shhmatt

makemkv is great for blu-rays. mplayer is great for dvds. ffmpeg is great for converting the videos to the format you want. mplayer and ffmpeg are free as well.

I am pretty sure the Govies will never cut people to stay in Class A, So if the membership numbers ever add up to over 65, I think you will see an Open Class Govenaires.

My guess is that the high camera's audio feed comes from the same source, but is getting mixed incorrectly after it is copied separately to the multi and high camera streams.

They don't market it as a Finals DVD... The World Champpionships of DCI is the entire weekend. The event titles: DCI World Championship Prelims, DCI World Championship Semifinals, DCI World Championships World Class Finals. Hence, "2013 World Championship Blu-Ray" does not specify a single event, but rather a collection of events. Thus the marketing is for exactly what the disc already are.

The nature of the activity is to be viewed in person. The judges are not judging a video of the corps performance, they are judging the performance in person.

Based on the description and marketing of the DCI championships discs, I get no impression that the video and audio for the DVDs and BluRays are only from Finals. I would hazard a guess that the video clips are spliced from all available photoage. Using that stradegy allows for the camera crews to focus on different parts of the show each night and gives the editor the most choices for the final cut. DCI corps are so well practiced and consistant at their shows, that I would also guess that there is inter-song audio mixing going on, not just inter-show, but I can't be sure. I don't think it is false advertising or detertrimental to DCI or the corps featured, since it is impossible for the video to live up to the live viewing. There just aren't enough pixels and fast enough bit streams to support that deep a level of interaction right now. The high-camera video (not audio) is the only photoage that I can think of that is most likely entirly from one night.

Haven't even recieved my copy yet. The number of shipping days until 12/25 are few, and I even ordered before DCA Championships... I hope you get word back about the audio sync problem.

Is there a way that I can purchase prints or digital copies of any of these images?

Which do we care more about as spectators? As people trying to grow Drum Corps?

So, if Star United were to take their Mini Corps performance from 2011, 2012, or 2013, and perform it as an undersized Class A corps, would they suddenly not be entertaining anymore?

When I visited Spirit during a lunch break, they were more interested in eating with their friends and showing off what had just arrived in the mail, than checking their phones. In fact, members were having such vigorous conversations, that it was hard to understand anyone standing more than a few steps away.

1. I don't think every corps considers their home show an income for a corps. I think it would be safe to say that some corps consider their home show a success if it comes out even or only slightly over budget. 2. I thought DCA required that the corps be payed if they perform, even if the show didn't make enough money to pay them. In other words, the show sponsor would lose money if they didn't get enough ticket sales to pay the corps.

Their system is just different, it is not really better or worse. There are works that are public domain outside of the US, that are still under copyright in the US. The Rite of Spring just happens to fall into the class of works that are public domain in the US and not outside the US. In just 8 years, The Rite of Spring (along with all of Stravinsky's works) will be public domain in Canada, the EU, and Japan (assuming that international copyright laws don't change by then)

From the IMSLP's entry for Rite of Spring (http://imslp.org/wik...vinsky,_Igor%29)

Does MBI come out ahead or break even when they travel East before Labor Day?

A trip that claimed at least one bus from one of those corps. :ph34r:/>

That city is in Missouri... Here is the Maryland one, cooler than Missouri. http://www.weather.c...D+USMD0010:1:US

I know that it was in Class A, but the Govenaires won on G horns in 2006 as well.

My understanding is that a mini corps can use their associated corps insurance, if the associated corps is participating at DCA. But not every mini corps has an associated corps.

Based on the preliminary quotes that I got from Yamaha last fall for their marching horns, Crown is selling their used horns for more than the quoted price I got. (And I only looked at Crown's store today, the last time I looked at all of the used DCI horns on sale, they were pretty much the same price) But take those preliminary quotes with a grain of salt, we never got past the preliminary stages of looking at horns.

That has been done multiple times before by other corps, and I agree that it is a wonderful tool to have the ability to use.

With the percussion encore camera, we can finally see the camera that he was wearing for this one. It is at the 7:58 mark

This is the 2nd year of the Friday/Saturday format. It did not switch though, last year was S. St. Paul followed by St. Peter. This format also provides a huge turnout at the Drum Corps Bar.

That, and people who have some idea of how the back side of the fan network is working, figure out work-arounds for the problems, without telling anyone how they got around it. For example, my feed for Finals kept freezing up until I put in a 5 minute delay from the live action. While I didn't get to see every corps in the exact moment it was happening, I didn't have to reload the website. (I did switch back to 'live' for scores though />)

They do show up for me now, they weren't when I posted that.... strange... oh well. Are there plans to get more of the Class A Finals that BVP recorded up as well, or just the Open Class corps?