Sermon Clip Maker

• Find the moment in the transcript

  EchoWave transcribes the whole sermon with word-level timestamps, so the fastest way to find a moment is to search for the phrase you remember. Highlight the sentences you want to keep, delete the rest, and the video cuts itself to match. No scrubbing through 40 minutes of footage at double speed.

• A sermon clip maker built for muted feeds

  Most people scroll Reels and Shorts with the sound off, so captions decide if anyone hears the message. Pick from 176 caption presets, including word-by-word karaoke styles with active-word fill, then adjust color and emphasis per word. The same engine drives our standalone caption generator.

• Vertical framing with manual crop and zoom

  Switch the canvas to 9:16, then crop and scale the wide stage shot so your pastor stays centered. There is no AI auto-reframe, so you place the framing yourself, and keyframed zoom pops add movement exactly where the delivery lands. For pure format changes, see the vertical video converter.

• Title text that stops the scroll

  The first three seconds decide the view, so open with a title card: the series name, the question the clip answers, or the verse reference. EchoWave ships 81 text animations (30 entrance, 25 exit, 26 loop) and lets you use your church's own uploaded fonts.

• One template, every week

  Build the layout once: title position, caption preset, logo corner, end card. Save it as a template with placeholders, and next Sunday whoever is on duty replaces the media while the styling carries over. Templates can even be filled and rendered in bulk from a CSV.

• Tighten the cut

  Preachers breathe, pause and circle back, which works live and drags in a 45 second clip. One click removes filler words and long silences from your selection, and 56 transitions cover any joins. Speed control from 0.25x to 4x handles the rest.

• Captions in every language your church speaks

  Translate subtitles into 86 languages, or run bilingual captions that show two languages at once. For multilingual congregations, one clip can serve every service without re-editing.

• Turn the same moment into a podcast teaser

  If the sermon also goes out as a podcast, reuse the clip as an audiogram with one of 93 music visualizer styles. Our podcast clip maker covers that workflow end to end.

1. 1

   Upload the sermon recording

   Drag in the full service file as MP4, MOV, WebM or AVI. EchoWave runs in Chrome, Edge, Firefox and Safari, and rendering happens on a cloud farm, so the old church office laptop works fine.

2. 2

   Cut the moment from the transcript

   Open the transcript panel and search for the line you want. Select it, delete everything around it, then trim the ends on the timeline so the clip starts mid-energy rather than mid-setup.

3. 3

   Caption, frame and title it

   Apply a karaoke caption preset, switch the canvas to 9:16, and crop the shot so the speaker fills the frame. Add an opening title card and your church logo in a corner.

4. 4

   Export and post

   Render in the cloud and download an HD MP4 free, with a small removable EchoWave watermark badge and a short branded end card. Paid plans remove the badge and raise quality to 1080p and up to 4K. Post it to Reels, TikTok and Shorts from your phone, since EchoWave does not publish to social accounts directly.

• 9:16 Vertical

  • Reels
  • TikTok
  • Shorts
• 1:1 Square

  • Instagram feed
  • Facebook
• 16:9 Landscape

  • YouTube
  • Church website

• Weekly message recaps

  Every Monday, pull the strongest 45 seconds from Sunday and post it with the series hashtag. Transcript search makes this a short weekly task instead of an afternoon of scrubbing.

• Series promos

  Cut three or four moments from week one of a new series into a single teaser with transitions and a title card. Post it midweek to set up the next Sunday.

• Scripture moments

  Clip the reading of a key verse and put the reference on screen with an animated text layer. These work well as quiet, single-idea posts between bigger clips.

• Testimonies and baptisms

  Celebration moments travel further than any announcement graphic. Clip them from the livestream recording, caption the audio, and use the blur region tool on anyone who has not consented to appear.

• Podcast audiograms

  Feed the sermon audio into a waveform visualizer and export square or vertical audiograms. Each one points listeners to the full episode.

• Livestream archive highlights

  Old sermons are a content library sitting in your channel. Work through the archive one message at a time and post a steady drip of clips, each linking back to the full video.

Based on each tool's public pages as of July 2026. Plans and features change often, so check current pricing before committing your ministry budget.