Most churches already livestream Sunday service — and that recording just sits there with no second life. Paste the YouTube link (a YouTube Live archive is just a YouTube link once the stream ends) or upload the recording, and the AI scans for the sermon portion, skips worship and announcements, finds 5–7 shareable moments, reframes them vertical, and exports Reels/Shorts/TikTok-ready clips.
You already capture every Sunday on YouTube Live or Facebook. Turning that 90-minute archive into something people will actually watch is the hard part.
Your YouTube Live recording is worship + announcements + sermon. No one is going to scrub through an hour and a half to find the moment worth sharing.
Downloading the livestream to edit locally — finding the sermon section, cutting clips, reframing vertical, captioning — wastes a full afternoon every single Sunday.
Your media volunteers don't know how to find the sermon section in a 90-minute file, let alone clip it, caption it, and post it across three platforms.
Five steps. Service ends, you paste the YouTube link or drop in the file, and clips are queued before you've packed up the foyer.
Add Sunday's recording
Paste the YouTube link — a YouTube Live archive counts — or upload the file your platform gives you. Two ways in, both take about thirty seconds.
Sermon Clips pulls the recording
Paste a YouTube link and we download the archive in the background — nothing to babysit. Uploading a file instead? It resumes part-by-part if your connection hiccups.
AI auto-detects the sermon portion
The AI recognizes intro music, announcements, and worship by their audio profile and skips them — focusing only on the spoken teaching section so clips come from the sermon, not the offering pitch.
Best moments + vertical reframe + captions
AI finds 5–7 shareable moments, reframes them 9:16 with the speaker face-tracked and centered, and burns in accuracy-checked captions automatically.
Clips ready by Sunday afternoon
Download TikTok, Instagram Reels, and YouTube Shorts versions. Post the first one same-day while attention is highest; schedule the rest across the week.
Once your clips are ready, the posting cadence determines whether they reach anyone. Here's what consistently works for churches.
Post same-day while attention is highest
The Sunday-afternoon window is when your congregation is still talking about service. Drop the first clip same-day — it gets the warmest reception and the best initial engagement signal to the algorithm.
Lead with the strongest message moment
Save the testimony or emotional story for Monday. Your first post should be the strongest message moment — the one-liner, the challenging truth, the sentence people will text each other.
Post the worship moment Tuesday
People scroll worship content later in the week when they're reflecting on Sunday. Tuesday/Wednesday is the sweet spot for the worship clip — not Sunday afternoon.
Text-overlay the scripture reference
Burning the scripture reference into the clip drives bibles.com and YouVersion search traffic. Viewers tap the verse, look it up, and stay in the message — a real engagement compounder.
Schedule followups Wed/Thu/Fri
Don't dump all 5–7 clips on Sunday. Stagger the followup clips across Wed/Thu/Fri to ride the algorithm boost from the first post and stay in feed all week.
Archive clips for series highlight reels
Keep last week's clips in your library. When the sermon series wraps, you have ready-made source material for a series highlight reel without re-editing anything.
YouTube link — no re-upload
Paste a YouTube or YouTube Live archive link and we pull the recording ourselves. Streaming somewhere else? Upload the file — resumable, up to 5GB.
Auto-detects the sermon portion
AI distinguishes worship and announcements from spoken teaching by audio profile so clips come from the sermon, not the offering pitch.
Vertical reframe + burned-in captions
Horizontal livestream becomes 9:16 with face-tracking. Auto-generated, accuracy-checked captions are burned into every clip.
5–7 clips free, unlimited on paid
Free tier gets 5–7 AI-selected clips per sermon. Paid plans unlock unlimited clip generation and back-catalog processing.
Works on livestreams up to 4 hours (free)
Most Sunday livestreams run 90–120 minutes. Free tier handles archives up to 4 hours — covering multi-service Sundays and long-form teaching.
Any horizontal aspect ratio
16:9, 4:3, ultra-wide multi-cam — if your livestream is horizontal, the reframe pipeline handles it. No need to standardize your production setup.
Paste the YouTube link or upload the file. Get 5–7 vertical, captioned clips ready to post. No cost, no commitment.
Get Free ClipsCan sermon-clips work directly with Boxcast, Resi, or StreamYard?
Not by URL. We pull directly from YouTube — including a YouTube Live archive, which is just a normal YouTube link once the stream ends. For Boxcast, Resi, StreamYard, Vimeo, or Facebook Live, download the recording from your platform and upload the file; those platforms don't expose the video file to us. Many churches simplest path is to also publish the service to YouTube, then paste that link.
What if my livestream includes worship before the sermon?
The AI auto-detects the sermon section based on the audio profile and timestamps — it recognizes the shift from worship music and announcements into spoken teaching and focuses clip generation on that portion. You can also manually trim the start and end points in the dashboard if you want tighter control over which section gets analyzed.
How long after the livestream ends are clips ready?
10–25 minutes typically — depends on sermon length. A 30-minute sermon usually finishes in around 15 minutes; a 60-minute sermon takes closer to 20–25. If your service ends at noon, your clips are queued and ready to review by 12:30pm and posted by 3pm at the latest.
Will sermon-clips work if my livestream is private?
Yes — download the recording from your platform and upload the MP4 directly. That path works no matter how the stream was published. Pasting a YouTube link instead requires the video to be public or unlisted; a fully private video can't be fetched, so upload the file in that case.