Product: The Sims 4Platform:PCWhich language are you playing the game in? EnglishHow often does the bug occur? Often (50% - 99%)What is your current game version number? 1.48.94.1020What expansions, game packs, and stuff packs do you have installed? All games except Backyard stuff, romantic stuff, cool kitchen and spooky Steps: How can we find the bug ourselves? When my sim records a video at the video station, it doesn't show up in the inventory What happens when the bug occurs? After my sim is done recording the video and I look in the video inventory, it is not thereWhat do you expect to see? To have the video he just recorded to be in the inventory so he can edit it/post it Have you installed any customization with the game, e.g. Custom Content or Mods? Not now. I've removed them.Did this issue appear after a specific patch or change you made to your system? Neutral/Not Sure

The videos are sent to the household inventory when there are too many in the video station. You can drag out of household inventory to a floor in your house but I havent figure out how to get them to the station, a person, or back to the drone in order to use the pre recorded videos.

I am also having this problem whenever I try to record video on any kind of community lot. Whether this is a bug or by design, please fix it; I ought to be able to record video anywhere in the game that I choose.

Thanks, Crinrict! I am actually not talking about the drone, but rather the video station itself. If you put a video station on a community lot and try to record a vlog, or a beauty review, or any of the other directly-into-the-video-station videos, they do not appear in the video station's inventory; it just remains permanently empty. Similarly, if you try to transfer videos from the drone to a video station on a community lot, you will just get a message saying this can't be done and you need to go home. Essentially, while you can SHOOT videos anywhere using the drone, you cannot edit or upload them at all unless you have a video station on your home lot, because the video station itself does not work on community lots. I would love for this to be fixed, because video stations often don't make sense at home (think dorms, tiny houses, small apartments), and I would very much like to use them on the career-focused community lots I build (fashion studios, conservationist research stations, university tech centers etc) where they would make excellent supplements if they actually worked. Plus I, like many simmers, often have business owners live above their businesses with their official home lot just an empty lot as a workaround. These sims cannot even have working video stations at their homes, because their homes are technically retail lots /vet clinics / restaurants, and to have them upload videos would break immersion as all they would have is a video station in the middle of an empty lot. You see why I want this fixed.

Hi @YourCalypso have you tried replacing the video station yet ?

I also had this problem when recording a video at a retail lot. I made a club hangout at a retail lot and when my sim went to make a video it let me put a title and description but not edit the videos.

Recorded video doesn't show up in video station inventory

18 Replies

crinrict
Hero+
7 years ago
Hi @YourCalypso

have you tried replacing the video station yet ?
Gloxinia19
New Scout
7 years ago
I also had this problem when recording a video at a retail lot. I made a club hangout at a retail lot and when my sim went to make a video it let me put a title and description but not edit the videos.
crinrict
Hero+
7 years ago
@YourCalypso Are you using the station on your home lot or a different one ?
YourCalypso
7 years ago
@crinrict Im using it at a home lot. Also I sold it and bought a new one and then still happened after recording about 5 or so videos on it.
Sometimes the review items (Beauty, toys) will stay on the table and not let me do another until I delete the item, which I read has happened to others as well.
crinrict
Hero+
7 years ago
The review items staying is something I see as well. It mostly happens if the recording of that video gets canceled for any reason but otherwise the station worked fine for me last time I used it.

Are you saying it works for 5 videos or so after buying a new one and then not ?
crinrict
Hero+
7 years ago
Hi @YourCalypso

are you still having issues with this ?
crinrict
Hero+
7 years ago
Moving this to tech issues for further troubleshooting and info
bewitching1
Rising Adventurer
7 years ago
The videos are sent to the household inventory when there are too many in the video station. You can drag out of household inventory to a floor in your house but I havent figure out how to get them to the station, a person, or back to the drone in order to use the pre recorded videos.
rachelwolfe
New Hotshot
5 years ago
I am also having this problem whenever I try to record video on any kind of community lot. Whether this is a bug or by design, please fix it; I ought to be able to record video anywhere in the game that I choose.
crinrict
Hero+
5 years ago
@rachelwolfe Tested a community lot and the recording appeared in the drone's inventory as it should.

Does it appear normally when you record on your home lot ?