How your clips are framed
What you’ll do: Decide how tightly your clips are cropped for phone screens, and how the sermon title looks at the start of each one. Set once, applies to everything after.
About 5 minutes
Your sermon is filmed wide. Phones are tall. Something has to be cut, and this page is where you decide what. Go to Settings → Framing.
The picker pulls a real still from your most recent sermon, so you’re judging your actual stage, your actual lighting, your actual camera position — not a mock-up. You’ll need at least one sermon uploaded before this page can show you anything.
Choose your crop
- Drag the band left or right until your preacher is where you want them in the tall frame. The line underneath tells you what you’re keeping.
- Choose a width: Tight fills the frame completely with no bars — the closest crop and the default. Medium shows more of the room, filling the space above and below with a soft blur. Wide keeps nearly the whole stage, with more blur.
- Check the preview on the right, then press Save framing.
If your camera is close and your preacher stays put, go Tight — it fills the whole screen with no wasted space. If they roam the stage, Medium or Wide stops them walking out of shot mid-sentence.
One trade-off worth knowing: a tight crop enlarges a smaller piece of the picture. On a lower-resolution recording that can look soft. The page tells you your video’s resolution and says which widths will stay sharp.
Choose how the title looks
Every short clip opens with the sermon title on screen for about two seconds. Five styles, each shown in your own brand colour:
- Classic — white text with a black outline. Readable on anything. The safe choice.
- Brand outline — white text outlined in your colour.
- Brand text — the words themselves in your colour.
- Brand box — a solid block of your colour with dark text on it.
- Dark box — a dark block with your colour as the text.
Dark text on a filmed stage is hard to read, so a dark primary colour works best in Brand box or Dark box, where it sits against a solid block rather than over the video. The page warns you when your colour will struggle.
Changes apply to new clips
Framing is applied when a clip is made, so what you save here affects everything cut from now on. Clips that already exist keep the framing they were made with. To restyle an old clip, re-cut it from the clip editor.
Want to start over? Reset to default puts you back to a tight centre crop with the classic title.
Five minutes here changes every clip your church publishes from now on. Worth getting right while you’re looking at a real frame from your own building.