Editing and creating clips
What you’ll do: Move where a clip starts or ends, and cut your own clip from any moment in the sermon.
A few minutes per clip
Fixing a clip that starts or ends badly
Sometimes a clip is nearly right — it just opens mid-sentence, or stops a beat too early. You can move both ends by pointing at the words.
- On the clip card, press EDIT. The sermon transcript opens with every word clickable.
- Click the first word you want the clip to start on. It turns green.
- Click the last word you want it to end on. It turns red, and everything between them highlights.
- Check the duration underneath. Short clips must land between 30 and 90 seconds; long ones between 8 and 15 minutes. If you’re outside that, it tells you exactly how much to add or remove.
- Press Save & Re-Extract Clip and wait while it re-cuts.
Choose the word just before the one you think you want. A clip that opens a breath early sounds natural; one that opens exactly on the first syllable sounds clipped. EBENEZER already adds a small cushion at each end for this reason, but the extra word helps when a sentence starts fast.
The old version of that clip is gone once the new one is made. If you’re unsure, download the current version first.
Cutting your own clip
EBENEZER picks four to six moments. Sometimes the one you wanted isn’t among them — you know the line that landed on Sunday. Press Create Custom Clip and take it yourself.
There are two ways in, and they suit different situations.
By the words
Choose Transcript-Based if you remember what was said but not when. Click the first and last words exactly as in the editor above. This is the one to use most of the time — you think in sentences, not timestamps.
By the clock
Choose Time-Based if you already know the moment — you noted it during the service, or you found it scrubbing the video. Type a start and end time as minutes and seconds, like 5:30, or hours too for a long service, like 1:05:30.
Either way, choose whether you’re making a Short Clip or an Extended Clip first, since that sets the length you’re allowed, then press Create Clip.
A clip you cut yourself is styled exactly like the ones EBENEZER chose — cropped for phones, captioned, with your logo and title card. It appears alongside the others and publishes the same way.
Why the length limits exist
Under 30 seconds rarely has room to make a point. Over 90 and people stop scrolling for it. The 8 to 15 minute band for extended clips is a complete section of teaching — long enough to develop something, short enough that someone will start it on a commute.
If your moment genuinely needs 20 seconds or 4 minutes, cut it at the nearest allowed length and let the wider point carry into the sermon itself — that’s what the link on the clip is for.