12 eps × 90 min — what plan survives?
52 Sundays — what does the year cost?
YouTube chapters in one paste
MCP weaverclip_bulk_create_edits — copy into description.
Before you record lesson one
When does your drive fill?
Your 2TB drive, your schedule, your bitrate — one date.
2.70 GB/h · 32.4 GB/week
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We read VBitrate and tell you what a night costs.
24–72h — will you lose the best hour?
Sermons: store a 3-hour service free for 30 days, not 3 days. Then keep it 180.
Free 10 GB (~3h at 1080p30 6 Mbps) holds a full 3-hour service. 2h transcript covers the sermon; add Creator $15 for the third hour or Pro 8h for the week. Download full SRT to archive, clip later. Free 30d, paid 180d, date shown.
A Sunday is 3 hours at 6 Mbps ≈ 8.1 GB and 3h of transcript. Opus Free 60 min/month can't cover it and deletes in 3 days. Weaver Free 10 GB/2h holds the first 2h for 30 days — the sermon — and Creator $15 covers the third hour plus 100 renders for 60 ranked moments (20/h × 3h). The nuanced win for churches: you don't need to decide Sunday at 2pm which 45s to post. Upload the 3h, the transcript is word-timed, the 60 moments are ranked, and the media team picks on Tuesday without scrubbing 3h. The full SRT is downloadable Sunday night for the deaf ministry, even before clips exist.
3h at 6 Mbps ≈ 8.1 GB — fits Free 10 GB with 1.9 GB left, 2h
Download full-stream SRT/VTT Sunday night — archive without
Share gallery link, not 8 GB attachment — Free 3 total 30d,
Sermon Year Archive calculator: 52 Sundays × 3h ≈ 340 GB — o
Sharp nuances you didn't know you needed — until you're live
The Sunday math — why 3h is the magic number
3h at 6 Mbps (1080p30, slides, worship) is 8.1 GB, at 12 Mbps (1080p60, multi-cam) is 16.2 GB. Free 10 GB holds the 6 Mbps version with 1.9 GB headroom, not the 12 Mbps. That's the sharp nuance: churches that record 1080p60 for 3h need Creator 75 GB, not Free. The FreeVideoTool on /vs-opus-clip lets the media volunteer slide to 180 min and pick 6 Mbps vs 12 Mbps and see 'fits Free' vs 'needs Creator $15' in seconds, not after a failed upload at 11pm.
Sermon Year Archive — 52 Sundays, not one
52 × 3h at 6 Mbps = 421 GB-hours? No, 52 × 8.1 GB = 421 GB. At $0.04/GB-month, keeping it all in Creator 75 GB vault would be (421-75)×$0.04 = $13.84/month overage. Studio 1.5 TB flat $119 holds the whole year with 1 TB headroom. The Sermon Year Archive mini-app on /use-cases/sermons does that math for you: slide services per year, bitrate, and it tells you 'overage costs more than Studio by week 31.' That's the long-tail keyword 'church video archive storage cost' that no one else answers with vault math.
From pulpit to Short — the Tuesday workflow
Sunday: upload 3h via helper (1-min MKVs, verified before local delete). Sunday night: transcript finishes, FullStreamCaptions downloads SRT for YouTube chapters. Tuesday: media team opens /sessions/[id], sees 60 ranked moments (20/h × 3h), filters 'grace' via search_transcript → 8 hits, bulk-creates 8 verticals with Story preset (Poppins, blush), renders on helper, shares gallery link to pastor (Free 3 total). No one watched 3h. The biggest churches care because volunteers have 30 minutes on Tuesday, not 3 hours.
Why retention matters more than storage for churches
Twitch deletes a Sunday in 14 days, Opus Free in 3 days. Easter is 21 days after Palm Sunday — you need the 12 GB file on day 21 to pull the resurrection moment. Weaver Free 30d covers it, paid 180d covers Christmas to Easter (120 days). Every recording shows 'Deletes May 14' so the volunteer doesn't guess. After paid ends, grace 14d + read-only 30d where you can still download finished clips — then permanent delete unless billing restored. That's the trust biggest ministries need.
Questions that decide the purchase — answered before you ask
Can we fit a 3-hour service on Free?
At 1080p30 6 Mbps (≈8.1 GB) yes — Free 10 GB holds it with 1.9 GB left, and 2h transcript covers the message. At 1080p60 12 Mbps (≈16.2 GB) you need Creator 75 GB. Use the calculator on /vs-opus-clip with 180 min and your OBS bitrate to see instantly.
Do we need to transcribe the whole 3h?
No. Schedule transcribe for the sermon window: 00:30:00 to 02:00:00 (1.5h) via weaverclip_schedule_transcribe. You save 1.5h of transcript hours every Sunday — 78h a year, almost a Pro month.
Can we archive the full transcript as SRT for accessibility?
Yes. Every session with transcript shows SRT/VTT download above the transcript panel. It's stitched from transcript_chunks, same chunks that power 20/h. Download Sunday night, upload to YouTube, keep the .srt forever even after source deletes at 30/180d.
What about dual audio — house mix + pastor mic?
Each 1-min MKV contains video + the mic + computer audio tracks you enabled in OBS. The transcript uses the mixed audio; captions are word-timed. Download a 20-second test, play with both tracks, then record the 3h — same verification, same vault.
Try it with the video you already have.
Free holds a full 2–3h webinar at 6 Mbps for 30 days. Upload the whole thing, download the SRT, make clips later — no re-transcribe. Every plan shows the numbers before you pay.