Most churches already livestream Sunday service to YouTube Live or Facebook — and that recording just sits there with no second life. Sermon Clips ingests the YouTube, Facebook, or livestream URL directly (no re-upload), the AI scans for the sermon portion and skips worship and announcements, then 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. Zero re-uploads. Service ends, you paste a link, clips are queued before you've packed up the foyer.
Paste your livestream URL
Drop your YouTube Live, Facebook Live, Boxcast, Resi, or Streamyard URL into the dashboard. No file download, no re-upload — just the public archive link.
Sermon Clips pulls the recording
The system downloads the livestream archive directly from the platform in the background. You don't need to wait or babysit the upload.
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.
Direct URL ingest — no re-upload
Paste a YouTube Live, Facebook Live, Boxcast, Resi, or Streamyard URL. Sermon Clips pulls the archive directly from the platform.
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.
Drop your YouTube Live, Facebook, or Boxcast link. Get 5–7 vertical, captioned clips ready to post. No cost, no commitment.
Get Free ClipsCan sermon-clips work directly with Boxcast or Resi?
Yes — paste the public archive URL, same as YouTube. Sermon Clips ingests the recording directly from Boxcast, Resi, Streamyard, Facebook Live, and YouTube Live without requiring you to download and re-upload anything. If the archive page is publicly accessible, the system can pull it.
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 for file upload — download the recording from your platform and upload the MP4 directly. If your YouTube Live archive is unlisted or private, use the file-download flow instead of the URL flow. The URL ingest path requires the archive to be publicly accessible to YouTube/Facebook/Boxcast.