The Best Prompts for Editing Sermon Videos

Rough cut

1. Just the sermon

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   Make an edit of just the sermon, from "[first line, such as Please turn with me to]" to the end of the closing prayer. Remove the [announcements] in the middle.

   Eddie finds the first and last lines in the transcript, trims to them and removes the stretch you named.

2. A shorter version

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   Make a [20]-minute version of the sermon that keeps [the main points] and [the closing story] and removes the longer illustrations.

   Eddie builds to the target length and reports what it kept.

Highlights

1. The quotable passages

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   Find the [4] most quotable passages of 30 to 60 seconds that make sense on their own, and list them with their main line.

   Eddie reads the sermon transcript and returns self-contained passages.

Social clips

1. A clip for each weekday

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   Make each of those passages a vertical clip on the close camera with social captions, named after its main line.

   Eddie builds 9:16 edits cropped to the pastor, with captions.

2. A worship moment

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   Make a [30]-second vertical clip of [the chorus of the last song] from the band camera.

   Eddie trims the moment from the band camera and builds a vertical edit.

Captions

1. Series title and captions

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   Add a title "[Series name], [Passage]" for the first [5] seconds and minimal captions at the bottom, two lines at most.

   Eddie places the title and builds captions from the word timings.

2. Scripture names right

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   Correct "[misheard name]" to "[correct name]" everywhere in the transcript before adding captions.

   Eddie fixes the word everywhere, keeping its timing.

B-roll

Eddie uses your own b-roll first. Where you have nothing that fits, it searches stock footage: free Pexels clips, plus your own Shutterstock catalog if you connect it. When neither has the shot, it can generate a short b-roll clip. It quotes the credits first and generates nothing until you agree. You can also tell it to use only your own footage.

1. Congregation cutaways

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   Cut away to the congregation shots from the wide camera during the [story about the lost son], for [10] seconds at a time.

   Eddie places your own wide shots over that passage.

Music

1. Soft pad under the close

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   Put a soft [piano pad] under the closing prayer, ducked under the voice, fading in and out.

   Eddie places a music cue for that section with fades and ducking.

Multicam

1. Sync with the pulpit mic

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   Sync the [wide camera], the [pulpit camera] and the [pulpit mic] as one multicam group, and use the pulpit mic as the audio.

   Eddie syncs the files by sound and sets the clean microphone as the audio.

2. Angles for the message

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   Use the close camera for the main points and the wide camera for transitions and stories.

   Eddie assigns an angle to each section of the sermon edit.

Export

1. The week's files

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   Export the sermon as a 1080p MP4 and the clips as vertical MP4s.

   Eddie renders every edit in the cloud with captions.

2. Save it as the weekly routine

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   Save these steps as a recipe called "Sunday sermon" with the first line of the sermon and the passage as inputs.

   Eddie saves a reusable prompt recipe that every member of the workspace can run next week.