Built for church media teams

An AI clipper for churches that a volunteer can run on Monday morning.

Point LumiClip at Sunday's livestream and it finds the moments worth sharing, reframes them vertical on the speaker, and captions them. No editor on staff, no per-seat licence, no editing skill required. Free to start, $9.99/month when you're ready.

Clip Sunday's Service Free

Long video turned into vertical short clips

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“I used to spend Sunday nights clipping my podcast myself. Now I leave LumiClip pointed at the channel and there's 5-6 clips posted by Monday morning. It just keeps working.”

Jordan M.

Podcast host

“We clip for 4 different creators, and auto-publish is the whole reason we switched. Set the schedule once per client and forget it — no more intern babysitting uploads.”

Priya R.

Social media agency

“Was skeptical about the 'watches your channel' thing, but it's clipped streams I didn't even remember happened. One got 40k views and I found out from the notification, not from doing anything.”

Devon T.

Twitch streamer

The problem isn't the sermon. It's the Monday.

Most churches have the content. What they don't have is an editor.

A church produces more video than almost any small organisation — 52 services a year, plus midweek teaching, worship sets, testimonies, kids and youth ministry, and announcements. Almost all of it is recorded. Almost none of it gets clipped, because clipping is the one step that needs a skilled human at a timeline, and the media team is usually one part-time staffer and a rotation of volunteers.

LumiClip is the clipper for that team. It works from the livestream link you already have, picks the moments, crops them to vertical while tracking whoever is speaking, and writes the captions. A volunteer can produce a week of clips between services without ever opening editing software — and if a clip is cut two seconds early, they fix that clip instead of re-running the whole service.

Why church teams pick it

Three reasons this works for a church, not just a creator

Church media has constraints most AI clip tools quietly ignore.

Priced for a church budget

$9.99/month covers a weekly service — no per-seat licensing, no annual contract, no quote form. Start on the free tier with 60 credits and no credit card, so you can show the team real clips from your own service before asking anyone to approve a spend.

A volunteer can run it

Paste the YouTube or livestream link, wait, review the clips. There's no timeline to learn and no editing skill assumed. When a volunteer rotates off, the next one is productive the same morning — which is the actual reason most church clipping efforts die.

Built for a weekly cadence

52 services a year is a treadmill, not a project. One credit is one minute of source video, so a 70-minute service costs 70 credits regardless of how many clips it produces. Starter's 180 credits/month covers a weekly service with room for midweek teaching.

How it works

From Sunday's livestream to a week of clips

Three steps, no editing software, and nothing to install.

Paste the livestream link
If your service goes to YouTube — as most do — just paste the link. You can also paste a Google Drive share link or upload the recording directly. There's no need to export a separate file from your streaming platform first.
The AI finds and reframes the moments
It scores the transcript together with speaker energy to find the lines that actually land, then crops each clip to 9:16 while tracking whoever is speaking — so the preacher stays centred instead of drifting out of a fixed crop when they walk the stage.
Review, fix, and publish
Clips come back ranked. Trim a lead-in, retype a caption, add your church's branding, then publish straight to the church's TikTok, Reels, Shorts, or Facebook — or schedule them across the week so the feed stays alive between Sundays.

What it does

The parts that matter for a service recording

A church service is not a podcast, and the failure modes are different.

Speaker tracking for a preacher who moves

Preachers walk. A fixed centre crop loses them the moment they step toward the lectern or the far side of the stage. Active-speaker tracking follows whoever is talking, so the vertical frame stays on the person rather than on an empty patch of platform.

Captions that survive silent autoplay

Most social video is watched muted. Word-level captions are generated automatically and burned into the clip, so a testimony or a sermon point still lands for someone scrolling with the sound off.

Steer it at what you want to clip

Tell it in plain English — "find the moments about generosity", "clip the testimony", "only the sermon, not the announcements" — and it re-ranks candidates against that instruction instead of guessing what a church wants.

Fix a clip without re-running the service

Every clip opens in a scene editor. Trim, extend, retype a caption, swap the layout, add the church logo — then re-render just that clip. Credits go into next week's service, not into re-processing this one.

What changes

A feed that stays alive between Sundays.

The practical outcome, measured in volunteer hours and in what the church budget actually absorbs.

$9.99

Per month, all-in

180 credits — enough for a weekly service plus midweek teaching. No per-seat cost, so adding a second volunteer costs nothing.

Monday

Clips ready, not queued

The clipping step stops being the bottleneck that pushes Sunday's content to Thursday, or off the calendar entirely.

Zero

Editing skill required

No timeline, no keyframes, no software to install. The handover to the next volunteer is a login, not a training session.

What churches clip

It's not only the sermon

The sermon is the obvious one. These are the clips churches actually get engagement from.

Sermon points

The three or four moments where the message lands. Steer the AI at the teaching and it skips the welcome, the notices, and the offering.

Testimonies

Often the highest-engagement clip a church posts all month, and usually the one that never gets cut because it sits 40 minutes into a recording nobody has time to scrub.

Worship moments

A short worship clip is powerful — but check the music licensing question in the FAQ below before you post one, because this is where churches get flagged.

Kids and youth ministry

Midweek and youth-service recordings clip the same way. Parents share these, and they reach households the Sunday feed doesn't.

Announcements and invites

A 20-second vertical invite to an event outperforms a graphic. Clip it straight from the service instead of filming it again.

Multi-campus teams

Each campus's stream is just another link. One account, one credit pool, and a shared brand kit so every campus posts in the same visual language.

Feature by feature

More of what the media team gets

Small things that decide whether the workflow survives past month two.

Works from your livestream

Paste the YouTube link for the service. No separate export from your streaming platform, no waiting on a file transfer.

Automatic 9:16 reframing

Horizontal service footage becomes vertical with the speaker tracked, not a static centre crop that loses them.

Auto-captions

Word-level subtitles burned in, so clips work for muted scrolling and for hard-of-hearing members.

Church brand kit

Logo, colours, and lower thirds applied consistently, so every volunteer's clips look like the same church.

Schedule the week

Queue clips across TikTok, Reels, Shorts, LinkedIn, and Facebook up to 30 days out — post through the week, not all at once.

Trim and extend

Pull in the setup line the AI missed, or hold the final beat a second longer. No regeneration needed.

Full-service or sermon only

Clip the whole recording, or point the AI at just the teaching block and let it ignore the rest.

Automate it entirely

Point the automation agent at the church's YouTube channel and new services get clipped and published without anyone triggering it.

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What does it cost a church?

Free to start. $9.99/month for a weekly service.

One credit is one minute of source video — a 70-minute service costs 70 credits, however many clips it produces. No per-seat pricing, so the whole media team can share one account.

Free

Show the team real clips first

$0/month

60 credits to start — no credit card
Enough for roughly one service
AI clip detection, captions, 9:16 reframing
Full scene editor access

Starter

For a church with a weekly service

$9.99/month

180 credits per month (~3 hours of recording)
1080p exports, watermark-free
Church brand kit — logo, colours, lower thirds
Publish to TikTok, Reels, Shorts, Facebook

Pro

For multi-campus and daily ministry content

$24.99/month

720 credits per month (~12 hours of recording)
Automation agent — auto-clip the church channel
Multiple brand kits for multiple campuses
Priority processing and API access

See full pricing and annual plans

Annual billing is $89.99/year for Starter and $239.99/year for Pro. Credits are counted per minute of source video processed, not per clip produced, so a long service that yields ten clips costs the same as one that yields three.

AI clipper for churches — FAQ

LumiClip is built for the constraint most church media teams actually have: no editor on staff. It works from your existing YouTube livestream link, finds the moments, reframes them to vertical while tracking the speaker, and captions them automatically — with no timeline to learn. Starter is $9.99/month with no per-seat cost, and the free tier gives 60 credits with no credit card so you can clip a real service before spending anything.

Be careful here — this is where churches most often get flagged. A CCLI Streaming Licence typically covers streaming your service on your own church channels, but it does not automatically clear you to post worship footage as social clips, and platforms like YouTube, Instagram, and TikTok run automated Content ID against the recording regardless of what licence you hold. The safe default is to clip teaching, testimony, and announcements, and to check your specific licence terms (and the platform's music policy) before posting worship segments. LumiClip will happily clip a worship moment; whether you're cleared to post it is a licensing question, not a software one — check with CCLI or your licensing body.

No. The workflow is paste a link, wait, review the clips. There is no timeline, no keyframes, and nothing to install — it runs in a browser. That is deliberate: church media is usually run by volunteers on rotation, so the tool has to survive a handover that's a login rather than a training session.

It depends on the service, but a typical sermon yields several usable clips, and a full service with a testimony and announcements yields more. Billing is per minute of source video, not per clip, so a 70-minute service costs 70 credits whether it produces three clips or ten — there's no penalty for asking for more.

Yes. Paste the YouTube link for the service — which is where most churches already stream — and LumiClip pulls it directly. You can also paste a Google Drive share link (set to "anyone with the link") or upload the recording. There's no need to export a separate file from your streaming platform.

Yes, and this is the part that matters most for a church. Rather than a fixed centre crop — which loses a preacher the moment they walk the stage — active-speaker tracking follows whoever is talking and keeps them in the 9:16 frame. For a two-camera setup with a speaker and the congregation, it cuts to the person speaking.

Yes. Each campus's stream is just another link into the same account, and the credit pool is shared. Pro supports multiple brand kits, so campuses can carry their own logo and colours while the underlying workflow and billing stay in one place. There is no per-seat charge, so every campus's volunteers can use the same login.

Yes. You can steer it in plain English — for example "only the sermon, not the announcements" or "find the testimony" — and it re-ranks candidate moments against that instruction. You can also trim the start and end of any clip afterwards without re-processing the service.