Wow Dale! You are prolific, cool shots! You've been higher than I ever have climbing, did come very close a couple times on a paraglider but, I was just sitting there . . . brings me to my next topic.
I will be building my next edit with the useful constructive criticism you all have shared, especially you Allen, BIGAI07, thank you. I checked out Trents stuff and definitely got some ideas on edits. When I was a competitive paraglider pilot my best friend was and is a commercial jet pilot, now more FAA liaison for Frontier and he is type rated and owns a few planes, like a bi-plane, bush . . .Asking him to join me for a YouTube video. He's got big balls too, lol I used to be a flying photographer, here he is as we banked hard opposite one another climbing in a narrow thermal. I have a shot of his wing collapsing at cloud base running out of inertia while tumbling backwards over his canopy. Assymetric SAT is the acro name for the maneuver he was attempting, was quite a moment.
I'm digging for music with a more varied tempo to meld with some long slower shots and to back off on complete beat synching but still have a few quick moves too. As I know I tried too hard to blend music beats with clip changes I was not completely pleased with my results either and I came up with these moves to help. To hold that beat, you have more options then just changing clips, you can initiate a post production added zoom/position, or coordinate an action in the footage itself with the beat, ie initiate a sharp yaw move with a beat. For me, I over did these moves a bit but, I think they are still appropriate used more sparingly . . . On the other side of the coin, I started out never cutting at all, just full twitchy uncut flights. Here's my best early effort with a drone in one of the most special places to me in the world, near Moab in castle valley, I've climbed all the towers in the video, Castelton, the coolest one, 4 times and one failed attempt when I was a rookie . . .