Built for the way churches actually create content.
VelaClip helps pastors and church media teams turn long recordings into clips, stories, social posts, and reusable content — with local-first processing on your Mac.
Local-first · Built for churches · Mac-native
“Faith is not the absence of fear…”
“Faith is not the absence of fear…”
Go straight to the exact workflow your team needs.
Turn every sermon into clips, teaching moments, captions, and a full week of content.
Surface life-change stories and emotional moments hidden inside longer services.
Turn one message into daily encouragement, prayer clips, and scripture-first posts.
Create faster, higher-energy edits for youth talks, event recaps, and student stories.
Prepare translated captions and localized content for multilingual congregations.
Create more from baptisms, conferences, worship nights, and special services.
Find VelaClip for your church size or ministry context.
Dedicated pages for small churches, midsize and large teams, multicampus orgs, and military chapels.
Solo pastors and volunteer teams that need sermon clips without a full media department.
Growing churches with a part-time or full-time comms lead who need a reliable weekly content system.
High-output churches that need faster clip production, stronger consistency, and room to grow into team workflows.
Central teaching with campus channels that need the same message, brand, and quality everywhere.
Chapel teams serving service members and families who need private, practical sermon clip workflows.
Turn Sunday's sermon into content for the entire week.
Import a full service or sermon recording, identify strong moments, create short clips, add captions, and prepare content for every platform.
- AI finds strongest momentsComing Soon
- Narrative-aware clip scoringComing Soon
- Message Integrity checksComing Soon
- Smart speaker reframeComing Soon
- Enhance VoiceComing Soon
- Hook variantsComing Soon
- Vela Edit PlanComing Soon
- One-click Content WeekComing Soon
How volunteer-run media teams use VelaClip without technical skills
The majority of church media teams are volunteers with full-time jobs, families, and no formal video training. They need a tool that respects their time and does not punish them for not knowing Premiere Pro.
Most church media teams are volunteers
A typical church comms team is one staff member supported by three to five volunteers who rotate on Sundays. They are teachers, nurses, students, and parents. They care deeply about the message but do not have hours to learn layer-based editing or manage codecs, timelines, and export presets.
No editing experience required
VelaClip replaces the traditional timeline with a transcript-first workflow. Volunteers read the sermon text, click to jump to moments, select a range, and create a clip. The app handles reframing to vertical, caption placement, and export settings automatically. The volunteer never touches a keyframe.
A guided workflow from import to publish
The interface is built around a simple sequence: import, transcribe, find the moment, clip, caption, export. Each step is obvious. There are no hidden right-click menus, no nested bins, and no render queue to babysit. A new volunteer can be trained in a single sitting and produce a finished clip the same day.
What volunteers actually do in VelaClip
Import on Monday morning
Drag the service video into VelaClip or paste the YouTube link. The app handles the rest while the volunteer makes coffee.
Skim by reading
Instead of scrubbing through an hour of footage, the volunteer reads the transcript, finds the best quote, and clicks to jump there instantly.
One-click clip creation
Select the start and end sentences. VelaClip extracts the segment, reframes the speaker to vertical, and prepares captions automatically.
Export and schedule
The volunteer exports a file ready for Instagram, TikTok, and YouTube. It goes straight into the church's scheduling tool or shared folder.
How multi-campus churches manage video content consistency
When one church meets in three or four locations, every campus wants the same sermon series, the same branding, and the same quality. Without a system, each campus improvises — and the result looks like four different churches.
The brand consistency problem across campuses
A central teaching pastor's sermon is shared by every campus, but each location runs its own social accounts. One campus uses Canva templates. Another exports from iMovie with different fonts. A third simply posts the raw video. Over time, the visual identity fragments and the church brand weakens.
One sermon, campus-specific output
VelaClip reframes the same master sermon into vertical clips, landscape segments, and quote graphics. Each campus gets the same source content, rendered with the same brand colors, fonts, and outro. A central comms team can produce a week's worth of content for every campus from a single import.
Quality without a video editor at every location
Most multi-campus churches have one skilled editor — if any. VelaClip lets a single comms director or volunteer set the brand kit once, then any campus staff member can import, clip, caption, and export without touching a timeline. The result is consistent, professional content at every location.
How a multi-campus church uses VelaClip today
Set the brand kit
Upload the church logo, choose brand colors, and set the outro clip once. Every export uses the same visual identity.
Import the central sermon
The teaching pastor's message is imported once. Local transcription runs on the Mac — no file sharing or cloud upload needed.
Create clips for every campus
Identify the strongest moments, reframe each to vertical, and burn in captions. Each campus gets the same quality.
Distribute to campus channels
Export in the right format for each platform. Campus social managers post directly without re-editing or reformatting.
Find and share the stories people remember.
Testimonies are often buried inside long services. VelaClip helps surface personal stories, life-change moments, and emotional turning points.
- Search transcriptAvailable Now
- Manually select testimony momentAvailable Now
- Create clipAvailable Now
- Add captionsAvailable Now
- ExportAvailable Now
- Testimony detectionComing Soon
- Emotional peak detectionComing Soon
- Before/after narrative recognitionComing Soon
- Auto-generated clip variantsComing Soon
- Testimony-first hooksComing Soon
- Church Media Memory B-rollComing Soon
- Performance-based testimony recommendationsComing Soon
…and that's when I remember sitting in the hospital parking lot not knowing if my daughter would make it through the night…
“I remember sitting in the hospital parking lot…”
“For years I thought I had to hide…”
“That was the moment everything changed…”
“I remember sitting in the hospital parking lot…”
“For years I thought I had to hide…”
“That was the moment everything changed…”
One sermon. A complete content week.
Stop starting from zero every Monday. Build a coordinated week of content around the message your church already delivered.
The full sermon-to-Content Week workflow is planned. VelaClip will not imply automatic week generation until it ships.
- Short clipsComing Soon
- Quote graphicsComing Soon
- Scripture postsComing Soon
- Carousel outlinesComing Soon
- Social captionsComing Soon
- YouTube descriptionsComing Soon
- Devotional draftsComing Soon
- Suggested scheduleComing Soon
Turn years of sermons into a searchable ministry library.
Search past messages by keyword today, and eventually by meaning, theme, scripture, story, prayer, or similarity.
- Keyword search in current sermonAvailable Now
- Transcript searchAvailable Now
- Semantic archive searchComing Soon
- Cross-sermon searchComing Soon
- Theme searchComing Soon
- Scripture searchComing Soon
- Testimony searchComing Soon
- Prayer searchComing Soon
- Altar-call searchComing Soon
- Similarity searchComing Soon
- Cross-sermon AI agentComing Soon
- Topic evolution over timeComing Soon
Built for the volunteer who has 45 minutes, not 4 hours.
VelaClip should help media teams move from raw sermon footage to review-ready content without requiring advanced editing experience.
- Local video importAvailable Now
- Manual clip creationAvailable Now
- Transcript-assisted editingAvailable Now
- Basic captionsAvailable Now
- Basic export & local renderingAvailable Now
- Guided editing workflowComing Soon
- AI Edit PlansComing Soon
- Plan → Preview → ApplyComing Soon
- Editing DirectorComing Soon
- Per-shot AI effectsComing Soon
- Smart reframeComing Soon
- Safe-zone auto-fixComing Soon
- Enhance VoiceComing Soon
- Hook LabComing Soon
- Clip variantsComing Soon
- Vela Edit V1Coming Soon
Church Volunteer
Needs a simple guided path.
Communications Director
Needs consistency, planning, and performance.
Pastor
Needs search, review, and message integrity.
Turn one message into daily encouragement.
- ·30–60 second devotionals
- ·Scripture-first clips
- ·Daily encouragement
- ·Prayer clips
- ·Quote posts
- Automatic devotional extractionComing Soon
- Scripture intelligenceComing Soon
- Prayer detectionComing Soon
- Content Week generationComing Soon
Create content that moves at the speed of youth ministry.
- ·Youth messages
- ·Event recaps
- ·Short teaching moments
- ·High-energy edits
- ·Testimony clips
- Youth Energy edit styleComing Soon
- Dynamic auto zoomComing Soon
- Fast pacing modeComing Soon
- Event recap assemblyComing Soon
- Performance learning by audienceComing Soon
Help the same message reach more people.
Create captions and translated content for multilingual congregations and ministry audiences.
- Multilingual captionsComing Soon
- TranslationComing Soon
- Church-aware translation contextComing Soon
- Optional dubbingComing Soon
- Scripture-aware translationComing Soon
- Translated titles and descriptionsComing Soon
Create more from baptisms, conferences, Easter, Christmas, and special events.
- Easter recap
- Christmas service highlights
- Baptism stories
- Conference clips
- Worship night recap
- Mission trip recap
- Youth event recap
- Manually import footageAvailable Now
- Create clipsAvailable Now
- Add captionsAvailable Now
- ExportAvailable Now
- Multi-clip AI assemblyComing Soon
- Church-safe remixingComing Soon
- Church Media MemoryComing Soon
- Smart B-roll DirectorComing Soon
- Owned-footage retrievalComing Soon
- Event recap edit stylesComing Soon
- Automatic highlight reelsComing Soon
One content system across multiple ministries.
For multi-campus churches, ministries with separate youth/worship/Spanish teams, and communications departments.
- Shared brand kitsPlanned
- Shared media memoryPlanned
- Multiple workspacesPlanned
- Role permissionsPlanned
- Approval workflowsPlanned
- Campus-specific outputPlanned
- Organization-wide archive intelligencePlanned
- Shared AI contextPlanned
- Recurring automationPlanned
One message can become much more than one upload.
Your church's message should not have to leave your Mac.
VelaClip is designed around local-first processing. Core workflows can run on your machine, while optional cloud AI features should always be clearly identified.
Local transcription
Process sermon audio on your Mac.
Local rendering
Export without uploading your full video.
Optional cloud AI
Connect providers only when you choose.
Private archive
Keep sermon history under your control.
Where VelaClip is going next
We mark roadmap features clearly so you always know what's live today versus what's in development.
Available Now
Shipped- Local-first Mac editing
- Local transcription
- Manual clip creation and export
- Connected ChatGPT / Claude assistance
- Up to 3 AI-assisted shorts per long video
Coming Soon
In development- Full content-week generation
- Church and message memory
- Message Integrity gates
- Campaign packaging
- Team roles and shared approvals
Planned
Planned- Advanced shared automation
- Calendar scheduling
- Multi-campus controls
- Publishing automation
- Cloud review links
Common questions
Start with the content your church already creates.
Turn sermons, stories, and ministry moments into content that keeps reaching people throughout the week.
Local-first · Free during beta · Built for churches