How a sermon becomes five reels
You paste one link. The engine does the rest until the review, where you decide what gets shared.
Photos are AI-generated illustrations, not a real church.
Your part takes about ten minutes.
Paste the link
Use the YouTube link to the sermon your church already shares. Nothing to install and no new camera.
Five moments are chosen
The transcript and the audio are read together, so a quiet invitation can be chosen over the loudest thirty seconds. Each moment runs about 25 to 40 seconds and ends on a full sentence.
Each one is made vertical
The frame follows the speaker, cuts land on phrase boundaries, and word-timed captions are burned in at 1080 by 1920.
You approve what goes out
Watch each reel, fix a word the transcript misheard, keep the ones you like and download them. Nothing is shared until you approve it.
The six stages
What the engine does between your link and the five reels.
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Bring the recording
Paste the YouTube link to Sunday's sermon on your channel. No new camera, no new routine.
- 2
We listen to the whole thing
The sermon is transcribed with a timestamp on every word, and the audio is read for pauses, pace and the room's response. Worship music is separated out so it is never mistaken for the sermon.
- 3
Five moments are chosen
The transcript and those audio signals are read together to pick five windows of roughly 25 to 40 seconds, each with a hook line, one word to emphasise, and the scripture reference if it was spoken.
- 4
Each moment is made vertical
The frame follows the speaker rather than the front row, cuts land on phrase boundaries instead of mid sentence, and word timed captions are burned in at 1080 by 1920. The voice is cleaned and levels are balanced for phone speakers.
- 5
You have the final say
Watch the five reels, correct any word the transcript misheard, approve what you are happy with and leave the rest. Nothing is posted without you.
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Download and share
Download the MP4, the captions file and the cover image, and post them wherever your church already shares. Scheduling approved reels to YouTube Shorts across the week, with titles, descriptions and hashtags prepared for you, is coming soon on Publish.
How long it takes. A 30 minute sermon takes about 28 minutes of machine time today, and the queue is busiest on Sunday night. Plan on your reels being ready within the hour rather than while you wait.
The speaker stays in the frame.
Scroll to watch a landscape recording become a vertical reel. The crop follows the person speaking, not the middle of the stage.
The frame follows the speaker
The engine tracks the speaker through the whole moment, so a wide shot does not lock onto someone in the front row.
Cuts fall between sentences
The shot moves between medium, close and wide at the end of a phrase, never in the middle of a word.
Each word is captioned as it is spoken
Every word has its own start and end time, so the highlight moves with the voice.
16:9 recording9:16 reelHow the five moments are chosen
Loudness alone would pick the shouting. Reading the transcript as well lets a quiet invitation be chosen too.
What the transcript contributes
Rhetorical questions, repeated phrases, direct address, and the sentences where a thought completes. Cuts land on phrase boundaries, so a reel does not start mid clause.
What the audio contributes
Pace, pitch range, the length of a pause, and the room responding. Music is classified first so worship is never mistaken for applause, and the worship block is left out of the sermon range.
What comes back with each moment
A window of roughly 25 to 40 seconds, a hook line, one word to emphasise with its timestamp, and the scripture reference if it was spoken aloud.
What happens when it misses
You say what you were looking for and a different set is chosen. Approved and downloaded reels from the earlier set are kept.
Captions timed to every word.
A lot of short video is watched with the sound off, so the captions carry the message. Pick a caption style below to see it on a reel.
Bold. Heavy type. The spoken word is highlighted as it is said.
Audio cleaned up for phone speakers
The engine reduces background noise and evens out the levels, so the preacher is easy to follow on a phone.
- Less background noise.
- Quiet and loud phrases brought to an even level.
- Any music sits under the voice.
What makes a recording work well
Clear speech, a visible speaker and a steady camera. A broadcast layout with lower thirds, a split screen with slides, or muddy audio will affect the result, and we would rather tell you that up front than after your first sermon.