Still means what the pastor meant
Not engagement at any cost.
The best clip isn't the most viral moment. It's the one that still means what the pastor meant, outside the full sermon.
AI Communications Director for churches
Turn Sunday's sermon into a complete content week.
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.
Free during Founding Church Free Beta · macOS 13+ · Apple Silicon & Intel
VelaClip
Interactive product tour
Make Clips
Turn a service into clips
Your source video stays on this Mac.
Drop your service recording here
MP4, MOV, or M4V · up to 8 GB
Bring in a service. Start with a recording from your Mac or a public video link.
VelaClip
Interactive product tour
Make Clips
Turn a service into clips
Your source video stays on this Mac.
Drop your service recording here
MP4, MOV, or M4V · up to 8 GB
Bring in a service. Start with a recording from your Mac or a public video link.
●How VelaClip works
From sermon to content—without the busywork.
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.
YouTube · MP4 · MOV
01 · Sermon
Bring your sermon
Paste a YouTube link or drop a video from your Mac. Start with the recording your church already has.
01 · Sermon
sunday-service.mp4 · 52:18
When the storm comes, Jesus doesn't ask us to pretend it isn't there.
He asks us to remember who is with us.
Peace is not the absence of a storm.
9:16Hook, captions, and framing applied automatically from the moment your team picked.
Peace is not the absence of a storm.
ApprovedYour ministry team reviewed the transcript, hook, and captions before anything ships.
Ready for every channel your church uses:
Local-first on Mac·Human review first·Message stays yours·Platform-ready export
●Inside the app
A focused workflow, from service to shareable clip.
Explore the actual VelaClip workflow. Every step is reviewable—so your ministry team stays in control of what represents the church.
VelaClip
Interactive product tour
Make Clips
Turn a service into clips
Your source video stays on this Mac.
Drop your service recording here
MP4, MOV, or M4V · up to 8 GB
Bring in a service. Start with a recording from your Mac or a public video link.
Local video or public link
Choose a recording from your Mac or paste a public video link. VelaClip stages the service locally so the production workflow begins on your computer.
Available today
What your church can do now.
Real sermon-to-content tools for church media teams: local-first, reviewable, and ready for weekly use. Export for every major platform.
Read what an AI Communications Director does, the church video editing software page, and the sermon clip software comparison.
See the full workflow01
Bring the sermon in
Local sermon import
Bring in the full service—video or audio—and keep media on your Mac.
On-device transcription
Word-level transcripts for precise cuts—no upload required for local work.
Connected AI assistance
Optional ChatGPT or Claude help for hooks and titles.
02
Shape the content
Transcript-assisted clipping
Create and refine clips from the transcript with full boundary control.
Captions & formats
Add captions and export vertical, square, and landscape variants.
Hooks & platform copy
Generate titles, hooks, and social copy to support each clip.
03
Ready to ship
Unlimited local export
Export platform-ready files without minute-counting for local editing.
Human review built in
You choose what ships. AI assists production; your team keeps final say.
Platform-ready export
TikTok
9:16
Reels
9:16
Shorts
9:16
YouTube
16:9
Facebook
4:5
X
1:1
Why VelaClip?
Built for churches, not generic viral video.
Most AI video tools are designed around creators chasing engagement. VelaClip is designed around what happens after Sunday — a sermon that deserves to be represented accurately.
Ministry stays in control
Not one-person creator workflows.
Production stays with the media team. Message decisions stay with ministry leadership — AI assists, it doesn't decide what represents the church.
Local-first by design
Not a cloud upload by default.
Transcription, editing, and rendering run on your Mac. Your sermon doesn't need to leave the building to become content.
No credit anxiety
Not another metered Sunday.
Unlimited manual editing and exports during the Free Beta — no wondering whether you have enough minutes left for this week's message.
Before a clip ships
It won't cut your pastor mid-sentence and change what they meant.
Generic clip tools score moments for energy and cut wherever the audio peaks. VelaClip is designed to notice when a clip boundary lands inside a negation, a scripture reference, or a setup line — and to flag it before it ships.
Boundary review runs locally, alongside your transcript. Your team makes the final call.
What the pastor actually said
“Grace is not something we earn — it is something we receive.”
A generic clip tool
“Grace is something we earn.”
Cut lands after “not” — meaning inverted
VelaClip
“Grace is not something we earn — it is something we receive.”
Negation detected — boundary held for full clause
How authority works
Your ministry keeps the final say.
Volunteers create, pastors review the message, communications keeps things moving — with humans deciding what represents the church at every step.
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.
Work → Decision → Export
VelaClip AI
Finds · prepares · recommends
Your ministry
Decides
Reviewed content exports
No silent auto-publishing
Default
Local
Transcription, editing, and export on your Mac by default.
Optional
ChatGPT
Optional: connect OpenAI for deeper assisted editing.
Optional
Claude
Optional: connect Anthropic for assisted analysis when you choose.
Now welcoming Founding Churches
The goal isn't more content. It's communicating consistently without adding to a volunteer's Sunday night.
Free during the beta. Founding Churches help shape what ships next.
Where we're headed
Becoming an AI Communications Director for churches — not another editing tool.
VelaClip starts with sermon repurposing you can use today. The direction is a full content operating system for churches: research, create, review, and learn — while meaningful decisions stay reviewable.
Read what an AI Communications Director does, the church video editing software page, and the sermon clip software comparison.
These capabilities are being built carefully. They aren't in the Free Beta today, and we won't present them as shipped until they are.
Content workflow direction
4 of 6 shipped today
Sermon
Today
Understand
Today
Create
Today
Review
Today
Approve
Direction
Learn
Roadmap
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.
Coming later
Content-week packaging
Move from individual clips toward a coordinated week of church content.
Coming later
Performance learning
Learn what resonates for your congregation over time, with provenance.
●Free Beta
VelaClip is free during the Founding Church Free Beta.
Create an account. Free during beta. No checkout. Local editing without minute-counting.
Founding Church Free Beta
Free during beta. No checkout. Account required. Mac clipping is in beta; no public download page.
Free during beta · No minute-counting for local editing · Account required
●FAQ
Questions, answered.
Local processing, privacy, formats, credits, and getting VelaClip running for your church media team.
Still curious? Email hello@velaclip.app and we'll get back within a day.
Founding Church Free Beta
Free during beta. No checkout. Account required. Mac clipping is in beta; no public download page.
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Start with this Sunday's sermon.
Join the Founding Church Free Beta. Local-first sermon clips on your Mac. VelaClip is the AI Communications Director for churches — your team stays in control.
macOS 13+ · Apple Silicon & Intel