Guide

How to make sermon clips for social media

The hardest part of a weekly clip habit isn't editing — it's finding the moment worth clipping in hours of footage. Fix that and the reels write themselves.

Every church media team knows the pressure: post consistently, or the account goes quiet. But hunting for a clippable moment across a back-catalog of full-length services is the bottleneck that kills the habit.

The workflow

Refrain does the finding — the part no other tool solves well — so your team spends its time editing, not searching.

Mine your archive, not just Sunday

Your best clips are often months old — a testimony, a guest message, a worship moment. Once your past services are searchable, the whole archive becomes raw material for social, instead of a folder nobody opens.

Honest scope: Refrain is a fast way to find and cut moments on your own Mac. Visual search is sharpest on clips and highlights; full-length services are fully searchable by transcript. It's a discovery-and-clipping tool, not a broadcast catalog.

Make this week's clip in minutes

Free to try on your own footage. On-device — nothing uploaded.

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