Give VelaClip a sermon and get useful clips without spending hours editing. AI helps with production work. Your ministry team stays in control of what represents the church.
Built specifically for churches—not generic creators. Local-first Mac app for sermon clips, church social media, and sermon repurposing.
Start with the message your church already preached. A clear workflow for church media teams—sermon clips and social-ready drafts on your Mac, with your team keeping the final say.
Paste a YouTube link or drop a video from your Mac. Start with the recording your church already has.
Paste a YouTube link or drop a video from your Mac. Start with the recording your church already has.
Local transcription turns the sermon into a searchable transcript and surfaces teaching beats, stories, and moments worth reviewing as clips—not just cuts.
Shape vertical sermon video clips with captions, hooks, and framing help—so volunteers aren't rebuilding everything by hand.
Your team reviews candidates, edits the transcript, rewrites hooks, and adjusts captions. AI assists production—ministry leaders keep the final say.
Export polished files for Reels, TikTok, Shorts, YouTube, Facebook, and X—then publish through the tools your church already uses. Approval-gated publishing is on the roadmap.
Three screens carry a sermon from a raw recording to a batch of short-form clips — all on your Mac, all in one app.
Drop a video file or paste a YouTube link. VelaClip handles the download and stages it locally on your Mac — no upload, no queue.
Local transcription with word-level timing gives you a searchable sermon transcript and candidate moments to review — so you start from meaning, not endless scrubbing.
Vertical previews with captions you can keep, skip, or rewrite. Shape the clips your team stands behind — then render the batch locally on your Mac.
Real sermon-to-content tools for church media teams—local-first, reviewable, and ready for weekly use. Export for every major platform; approval-gated publishing stays on the roadmap.
See the full workflowMost AI video tools are designed around creators. VelaClip is designed around churches — and the communications work that happens after Sunday.
This isn’t just a clipping tool with church language added on top.
Generic creator tools solve a different problem. VelaClip is being built around the work churches do after the sermon — not only the act of cutting a video into clips.
Not generic footage.
Churches aren’t just another creator segment. VelaClip is shaped around sermon recordings, ministry language, and the weekly service-to-social rhythm.
Import a sermon, get a searchable local transcript, and review candidate moments before you export.
Not engagement at any cost.
The best clip isn’t always the most viral moment. It’s the moment worth sharing — one that still represents the sermon outside the full service.
Edit boundaries, rewrite hooks, and approve what ships. AI assists production; your team keeps the final say.
Not one-person creator workflows.
Production stays with the media team. Message decisions stay with ministry leadership — so Sunday stays consistent across channels.
Today: a create → review → export posture for volunteers, pastors, and communications. Shared approvals and advanced team roles are on the roadmap.
Not another metered Sunday.
The emotional problem isn’t pricing jargon — it’s wondering whether you have enough credits left to process this week’s sermon.
Core transcription, editing, and export can run on your Mac. Unlimited manual editing and exports during the Free Beta; optional connected AI may have its own limits.
Not just clip generation.
Generic tools help you make clips. VelaClip is being built to help your church turn sermons into an ongoing communications system.
Today: create, review, and export. Direction: deeper understanding, collaboration, publishing, and learning over time.
Search your local transcript and review moments that can serve church content creation — teaching, encouragement, and application — so clips represent the message instead of chasing empty engagement.
Deeper sermon structure and scripture-aware assistance are on the roadmap — labeled clearly until they ship.
The goal isn’t simply to create more content. It’s to help churches communicate consistently without adding more work to the people doing ministry.
Today that starts with better sermon content creation. Over time it expands into understanding, collaboration, review, publishing, and learning — without pretending every future capability already exists.
Your content workflow should fit your ministry team — not force your ministry team to fit a creator tool. VelaClip helps volunteers create, ministry leaders review the message, and communications keep everything moving — with humans deciding what represents the church.
Shared approvals and advanced team collaboration are on the roadmap. Today you get a reviewable local workflow designed around how churches actually work.
Give volunteers a workflow they can succeed with — without requiring professional editing experience.
Let ministry leaders review the message without becoming the editor.
Keep production with the media team and message decisions with ministry leadership.
A clip isn’t successful if it misrepresents the sermon. VelaClip is built around sermon context and meaningful moments — not clickbait that distorts the teaching.
Nothing represents your ministry just because AI suggested it. Review candidates, refine hooks and captions, keep what fits, skip what doesn’t, and export only what your team stands behind.
Heavy media work — transcription, editing, captions, and rendering — is designed to run on your Mac. Account, workspace, and optional connected AI are separate and explicit.
Concrete behavior builds more trust than abstract “responsible AI” claims.
VelaClip finds clip candidates.
You choose which represent the message.
VelaClip drafts a hook.
You can rewrite it.
VelaClip applies captions.
You can review them.
VelaClip prepares the export.
Your team decides what ships.
Your computer can do the heavy lifting. Cloud services power accounts and workspace setup — and optional AI stays opt-in.
AI can do more of the work. Your ministry stays responsible for the message.
VelaClip starts with AI-powered sermon repurposing you can use today. The longer direction is an AI content operating system for churches — helping research, create, review, publish, and learn — while meaningful decisions stay reviewable.
These capabilities are being built carefully. They are not available in the Free Beta today — and we will not present them as shipped until they are.
Stages marked Today are part of the current local workflow. Direction and Roadmap stages communicate where VelaClip is headed — not capabilities you can use yet.
Structure, scripture context, and message-aware recommendations.
Move from individual clips toward a coordinated week of church content.
Prepare distribution with humans in the loop — not silent auto-posting.
Learn what resonates for your congregation over time, with provenance.
Create an account to use the Mac desktop app. Local editing without minute-counting. Optional paid services come later—there is no checkout during beta.
Full beta access to the local-first Mac app. Unlimited manual editing and exports. Account required. No payment during beta.
Free during beta · No minute-counting for local editing · Account required
Local processing, privacy, formats, credits, and getting VelaClip running for your church media team.
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Create a free account for the Founding Church Beta. Local-first sermon clips on your Mac. Your team stays in control — while VelaClip grows into your church's AI content team.