CHANGING WHITE BALANCE

[methuenbill]

Two camera shoot one camera was set to Florescent lighting the other camera natural lighting. One cameras whites look good the other camera looks yellow.
How can I fix this?

[TimKennelly]

Special or IP Effect and use such as White Balance, Control Color and Control Image.

[Beachy]

If it was a long piece ie an hour, I would go thro' my color corrector then into the avio!

[jeffphilips]

I have never found the white balance to work very well. Is there a trick to get it to work?

[BobC]

Control Color always works much better than white balance for me.

[jeffphilips]

My experience as well. Glad I am not crazy.

[TimKennelly]

I have found making a copy using White Balance (assigning the color correctly) and then combining it with the original using Double Exposure set to Crossfade with no fade and adjusting the percentages can give good results some times.

Other times I have used Control Color (sometimes in conjunction with Control Image), but sometimes if it's off enough you cannot get really satisfactory results.

Using the Compare feature during the various Special/IP effects processes can really help get it close.

[JBrooks]

Actually, I have found the white balance effect to work great for me many times. You have to experiment with the position of the area you are trying to correct. Sometimes you have to place the area over a face to get a better flesh tone or even an area that you are not necessarily tring to correct. Also, I like to "warm up" the color temp with this effect even if the white balance was correctly set within the camera before the shoot. When shooting indoors especially, I ALWAYS manually white balance the camera .vs auto white. I too have used the control color and control image effect for tweaking and you can really achive great results with these ip effects.

Joel Brooks
MIT Video