What it does, and what it does not.
Plain answers for a pastor or a media volunteer. The weekly steps are on Help.
Does the website cut the clips?
No. The website is the account and the plan. You paste the sermon and export the video in the desktop app. Analysis uses credits. Cutting the clips does not.
What spends a credit?
Get clips spends 1. Midweek spends 1. The 3-second sheet spends 1. Cloud transcription spends 1 per 30 minutes, rounded up. Local transcription and Produce spend 0. A full Sunday on cloud transcription uses more than one credit.
What is the trial?
Five credits. No card. Unused trial credits expire 30 days after the account is created. It does not convert into a paid plan. After that, pick a plan if you want to continue. Plans are on Pricing.
Do plans renew?
Paid plans renew unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current billing period. The free try is not a subscription. It does not renew and it does not charge. Annual is the same monthly credits, billed once at ten months’ price. Unused plan credits do not roll over. A paid plan resets on its own billing date.
Which computer does it run on?
Windows, or a Mac with Apple Silicon. Sign in with the email and password on the account.
YouTube, Facebook, or a file from the booth?
A YouTube link, or a local mp4. A long service file is fine. The app looks for the message. It does not take a Facebook link.
Does it always cut out worship and announcements?
No. It prints a message window and tries to pick teaching clips. On a full service that window can still open during worship. Do not plan on every recording losing the front of the service.
Will I get a vertical Reel with captions burned in?
No. Clips are landscape. The 3-second sheet does not burn captions and does not make a phone-shaped file. Post the teaching clip as it is, or trim the longer edit copy. Free programs people already use: on a phone, CapCut or iMovie. On a computer, Clipchamp, which is included with Windows, iMovie on a Mac, CapCut, or DaVinci Resolve. You do not need one of these to post the teaching clip.
How long does Get clips take?
The clip list is the short part. The wait is writing the sermon down, the first time you run that file.
Cloud transcription on: a 30–50 minute sermon is often a couple of minutes. That costs extra credits, 1 per 30 minutes, rounded up, on top of the 1 credit for Get clips.
Cloud transcription off: the computer writes the copy. The same sermon can take several minutes, longer on a slow computer. That wait does not use a credit.
If the folder already has a transcript, Get clips skips the wait and goes to the clip list. Home shows a short status either way.
Why did I get fewer clips than I asked for?
That can be a normal result. It is not a failed run. Read the theme and the times, then Produce the clips you have.
Where does my church name show up?
On the Midweek title, the Discussion Starter title, and one hashtag on the 3-second sheet. The main clip report stays ChurchClip AI Report.
Can I rename the transcript?
Not the one in the sermon folder. The app reads transcript.srt, transcript.txt, and the JSON inside v1. Copy the named export if you are building a series folder.
What are the edit copies?
Optional. Settings can also save a file with 30 seconds before and 60 seconds after, in vN\\clips\\edit\\. Off by default. They never replace the teaching mp4.
Whose video can I run?
Only video you own or have rights to use. That line is also on the reports.