Use case
Send each Sunday's sermon or the full service, up to 3 hours, and get up to 20 ranked vertical clips with burned-in captions for $0.03 per source minute. A 45 minute sermon costs $1.35.
Sermon clip API: every Sunday service into captioned vertical clips
A 3-minute sermon with a prompt about the cross and suffering comes back as 3 ranked clips in just over a minute, for $0.09.
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What a year of sermon clips costs
You pay for the minutes you send, not the clips: for a source up to 1080p60 and 20 Mb/s, asking for 1 clip or 20 costs the same.
| Each week | Per week | 52 weeks |
|---|---|---|
| A 25 minute sermon | $0.75 | $39.00 |
| A 45 minute sermon | $1.35 | $70.20 |
| A 90 minute service | $2.70 | $140.40 |
| A 3 hour service, the longest file | $5.40 | $280.80 |
New accounts get $1 free, 33 minutes. See pricing.
From Sunday recording to posted clip
Record the preacher
A camera on the preacher alone gives the cleanest crop. Export an MP4, MOV, WebM or MKV, up to 3 hours and 5 GB.
Send the sermon or the full service
Upload it in New clips, or with
POST /v1/uploadsfrom a script. For a full service, describe the message inprompt. Announcements score low on their own, since they only matter to people in the room.Pick a caption preset
Minimal keeps the text small and plain. Bold and karaoke are bigger. Every clip also comes with SRT and VTT files if you style captions yourself.
Watch before you post
Check each clip's score, its one-line reason and its crop. Copy the clips you keep: files are deleted after 7 days.
The request behind the clip
This is the exact request behind the clip above. The prompt steers the ranker toward the message, and minimal captions keep the text out of the preacher's way.
curl https://api.clipsdk.com/v1/clips \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $CLIPSDK_KEY" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{
"video_url": "https://api.clipsdk.com/f/lib/demo/sermon-at-calvary.mp4",
"clips": 3,
"aspect": "9:16",
"reframe": "auto",
"captions": "minimal",
"prompt": "quotable moments about the cross, suffering and hope that stand on their own"
}'Send the full service or just the sermon
Send the sermon on its own, or the whole Sunday recording up to 3 hours and 5 GB. The full service costs more minutes, so a 90 minute service is $2.70 against $1.35 for a 45 minute sermon.
If you send the full service, put the message in prompt, up to 500 characters, and the ranker looks for those moments first. Your media team can do all of it from New clips in the dashboard, with no code.
Framing the preacher
Clips come back 9:16 at 1080x1920 by default, with no watermark. Auto reframe follows whoever is speaking, which works best when the camera holds on the preacher alone.
In the run above, the top clip followed a man standing next to the priest instead of the priest, so we show clip 2. A tight shot of the pulpit avoids it. reframe: "center" keeps a fixed crop from the middle of the frame, and reframe: "none" keeps the whole frame over a blurred copy.
What to check before you post
Every clip has a score from 0 to 100 and a one-line reason. Post 80 and up as they are, check 50 to 79 for context, and skip anything under 50. Our third clip scored 48, and its reason said nothing stronger stood out, so it was the clearest stretch of speech left.
Titles, post captions and reasons come back in the language of the sermon. Leave language out and it is detected, or set it, like es for Spanish.
Questions, answered
How much does a year of Sunday sermon clips cost?
A 45 minute sermon each week costs $1.35 a week, $70.20 for 52 weeks. A 90 minute service costs $2.70 a week, $140.40 a year. New accounts get $1 free.
Can it clip a sermon in Spanish?
Yes. Set `language` to `es`, or leave it out and the language is detected. Titles, post captions and reasons come back in the language of the transcript.
Can we send our YouTube livestream link?
No. YouTube, Twitch and other page links are refused. Download the recording, then upload the file or send a direct link to it.
Will it take a full 2 hour service?
Yes. Files can run up to 3 hours and 5 GB. Use `prompt` to point the ranker at the message, and copy the clips you keep within 7 days.
Keep reading
- Clip every conference session the same dayUpload each conference session as it ends and get up to 20 ranked vertical clips per talk. A 40 minute keynote costs ~$1.20, with 3 jobs at once and 200 jobs a day.
- Turn hours of stream VOD into ranked highlight clipsUpload a stream VOD of up to 3 hours and get up to 20 ranked highlight clips with captions. A full 3 hour VOD costs ~$5.40, and longer streams split into two jobs.
- Animated captions, burned in word by wordBurn word-by-word captions into every clip in one of 3 presets: bold, karaoke or minimal. Or set captions to false for clean clips with SRT and VTT files. $0.03 per source minute.
- Speaker reframe: 16:9 to 9:16 that follows whoever is talkingReframe wide video to 9:16 (1080x1920), 1:1, 4:5 or 16:9. Auto mode tracks faces and cuts to whoever is talking; center and none are one field away. $0.03 per source minute.
- Best auto reframe toolsSix auto reframe tools for turning 16:9 video into 9:16 around the speaker, compared on price and how each one tracks.
- Whop clippingClip Content Rewards campaign videos without code: ranked 9:16 clips, captions burned in, no watermark and a post caption for each.
Sources
- Sermon at Calvary on Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 3.0, checked 7 November 2026
- The same video on YouTube, Creative Commons Attribution, checked 7 November 2026
- clipsdk API summary (llms.txt), checked 7 November 2026
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