Two recordings?

[GeneN]

Hi everyone,
I have been recording sermons at our church for the past year. Thanks to many members of this forum, who have frequently answered my questions to help to accomplish this!
My current question is this. Typical sermon is about 50 minutes long. It usually includes about 45 minutes of message, then altar call, then closing prayer. End of service. I have been recording using audacity, burning a few CDs immediately after service, but then editing and burning more CDs to be available by next Sunday. I also convert to MP3 and load the edited version to our website.
There is interest in making perhaps six or eight copies immediately available after service, for child care workers, Sunday school teachers, and so forth. We would, of course, need to get a CD duplicator to be able to make numerous disks simultaneously.
My concern is this. Even with a CD duplicator, if I wait until the end of service, there is still the matter of saving the service, burning one CD from the laptop, and then inserting it into the CD burner. So I imagine there would be at least an eight minute lag until copies are available.
One option would be to stop recording at the beginning of the altar call. This would give about five more minutes of time to make the initial CD and so forth.
However, I would still like to have the entire service, for the website, the edited version, and so forth.
So my question is, is it possible, using audacity or another program, to be able to have both a shorter version of the sermon, for immediate use, and the full version for later use? My only thought is to use a splitter on the soundboard output, record to two computers, one for each purpose.
Any thoughts?
Thanks again to everyone for your help over the past year.
Gene

[tropicalfish]

My opinion is that CD's are an inconvenience
It'd be easier if you just push out the edited version to the web instead of having two separate versions and a distribution of CDs. Should cut down on costs.

Think about it: Unless your staff are going to listen to the sermons on their car for 50 minutes, they most likely won't play it in their car.
They'll most likely have internet access at home so they can go online and play it.

[pdc]

I am not selling CD gear at all anymore. Most of our churches are recording to hard disk or flash drives and then putting it on their site, a sermon server, etc. If people REALLY want to get a copy and will REALLY take time to listen, they will listen online or listen to the MP3 you attach to an email. If they do not have a computer, that is another story. Buying one or two people a cheap MP3 player is much cheaper than making the church budget for CD gear and maintenance on duplicators, blank media (which is often wasted), etc.

Our church has an app for all smart phones and iPads, allowing for users to listen to sermons, read or listen to the bible and read the church news letter. There are services out there that allow you to do a drag and drop design. Google is your friend.

[Jay M]

There are many things you can do:

1. Make people wait a week. Back when cassette was the only option, we had a faithful volunteer who would makes copies of the message during the week, then on the following Sunday make them available to the people who couldn't be in the main service the week before.

2. Make people wait 20 minutes for a CD. I would assume that most people who are serving every Sunday aren't the first to leave. If they really want the CD, then waiting 20 minutes isn't too bad. The bigger issue, is do you want to be busy burning CDs after the service during prime fellowship time?

3. You have to research this, but it seems like I remember that Nero has the ability to burn to multiple CD recorders, so could build a huge tower PC with 8 recorders that you record directly into. As soon as you hit the stop button, you will be ready to burn 8 CDs.

We still produce lots of CDs for the older people. There is a new class that just started in our church that is mostly early 20s to early 30s, and at the beginning we made a stack of CDs of the previous week for free, or a suggested donation, and there was almost no interest.

Before you spend $1000 or so, you might want ask what people would prefer, or if they won't mind waiting a week.

~Jay