Sermon Clip Maker for Churches

Turn a full sermon recording into short clips people watch.

LumiClip is a sermon clip maker built for churches. Upload a full service or sermon recording, or paste a YouTube or Vimeo link, and the AI finds the strongest moments, adds captions, and reframes them to vertical for YouTube Shorts, Reels, TikTok, and Facebook. You review the suggestions and export.

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Paste a YouTube or Vimeo link to your service, or upload an MP4 from ProPresenter, OBS, or Zoom

Long video turned into vertical short clips

SEEN ON TIKTOK, REELS & SHORTS

+100K Clips Generated

Every clip below was generated by LumiClip and posted by creators like you — no edits, no retouching.

The problem this page solves

Most of a 40-minute sermon never reaches people online.

Churches record a full service every week — 30 to 45 minutes of preaching, plus worship, testimonies, and announcements. That full recording is important for people who missed the service, but very few people online will watch a 40-minute horizontal video. The moments most likely to reach someone new — a clear statement of the gospel, a memorable illustration, a single verse explained well — are buried inside the long file.

A sermon clip maker cuts those moments out of the full recording and formats them for the places people actually scroll. LumiClip transcribes the service, identifies the segments worth sharing, reframes them to vertical 9:16, and burns in accurate captions. One Sunday recording typically produces six to ten short clips — enough to post through the week without editing anything by hand.

How it works

From full service recording to shareable clips in three steps

No timeline editing and no video experience required. A volunteer can do the whole process in a few minutes.

  1. 1. Add your sermon recording

    Paste a YouTube or Vimeo link to your livestream or uploaded service, or upload an MP4 exported from ProPresenter, OBS, Zoom, or your camera. Horizontal service recordings are fine — LumiClip reframes them to vertical.

  2. 2. AI transcribes and finds the moments worth clipping

    LumiClip transcribes the full sermon and identifies self-contained segments: the main point, a scripture explained, an illustration or story, and clear calls to response — the parts that make sense to someone who did not watch the whole service.

  3. 3. Review, caption, and export

    Preview each suggested clip, adjust the start and end if you want, confirm the captions, and export. Download the vertical files or send them to YouTube Shorts, Instagram and Facebook Reels, and TikTok.

What the tool does

Built for the way churches record and publish

Every feature exists to get the message from a long Sunday recording to a short clip a first-time viewer will finish.

Finds self-contained, quotable moments

The AI looks for segments that stand on their own — a verse explained, a story, a clear application, a call to response — instead of cutting at random. These are the moments most likely to hold a viewer who has never heard of your church.

Horizontal to vertical (9:16) reframing

Church cameras record wide. LumiClip converts each clip to vertical and keeps the speaker centered, so a stage-wide service shot becomes a clip that fills a phone screen on Shorts, Reels, and TikTok.

Accurate captions for church vocabulary

Captions are generated automatically and handle book and chapter names, theological terms, and proper nouns. You can correct any word before export. Most short-form viewers watch on mute, so on-screen captions are what carry the message.

Works with YouTube, Vimeo, and file uploads

Paste a link to your existing livestream or upload the raw file from ProPresenter, OBS, Zoom, or a camera. You do not need to re-export or download your own YouTube video first.

Multiple clips from one recording

A single sermon usually yields six to ten clips. That is enough short-form content to post several times across the week from one Sunday, without editing each one from scratch.

Add your church name and titling

Put the church name, sermon title, or a scripture reference on each clip so viewers know the source and where to find the full message. Consistent titling helps clips build recognition over time.

Why churches clip sermons

Reach more people, spend less time, stay consistent

Clipping sermons is not about chasing views. It is the most direct way to get the message in front of people who will never open a 40-minute video.

Reach
Meet people where they scroll

Short vertical clips are what get distributed on Shorts, Reels, and TikTok. A 30-second clip of one clear point reaches far more people than the full-length service upload.

Time
Minutes instead of hours

Manually cutting and captioning clips can take a volunteer hours every week. The AI does the first pass, so the media team only reviews and approves.

Consistency
A week of content from one Sunday

One recording produces enough clips to post through the week. Consistent posting is what grows a church's online presence, and it no longer depends on someone finding time to edit.

What churches clip

Every part of the service worth sharing

Sermon highlights

The main point, a verse explained clearly, or a memorable illustration — the parts of the message that stand on their own and invite someone to watch the full sermon.

Scripture and quote clips

Short moments built around a single verse or a quotable line, captioned on screen so they carry the message even when watched on mute.

Testimonies and baptisms

Cut a testimony or baptism moment from the service recording into a shareable clip, with the person's story captioned and framed for vertical feeds.

Worship moments

Pull a moment of worship or a specific song section from the recording for a clip that gives people a feel for a Sunday gathering.

Announcements and invitations

Turn an event invitation, small-group push, or serve-team ask from the platform into a short clip you can post and pin for the week.

Multi-campus and midweek content

Clip from any recorded gathering — multiple campuses, Bible studies, or midweek services — so every recording your church already makes becomes shareable content.

Sermon clip maker: common questions

A sermon clip maker is a tool that takes a full sermon or service recording and produces short, self-contained clips formatted for social media. LumiClip transcribes the recording, identifies the strongest moments, reframes them to vertical 9:16, and adds captions, so a 40-minute service becomes several short clips ready for YouTube Shorts, Reels, TikTok, and Facebook.
For short-form platforms, most sermon clips work best between 15 and 60 seconds, and up to about 90 seconds for a complete story or illustration. The goal is one clear idea per clip. LumiClip suggests natural start and end points around a single point, and you can trim them before exporting.
A typical 30 to 45 minute sermon produces about six to ten usable clips, depending on how many self-contained moments the message contains. That is generally enough to post short-form content several times across the week from a single Sunday recording.
The clips are vertical 9:16 videos suitable for YouTube Shorts, Instagram Reels, Facebook Reels, and TikTok. You can download the files to upload manually or post them wherever your church already has an audience.
Yes. Paste the YouTube or Vimeo link to your recorded livestream or uploaded service, and LumiClip pulls the video directly. You do not need to download your own video first. You can also upload an MP4 if you prefer.
Yes. LumiClip reframes horizontal recordings to vertical 9:16 and keeps the speaker centered, so a wide stage shot becomes a clip that fills a phone screen. This is one of the main reasons churches use a clip maker rather than posting the raw horizontal file.
Yes. Captions are generated automatically from the sermon audio and displayed on each clip. You can correct any word — including book and chapter names, theological terms, and proper nouns — before you export. Captions matter because most people watch short-form video with the sound off.
LumiClip accepts standard MP4 video exports and links from YouTube and Vimeo. That covers recordings from ProPresenter, OBS, Zoom, and most cameras and switchers churches use for livestreaming.
Focus on moments that make sense to someone who did not watch the full service: a single verse explained clearly, a memorable story or illustration, a clear statement of the gospel, or a call to response. LumiClip surfaces these automatically, and you decide which suggested clips to keep.
Clips cut from the preaching portion of a service usually contain only spoken word. If a clip includes worship music, licensing for that music is governed by your church's own agreements, the same as for your full livestream — LumiClip does not grant any music rights. Many churches keep sermon clips to the spoken teaching to avoid this question entirely.
No. The workflow is add a recording, review the clips the AI suggests, confirm the captions, and export. There is no timeline to edit and no software to learn, so a volunteer on the media team can produce a week of clips in a few minutes.
Your uploaded recordings and generated clips are private to your workspace. You control what gets exported and shared, source files can be deleted at any time, and recordings are not used to train public models.

Turn this Sunday's sermon into a week of clips

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