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Moments

Choose and create a sermon moment

Turn a complete thought from a video sermon into a short clip.

What you’ll work toward

Turn a complete thought from a video sermon into a short clip.

Start with a video sermon

Open Moments and choose Create New Clip. Under From sermon, select a ready sermon, then choose how to create the clip. If a sermon only has audio, the selection offers an AudioGram route instead. You can also import a saved Clip Studio project.

Choose a passage that makes sense to someone who did not hear the whole message. Listen before and after the intended boundaries. A strong sentence that begins “that is why” may need the preceding explanation.

Choose a video source. Select a prepared video sermon, or use the AudioGram option for audio-only material.

Select the prepared sermon in the source picker.

Shape and review

Use the creation options to choose the source and framing. Where offered, set the aspect ratio, caption style and smart face tracking; portrait framing crops a landscape recording, so inspect the edges and follow the speaker through movement. Open the result in Studio, review its beginning and ending, then export and watch the finished file with sound.

Discovery: Recent clips can be opened, renamed or downloaded from Moments. A draft needs an export before its download is available. See Edit a moment for the production pass.

A worked example

Imagine Harbor Community Church wants to share a passage from “Practicing Patience.” The speaker begins with a story and follows it with one practical instruction. The team listens to both parts and selects the section that makes the instruction understandable. They keep a short lead-in instead of starting on a pronoun whose meaning would be missing.

In Moments, choose Create New Clip, select the ready sermon under From sermon, and choose how to create the clip. The screen can offer different ways to begin; read the options and choose the one suited to the passage you already know or the discovery you want. Where the setup offers custom guidance, describe the idea you want to preserve, not just a desired emotional reaction.

Make the format serve the message

A portrait output is useful for a vertical feed, but it contains less of the original landscape frame. Preview the whole clip for gestures, slides and other speakers. Smart face tracking is an option on the generation flow for appropriate portrait formats; tracking is a starting point, so check its result when the speaker moves or a shot changes. For a landscape presentation, retain the wider composition where it matters.

If captions are enabled, choose a style that can be read over the footage. An optional pause-removal setting can tighten a clip; listen again to make sure it has not removed an intentional pause. Follow the job’s progress and open the result for a separate editing pass.

If the sermon is unavailable, check that it has finished preparation and contains video. For audio-only material, the source panel offers Create an audiogram instead. If a saved project is available locally, Import from project offers another starting point.

Continue with editing, caption review, or a newsletter featuring the finished clip.

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