AI sermon clips, captioned. From Sunday service to a week of posts.

Picture a 10:30 service that runs close to three hours with the livestream on YouTube. There's a welcome, a 40-minute worship set, announcements, the offering, a reading from Philippians 4, a 55-minute sermon on anxiety, an altar call and one more song with everyone standing. That's the recording your media team has when the lights go down.

When the stream ends, the volunteer pastes the livestream link into FilmScribe and picks Sermon / Worship Service as the content type. No downloading, no waiting on a file from the booth. If they paste the link while the stream is still live, we wait for the YouTube replay and process it right after.

Before processing, they mark the range that matters: from the scripture reading to the end of the altar call, a little over an hour. The opening worship, announcements and closing song stay out, and only that range counts against the plan. On the same screen they choose 30- to 59-second clips and, since the church is in a series on anxiety, type an instruction: "prioritize moments about anxiety and rest in God".

When processing finishes, the whole message is in text, word by word, with a timestamp on every word. Lines are split by speaker: the pastor, the member who read the passage, the worship leader who closed in prayer. Chapters arrive with titles and timestamps, from "Reading: Philippians 4:4-7" to "Invitation and prayer". On Studio, each chapter also lists the strongest moments inside it, and you can rename speakers with their real names.

Before touching the clips, a quick pass on the text pays off. The volunteer searches "Philippians" in the transcript and checks every reference. The guest pastor who prayed has a tricky last name: they fix it once and it's corrected in the captions of every clip. This is where the wrong verse dies, before it reaches anyone's feed.

The clips tab lists the candidates, each with a 0 to 100 score and a moment type. A teaching moment about the letter written from prison scores 94; an opening line that works as a hook, 89; the altar call invitation, 86. They pick three for the week, pull the start of one back by two words, turn on pause removal at the balanced level and check the vertical crop: when the pastor steps down to talk to the front row, the frame goes with them.

Then the finish. They choose one of 235 caption styles, with automatic keyword highlights, and one of 48 templates that puts the clip title into the design. On Studio, the church logo comes in from the media library. The download keeps the recording's quality with no watermark. Monday morning the first clip goes up on Reels, Shorts and TikTok; Wednesday a short one goes to Stories; Friday the third one closes the week and invites people to Sunday.

The full recording gets its share too. Chapters come in the YouTube description format, ready to paste. The SRT file with the YouTube preset becomes the captions for the sermon video, so people watching on mute or who are hard of hearing can follow along. The PDF transcript goes to the pastor to review and to small group leaders, who build the week's discussion on it. The MP3 feeds the church podcast. If your team has an editor who cuts a recap in Premiere Pro, DaVinci Resolve or Final Cut Pro, on Studio they get a timeline already cut with the chosen moments.

Catholic parishes work the same way. The whole Mass can come in through the stream link, but the homily is usually what becomes content: mark just the homily before processing and only that counts. A 15-minute homily becomes text for the bulletin or parish website, chapters by theme and two or three short clips for Instagram. The same goes for Wednesday night Bible study, small groups, conferences, retreats and youth nights: if someone is speaking, you get a transcript, chapters and clips.

What does it cost? A church with one service a week that processes about 2 hours each Sunday uses around 8 hours a month. That fits Pro, with 10 hours for R$ 59 a month, or R$ 49 on the annual plan. Two services a week, or Sunday plus small groups and a midweek study, pushes past 16 hours, and Studio is the right fit: 20 hours for R$ 89, or R$ 79 annually, with your logo on clips, scored hooks and editor timelines. A multisite church or a network of congregations belongs on Agency, with 35 hours for R$ 149, or R$ 139 annually. If one month runs long, extra hours are R$ 9 on Pro, R$ 8 on Studio and R$ 7 on Agency.