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Sermon Clips for Social Media

Upload Sunday's service or paste the YouTube livestream link. AI finds the moments that stand on their own and turns them into captioned vertical clips to share during the week.

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Sermon clips are short passages of a message that make sense on their own, and Exemplary AI cuts them from your recording.

Upload the service, or paste the YouTube link to the livestream once it has ended, and AI Clips finds standalone moments, such as a main point, a scripture reading or a story, then reframes each to vertical 9:16 with captions. Your media volunteers or staff review them and post to Instagram Reels, YouTube Shorts, TikTok and Facebook. Free plan: 500 one-time credits; files up to 500 MB and 30 min long; 720p video exports with a watermark.

Sermon clips at a glance

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Sources
A service video, an audio recording, or a YouTube, TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, Vimeo or X link such as your YouTube livestream
Audio-only sermons
Clips become audiograms: a waveform in one of 6 styles (Bars, Simple, Radial, Circle, Hills and Strings), captions, and a background color
Shape
Vertical 9:16 for Reels, Shorts and TikTok; 4:5 or square 1:1 for a feed post
Captions
From the transcript, in 99 languages, and editable before export
Clip length
Targets of 15, 30, 45, 60, 90 or 120 seconds; 30 seconds unless you pick another
Free plan file limits
500 one-time credits; files up to 500 MB and 30 min long
How it works

How to turn a sermon into short videos

A church service livestream link pasted into AI Clips

Beyond the clips: the rest of the week

The same upload gives you a transcript of the message, which can become a blog post, a newsletter or key takeaways for small groups. See transcription for the download formats, and AI Clips for more on how moments are picked and framed.

Post clips only of people who have agreed to appear on your channels, including guest speakers and members of the congregation who are on camera.

What it does

Made for Church Media Teams

Turn one recorded message into a week of short posts, with captions you can check before anything goes out.

Moments that make sense alone

AI looks for passages that hold together without the rest of the message, so someone who missed Sunday can follow.

Works from the livestream

Already streaming to YouTube? Paste the link after the service ends; there is no file to export from your streaming software.

Captions you can check

Captions come from the transcript, so you can fix the spelling of names, places and scripture references before export.

Audio-only recordings too

If you only record audio, clips become audiograms with a waveform, captions and a background color.

Keep going

Help the message travel beyond the recording

Keep a readable transcript, add captions to the clip, and check its vertical layout.

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Questions

Common questions

How do I make sermon clips from our YouTube livestream?
Wait until the livestream has ended, copy its YouTube link and paste it into Exemplary AI. If the recording runs longer than your plan's file limit, upload just the sermon instead.
What makes a good church sermon clip for social media?
One complete thought: a single point with its explanation, a story with its turn, or a scripture passage read in full. Check that names and references in the captions are right before you post.
Can we turn sermons into short videos if we only record audio?
Yes. Upload the MP3, WAV, M4A, AAC, FLAC or OGG file and the clips come out as audiograms: a moving waveform in one of 6 styles, captions, and a background in your church's color.
How long should sermon shorts be?
For YouTube, a Short must be square or vertical and up to 3 minutes long. Every target is 120 seconds or less, under YouTube's 3-minute limit for Shorts. A target is not a cap, so check each clip's length before you upload it as a Short. The same 9:16 file can go to Reels and TikTok.
Can volunteers make church video clips without editing experience?
Yes. The work is choosing and checking: AI does the cutting, framing and captions, and changes are made by editing the transcript text or moving a clip's start and end on the timeline.
Is the sermon clip maker free for churches?
Any church can start on the Free plan, which includes 500 one-time credits; files up to 500 MB and 30 min long; 720p video exports with a watermark. A full service often runs longer than the free file limit, so upload just the sermon or move to a paid plan.
Can we make clips from older sermons?
Yes. Any recording you still have, or any sermon already on your church's YouTube channel, can be clipped the same way, so past messages can keep feeding your social accounts.

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