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Color Balancing Three Cameras

jerry
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Apr 4, 2005, 2:11 PM

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I'm shooting a documentary with three diffferent cameras. When I color balance manually, the subject still looks slightly different on each camera. Am I doing someting wrong or is it impossible to get the subject to look exactly the same on each camera?

One of the cameras happens to be a Sony DVX100A. I notice that when I color balance in a room lighted with tungsten and with sun coming in through a big window, there is a blueish cast to the picture. Is this normal? Or should I put the lights next to the window, aim them in the same direction as the sun and then color balance? Sort of overpower the sun temperature?

Bob Hudson
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Apr 4, 2005, 7:44 PM

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Prosumer camcorders just do not have the level of control needed to match three of them. To certain extent you do the best you can and then color correct during editing.

That blue you are seeing is normal for mixed light. An orange gel over the window will help match that light to the tungsten or you can use a blue gel in front of the tungstens to match the daylight.

Hal Landen, who hosts this forum, has nice white balance card that lets you get a warmer look: it's sold as part of a video course: http://www.videouniversity.com/shooter.htm - in addition to using a white balanced card you might also want to shoot a color chart at the start of each segment so you having a standard reference to use when matching color during in editing.