Club Blue

Just looking for some ideas regarding the drill of this. You can go ahead and sync it to your Club Blue if you want, it should work fairly well... my internet's really annoyingly random, so my efforts to sync it are hit-and-miss. Do you think some of the later slower forms should open up a bit more? I kind of like them closed but I can see the merit in opening them a bit. (also ignore the last set, it's under construction)

micromarching.com/preview/stryfe

Actually when I try to sync mine to that preview, the drill gets way too fast (because it's actually running smoothly). That speaks for how bad my internet is. you can get the general idea of it, though. ;P

Fixed the first six or so measures, the loud part, to match with the music. After that, use your imagination and just evaluate the drill for me plox :D

I didn't try syncing it yet- trust me, it gets messy before you get the final product to click, but I've seen enough to give some advice-

Things you'll want to know if you haven't already figured it out-
the show preview always plays the drill a little faster than the editor- wreaking havok with sync attempts. Pick one view or the other to usse for your final product- editor window is easier to deal with, but if you get it to sync in the preview it will look a little nicer.

Don't try to sync to steaming media unless you make sure that the audio is completely buffered or you'll drive yourself nuts- better yet, download a copy of the audio file locally to your computer abd use that to sync- then when you do your video editing, you can import the same audio file and all you should have to worry about is getting it to start playing in the right spot.

I don't think you necessarily need to open things up in the last few sets. It does, however, look like your forms always seem to balance towards the right side fo the field. This isn't necessarily a problem, depending on where you intend to go in the rest of the show- and it may even be your intend to stay in certain parts of the field at certain times. This is less a criticism than it is just pointing out something to keep an eye on. Use your judgement, and I'd just advise to keep this factor in the back of your mind when you do.

I don't think you have to open the forms up, but i wouldn't mind the first couple being a little more spaced out. And as vinny said, it seems to go towards the right side a lot.

It would be better in the future to let users know exactly what your syncing to, and where you are syncing to. Club Blue didn't seem much of a description at first. But I'm guessing your at the beginning. It starts out good, then it could use some definition on forms, and probably I would suggest starting with the flag work now and don't save that for the end.
Also I don't know how you guys sync to streaming videos/audio on youtube and google. I have to get my audio first then cut the chunk out I want. Then have it open in windows media player and continually play it.

Well, I didn't bother going all out with the description of what I was syncing to because it's not very important right now, the drill should be able to stand for itself. I'm fine with the details of syncing it. I had to sync it in the editor to figure out where I wanted the sets to start because the section after the opening is a little loose in terms of beat definition for me.

Yeah, saving the flag work for the end is kind of my bad habit. And I didn't notice I was so centered on one part of the field, thanks -- I think I'm gonna move it left in the next sets now.

Alright, bump. I am rather greedy, but a little more input would be nice now that I have more or less the entire show finished. reactions?

( micromarching.com/preview/stryfe )