original script names folders.
• A split recording wasn’t fully sorted. With OBS automatic file splitting, only the final segment is moved; earlier segments stay in the root folder.
• Nothing moved at all. The script acts when a file is finalized — Recording Stopped, Replay Buffer Saved, or Screenshot Taken — not while recording is still running.

What it covers (and what it doesn’t)

The script files the final recording on stop, every saved replay, and every screenshot. It does not split-handle OBS automatic file-splitting mid-recording (only the last segment is sorted), and it tracks the capture source in your current scene (sources nested inside sub-scenes are not traversed).

Next: point QlipQ at your recording folder.