Caption generator
Sermon Clips With Captions
A Sunday service holds several short sermon clips, and nobody on a volunteer media team has time to scrub through two hours to find them. Upload the full recording to Smart-Clips, up to 120 minutes as an MP4 or MOV, and it suggests 15 to 90 second moments, reframes them to vertical 9:16 for Shorts, Reels and TikTok, and scores each one with a short reason. A prompt such as "the main point about forgiveness" steers it. Open the clips worth posting in the caption editor, correct names and verse references, choose a readable style and export each one as an MP4 with the captions burned in. English sermons work. Smart-Clips uses its own minute balance for the recording, and each clip you caption uses caption minutes for its length; caption packs start at $4 (₹49 in India, €4 in the euro area).
Start with 3 free minutes. Watermark-free export comes with every paid pack.
English subtitle example: This is a preview of the subtitle design Please transcribe to get your video
What the captions look like
A clip that opens on a full thought
You cannot pour grace out of an empty cup.
A moment that starts with a complete sentence works on a muted feed. Each suggested clip shows a score out of 100 and the reason it was picked.
Verse reference
Turn with me to Romans 8:28.
Check how the draft wrote the reference and change it to the form your church puts on screen.
Name from Scripture
Nehemiah did not wait for permission to rebuild.
Biblical names and place names are the words to read twice. Fix the spelling once and look for it again later in the clip.
A line meant for the room
If that is you this morning, stay for prayer after the service.
Lines spoken to the people in the building rarely stand alone online. Trim the clip before them or leave it out.
What you get
- One upload of the whole service instead of hours of scrubbing for moments
- Clips reframed to 9:16 for Shorts, Reels and TikTok from a landscape service recording
- A prompt to look for a theme, a passage or the sermon's main point
- Free styles that stay readable on a phone, including the serif Story style and the boxed Newsroom style
- A clear cost split: clip minutes for the recording, caption minutes only for the clips you style
Where it helps
- Volunteer media teams posting midweek clips from Sunday's sermon
- Pastors sharing the one point they most want remembered as a Short or Reel
- Youth ministries cutting quick clips from evening services
- Conference sessions and guest preachers recorded in full
How it works
How it works
Step 1
Export the full service recording
Save it as an MP4 or MOV from your camera, switcher or streaming software. Smart-Clips takes up to 120 minutes; for a longer service, trim the countdown or announcements first.
Step 2
Upload to Smart-Clips and set the options
Choose English or Auto-detect as the spoken language, a clip length (Auto for 15 to 90 seconds, or 15, 30, 45 or 60) and, if you like, a "Find clips about…" prompt naming a theme or passage.
Step 3
Review the suggested clips
Each clip comes back vertical, with a score and a reason. Keep the ones that make sense on their own and drop those that lean on a slide or an earlier point.
Step 4
Open your picks in the caption editor
Select the clips and choose Add pro subtitles. Correct names, verse references and quotes, then pick a readable style such as Story or Newsroom, both free.
Step 5
Export and post through the week
Export each clip, download it, and post it from your phone to YouTube Shorts, Instagram Reels, TikTok or Facebook. Caption projects are kept for 3, 7 or 15 days depending on the pack.
Choose your spoken language
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Questions
Can it make clips from a full church service?
Yes. Smart-Clips takes one MP4 or MOV recording of up to 120 minutes and suggests short vertical clips from it. If your service runs longer, trim the pre-service countdown or the announcements in your editor first.
Can I paste a YouTube or Facebook livestream link?
No. Smart-Clips needs the video file; there is no link import. Upload the recording your streaming or recording software saved.
How does it choose the moments?
Smart-Clips suggests clips and scores each one out of 100 across hook, payoff, clarity, emotion, shareability, virality and signal, with a short reason. A "Find clips about…" prompt of up to 500 characters steers it. You decide what to post.
Will Bible references and names come out right?
Do not count on it. Verse references, biblical names and place names are the words to check in every clip. Write references the way your church displays them, for example Romans 8:28, and fix any name once, then look for it again later in the clip.
Can it caption worship songs?
CapsAI is built for speech and makes no claim for sung lyrics, so choose spoken moments. Songs also raise licensing questions; check whether a short clip of a song fits your church's licence and the platform's rules before posting it.
Which languages work?
English sermons work. Captions come out in the language spoken, from English, Hinglish, Hindi, Bengali, Telugu, Marathi, Tamil, Urdu, Gujarati, Kannada and Punjabi, with no translation. Tagalog, Yoruba, Igbo and Pidgin are not supported. CapsAI's English has been used most on Indian English; for other accents, run one clip and read the draft.
What does it cost?
Smart-Clips uses its own clip minutes for the recording; the uploader shows the minutes it needs (its length, rounded up to the minute) and what you have. Each clip opened in the caption editor uses caption minutes for its length. Caption packs are paid once, from $4 (₹49 in India, €4 in the euro area) for 20 minutes, and watermark-free export comes with every paid pack.
How long are the clips, and where can I post them?
Auto gives clips of 15 to 90 seconds, or pick 15, 30, 45 or 60. YouTube Help says Shorts can be up to three minutes, and Instagram Help says reels over 3 minutes are not recommended to new audiences (both read 19 October 2026). Download each clip and post it yourself; CapsAI does not post for you.
Does it label speakers or caption a service live?
No. There are no speaker labels and no live captions. For a clip with a reader and a preacher, split the caption at the change of voice and type a name into the text if viewers need it.
How long does it take?
Processing a full service depends on its length and the queue. After that, captioning and exporting each clip takes a few minutes, plus the time spent checking names and verses.
From a full service recording to captioned clips
Most churches already record the whole service, often in landscape from the back of the room. Smart-Clips starts there: upload the file, set the spoken language to English or Auto-detect, pick a clip length, and leave Auto captions on for plain white captions burned into every clip.
The optional "Find clips about…" box is where a sermon series helps. Name the theme ("grace when you have failed"), the passage ("the prodigal son") or the main point, and Smart-Clips looks for matching moments. Select the clips that stand alone, then download them as they are or choose Add pro subtitles to open them in the full caption editor.
What to check by hand: names, verses, songs and languages
Sermons are full of words that are easy to mishear: Habakkuk, Nebuchadnezzar, Gethsemane, and references like 2 Corinthians 5:17. Read every caption against the audio, write references in the form your church uses on screen, and keep quotes from Scripture word for word as the preacher read them.
Choose spoken moments rather than worship. CapsAI makes no claim for sung lyrics, and music raises licensing questions that vary by country; the US CCLI streaming page, read 19 October 2026, describes cover for streaming or uploading services that include worship songs performed live, but does not address short clips. English sermons work; Tagalog, Yoruba, Igbo and Pidgin are not among the 11 supported languages.
A weekly routine for a church media team
Monday: export Sunday's recording and upload it to Smart-Clips with a prompt for the sermon's main point. Tuesday: pick three to five clips, open them in the caption editor, fix names and verses, and choose one style for the whole series so the clips look like they belong together. Story, a warm serif with a gold highlight on the spoken word, and Newsroom, white caps on black boxes, are both free and easy to read on a phone.
Through the week, post one clip a day from your phone. Download each final MP4 as you export it, since caption projects are kept for 3, 7 or 15 days depending on the pack, and keep the full recording yourself.