Our clip-finder reads the full transcript of your sermon and scores every segment on hook strength, emotional arc, and standalone-completeness — using Gemini to identify the moments that actually travel. It catches what you're too close to see: you wrote the message, so every line feels load-bearing. The AI sees which ones hit cold.
The bottleneck isn't editing the clip — it's locating it inside a 45-minute message in the first place.
Sitting through your own 45-minute message looking for highlights is a 90-minute task by the time you scrub back and forth. Nobody on your team has that time, week after week.
The moments YOU think are best aren't always the ones that travel. You're too close to the prep, the build, the inside jokes with your congregation. AI scores from a cold reader's perspective.
Handing the recording to an intern or volunteer rarely works — they didn't write the message, they don't know what the thesis was, and they pick clips by gut feel that misses the moments worth posting.
From upload to a ranked list of approved-and-ready clips in about 15 minutes.
Upload your sermon
Drop in a video file, paste a YouTube link, or paste a Vimeo URL. We handle the rest — no need to pre-process or trim.
AI transcribes the full message
We transcribe the sermon end-to-end with speaker timestamps. Transcription is included free — you don't get billed for this step on any plan.
AI scores every segment
Gemini reads the transcript and scores each potential moment on hook strength, emotional arc, rhetorical structure, and standalone-completeness. Hundreds of candidate segments get ranked.
You see ranked candidates with reasons
Each candidate shows its timestamp, score, and a one-line reason — 'strong rhetorical question,' 'vulnerable confession,' 'counter-cultural inversion,' 'practical answer to a felt need.' You're never guessing why a clip was chosen.
Approve, edit, or reject in seconds
Tap through the candidates. Approve the ones you want, reject the ones that don't land, and edit start/end timestamps with the trim slider for the ones that need a small adjustment. The AI never overrides you — you always have the final say.
The clip-finder is trained on the rhetorical patterns that consistently travel on social — not arbitrary audio peaks or volume spikes.
The rhetorical question
“What if the thing you’re terrified of is actually the door?” Questions that name a universal experience drive the highest comment and save rates across every platform.
The one-liner that lands
The single sentence that compresses the whole point of the message into 8 seconds. The line you’d tweet. The AI is tuned to recognize compression density.
The story turn
The moment in a personal story where the meaning flips — the unexpected outcome, the realization mid-conflict. Story turns outperform story setups by 4–5x in retention.
The vulnerable confession
When you name something you got wrong, struggled with, or were afraid to admit. Vulnerability scores extremely high for shares — it’s the rarest signal in a sermon and the AI watches for it specifically.
The counter-cultural inversion
The moment that flips a cultural script: “Popularity isn’t safety. It’s pressure.” Inversions get screenshotted, quote-tweeted, and stitched at higher rates than any other clip type.
The practical answer to a real problem
Direct, actionable answers to questions your people are actually searching: “What do I do when I can’t forgive someone?” Practical-answer clips drive the most search-based discovery on YouTube Shorts.
Transcript-aware, not audio-volume
Most “AI clip” tools just find audio peaks. Ours reads the actual words. A whispered confession scores higher than a loud joke, because the content matters — not the dB level.
Context-preserving boundaries
The AI never cuts mid-sentence or mid-thought. Clip start and end points are chosen at natural pause points so every clip plays as a complete idea, not a fragment.
Redundancy filtering
You won’t get five versions of the same moment. The AI clusters similar segments and only returns the best one from each cluster — so your candidate list is diverse, not repetitive.
Ranked by hook strength
Candidates are returned in priority order. The top 3 are usually the strongest — if you only have time to approve a handful, you can trust the ranking and ship.
Customizable clip count
Ask for 5 clips or 15. The AI returns exactly the number you want, ranked highest-first. Most pastors land on 7–10 per sermon as the sweet spot for a week of posting.
Human-overridable, always
The AI proposes — you decide. Reject any candidate in one click, edit start/end timestamps with the trim slider, or add a candidate the AI missed. You’re never locked into what it returned.
Upload one message. Let the AI find the 7 moments worth posting. Free, no card required, ready in about 15 minutes.
Get Free ClipsDoes the AI ever pick weird moments?
Occasionally, yes. The AI scores well above human-baseline on average, but it's not perfect — sometimes it surfaces a moment that needed more setup, or a line that lands flat without the previous 90 seconds. That's exactly why the human review pass is intentional. Rejecting a clip is one click, and the AI uses that signal nowhere — you're never penalized for being picky. Most pastors approve 70–85% of what the AI returns and reject the rest in under 30 seconds per clip.
Can I tell the AI what kinds of clips to find?
Yes, on paid tiers. You can give the AI topic or theme hints — for example, 'prioritize moments about anxiety,' 'find anything that names a cultural lie,' or 'only return clips with a clear scripture reference.' The AI weights its scoring toward those signals while still requiring standalone completeness and hook strength. Free tier returns the AI's general-purpose top picks without theme hinting, which works well for most sermons.
Does it work on non-English sermons?
Yes. The clip-finder handles 30+ languages including Spanish, Portuguese, Korean, Mandarin, French, German, Tagalog, Vietnamese, and Arabic. The transcription model is multilingual, and the moment-scoring model understands rhetorical structure, emotional arc, and standalone-completeness across languages — not just English. Pastors preaching in Spanish or Portuguese report comparable accuracy to English-language sermons.
What if my sermon doesn't have any "clippable" moments?
The AI always returns its best candidates ranked by score, even if none of them are exceptional. If the top candidate scored a 6/10 instead of a 9/10, you'll see that in the ranking and can decide whether to post anyway, reupload a different cut, or upload a different message entirely. Some teaching styles (heavy exposition, slow build, long quotations) produce fewer standalone moments — that's a content reality, not an AI failure. The scores are honest signal so you can make that call quickly.