For your team
Church video announcements: record one clip, get a finished vertical video
Cutroom turns one short clip of your pastor or a volunteer speaking to camera into a finished 9:16 church announcement or invite. Captions, b-roll and an opening headline are added for you.
In short
- Cutroom makes church video announcements from one clip. Record it on a phone and get a captioned vertical video back.
- Cutroom is made for Sunday invites, event announcements and Easter or Christmas service ads.
- Cutroom does not clip a recorded sermon into shorts. OpusClip and Captions do that.
- A volunteer fixes names in the transcript, and there is no editing timeline to learn.
- Your first video is free with no card. Lite is $19.99 a month.
- Longest clip you record
- 3 min
- Caption themes, from quiet to loud
- 40
- Your first video, no card
- $0
What Cutroom does for churches
Cutroom finishes the short, spoken church video: the invite, the announcement and the holiday service ad.
- You record one clip to camera on a phone, up to 3 minutes, by the pastor or a volunteer.
- Cutroom cuts the pauses and adds captions, b-roll on the words and an opening headline.
- A finished invite runs 45 to 60 seconds, and an announcement can be shorter than that.
- You get a 9:16 MP4 for Instagram, Facebook, TikTok or YouTube Shorts.
- You change any clip or caption by reading the transcript.
- Cutroom does not clip a recorded sermon into shorts.
When churches need video most
The church calendar sets the deadlines.
- Easter, Christmas and a fall series kickoff are the busy seasons, when churches hope to see first-time guests.
- Put the invite out two or three weeks ahead, because that is when people decide where they are going.
- Film the holiday invite while you are already planning the service, so it is ready before that week fills up.
This is the whole editor
Highlight a phrase and a clip lands on those exact words. No timeline, no keyframes, no layers.
Three church videos to record
Each one is a single clip of 30 to 90 seconds, recorded straight to camera by one person.
- The Sunday invite says who the church is for, what a first Sunday looks like and where to park.
- The event announcement gives one event, one date and one reason to come, with the news in the first line.
- The holiday service ad is an Easter or Christmas invite, run as a Meta ad to people within driving distance.
A 45-second Sunday invite, line by line
Record it in this order in one go. The opening headline comes from your first sentence, and b-roll lands on the words that name a place or a thing.
Welcome
who the church is for, in one sentence
What to expect
the music, the length, what people wear
Parking and kids
where to go when you arrive
The ask
the service time and the address
How it works
Upload the clip and Cutroom returns an edited 9:16 video in about a minute.
- Cutroom transcribes the clip, tightens the pauses, and adds b-roll, captions and an opening headline.
- Highlight a phrase and a clip lands over exactly those words.
- Delete a sentence in the transcript and the video rebuilds around it.
- Correct a misheard name or book of the Bible, and the captions follow.
- Upload your own photos of the building, the kids' rooms or last Christmas, and Cutroom uses those before any stock clip.
- The pastor can record the clip and a volunteer can finish it later, both in the same browser.
The editor: the transcript on one side, the finished frame on the other
Every change is made in the text. There is no timeline, no keyframe and no layer to manage.
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- 1B-roll on the exact wordsReal footage, placed where showing beats telling.
- 2The opening headlineWritten from what you said. Pick one it drafted, or write your own.
- 3Captions in 40 themesPick a theme, then its font and colour.
- 49:16, ready to exportExport renders one vertical MP4.
Other video tools churches use
Church media teams usually compare Captions, OpusClip and Cutroom. They do different jobs.
- Captions has a page for church content creators, and it edits sermon clips and devotionals on a phone.
- OpusClip has a church page, and it turns a full recorded service into dozens of short clips.
- Cutroom finishes the invite, announcement or holiday ad recorded to camera. It does not clip sermons.
- Many teams clip Sunday's message with one tool and make the invite in Cutroom.
Three video tools church teams use, side by side
Prices as published on each vendor's own pricing page on the day shown. Plans change, so check the page before you pay.
| Tool | Best for | Editing approach | Platform | Pricing from |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 Captions | Sermon clips and devotionals edited on a phone | AI edit styles applied to your clip, with manual controls | iOS, Android, web | Free version; Max $24.99/month |
 OpusClip | Turning a recorded service into many short clips | AI picks clips from long video and captions them | Web, mobile | Free plan (watermark); Starter $15/month |
| Cutroom | The invite or announcement recorded straight to camera | You upload a clip; b-roll, captions and a hook are placed for you | Browser | First video free, no card; Lite $19.99/month |
- Captions
- Best for
- Sermon clips and devotionals edited on a phone
- Approach
- AI edit styles applied to your clip, with manual controls
- Platform
- iOS, Android, web
- Pricing from
- Free version; Max $24.99/month
- OpusClip
- Best for
- Turning a recorded service into many short clips
- Approach
- AI picks clips from long video and captions them
- Platform
- Web, mobile
- Pricing from
- Free plan (watermark); Starter $15/month
Cutroom
- Best for
- The invite or announcement recorded straight to camera
- Approach
- You upload a clip; b-roll, captions and a hook are placed for you
- Platform
- Browser
- Pricing from
- First video free, no card; Lite $19.99/month
Prices and plans read from each vendor's own pricing page on 21 September 2026.
What a church video costs
Each video costs 100 credits for the edit plus 20 credits per minute of finished video.
- A 30-second invite costs about 110 credits.
- A 60-second announcement costs about 120 credits.
- A 90-second series intro costs about 130 credits.
- Basic adds generated music and avatars, if you want music under the invite.
Cutroom plans for a church
The free video exports with a Cutroom mark across the middle; Lite and up remove it.
| Plan | Price | Credits | 30-second videos |
|---|---|---|---|
| First video | Free, no card | 600 | 1, made within 7 days |
| Lite | $19.99 a month | 1,250 | About 11 a month |
| Basic | $39.99 a month | 2,500 | About 22 a month, plus music and avatars |
| Premium | $79.99 a month | 5,000 | About 45 a month |
Plan: First video
- Price
- Free, no card
- Credits
- 600
- 30-second videos
- 1, made within 7 days
Plan: Lite
- Price
- $19.99 a month
- Credits
- 1,250
- 30-second videos
- About 11 a month
Plan: Basic
- Price
- $39.99 a month
- Credits
- 2,500
- 30-second videos
- About 22 a month, plus music and avatars
Plan: Premium
- Price
- $79.99 a month
- Credits
- 5,000
- 30-second videos
- About 45 a month
Questions people ask
- Can a volunteer record the church video instead of the pastor?
- Yes. Anyone comfortable on camera can record it: a pastor, a youth leader or a greeter. Cutroom needs one speaker talking to camera, up to 3 minutes, filmed on a phone. Another volunteer can fix names in the transcript later and export the video.
- What should a Sunday invite video say?
- What a first-time guest wonders about: who the church is for, what the service is like, how long it runs, where to park and what happens with the children. End with the service time and the address. Forty-five to sixty seconds holds all of it.
- Can we use photos of our own church building and rooms?
- Yes. Upload clips as MP4, MOV or WebM and stills as PNG, JPEG or WebP. Cutroom uses your own clips and photos first, and fills anything they do not cover with free stock footage. If children appear, get their parents' consent first.
- Will the captions spell names and books of the Bible correctly?
- Usually, and when they do not, you fix it in one step. Correct the word in the transcript and the burned-in captions change with it. You never retype captions on a timeline.
- Can we run a church invite as a local Facebook or Instagram ad?
- Yes. The finished 9:16 MP4 fits Reels and Stories placements. Upload it in Meta Ads Manager and set the audience there, for example people within driving distance of the church. The targeting, budget and schedule stay in Ads Manager.
- How much does a church announcement video cost to make?
- Your first video is free, with no card, and you have 7 days to make it. After that, Lite is $19.99 a month for 1,250 credits. A 30-second announcement uses about 110 credits, so Lite covers about 11 a month.
- Who should not use Cutroom for church video?
- Teams whose main job is clipping the full sermon into shorts. Cutroom's longest clip is 3 minutes from one speaker, so it cannot handle a 40-minute recording. OpusClip and Captions both sell sermon clipping.
Record next Sunday's invite on a phone and upload it. Your first video is free.