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How to Set Custom White Balance for Video with a Grey Card - YouTube
Channel: Think Media
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today we're gonna be talking about white
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balance and how it can actually improve
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the quality of your video and I'm gonna
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show you exactly how to set your custom
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white balance in your camera using a
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grey card let's get it moving you gotta
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just press record hey I'm not a Moute
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would think media and before we get into
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this video all about white balance I
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want to kind of explain to you guys what
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white balance is and why it's so
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important for your videos now in simple
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terms setting your white balance tells
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your camera exactly what colors are
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accurate so your reds are gonna be red
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your blues blue your greens are green
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and whites are white that's why it's
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called white balance so if you want to
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get accurate colors when filming your
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videos you're gonna want to make sure
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that your white balance is set correctly
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so we're outside now and we've set our
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white balance to cloud in you can see
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that the colors look really good really
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natural and now that I've changed it to
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tungsten you can see that the colors
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just don't look natural there's a crazy
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blue tint going on this is why you need
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to set the correct white balance now
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your camera's have some presets for
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white balance and so if we look in this
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a Canon menu we can see that it has some
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for daylight we can see that there is
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one for shade there's one for cloudy and
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there's tungsten light now these are all
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just set to different Kelvin
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temperatures so daylight is actually set
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to fifty two hundred Kelvin and cloudy
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right here is set to six thousand Kelvin
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tungsten light bulbs which is often the
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lamps in your home that is sent at 3200
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Kelvin so these presets make it really
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easy for you to click on what lighting
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you're in and the camera will
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automatically adjust to that now this
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doesn't work a hundred percent of the
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time because if you're using LED lights
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sometimes when they say 5200 Kelvin on
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the back of the LED light sometimes
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there's a pink hue or green hue and
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they're not 100% accurate and that's
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exactly why you would set custom white
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balance using a gray card even if you're
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filming outside sometimes the daylight
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preset isn't 100% accurate because if
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you're shooting in the morning or at
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noon or at sunset the color is actually
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really different throughout all those
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times and so cameras just set the preset
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to 5200 because that's a great kind of
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middle balance for shooting in the day
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it'll work most of time but again using
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a gray card we'll get 100% accurate
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colors so you might say hey Nolan why
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don't I just use the automatic white
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balance on the camera well the simple
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answer is that when you're filming with
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auto white balance the white balance can
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change during your shot while you're
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recording and you do not want that so
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that's why I always recommend people to
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use a manual or custom white balance
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setting a quick power tip for you guys
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is to set your white balance last the
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reason you want to do this is because
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when you're setting up your lights you
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might use diffusers you might bounce the
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light off a wall or maybe it's coming
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through some curtains and all those
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things that the light are passing
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through or bouncing off of are going to
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affect the color temperature all right
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we're gonna get into the tutorial and
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I'm gonna show you how to set a custom
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white balance specifically on a Sony
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camera and a canon camera but really
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these things are going to apply to most
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cameras on the market but first give
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this video a thumbs up and in the
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comments below if you use a gray card I
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want you to comment yes and if you don't
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use a grey card comment know and if you
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don't have a gray card there is a link
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in the description where you can pick
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one up and you are gonna need this gray
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card in order to set your custom white
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balance alright so first we're gonna set
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a custom white balance on the Canon 90 D
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and the first thing you actually need to
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do is take a photo where that main light
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source is coming in you want that main
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light source to hit your gray card so
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Tony holds out the gray card we're gonna
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snap a photo right here and we got a
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good photo so we're gonna head into the
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menu system and go over to white balance
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and select custom white balance right
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there alright so you can see it's using
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the last photo that we took which is
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perfect and it's gonna use that photo to
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set the custom white balance and so here
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we can see that it set white balance too
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and that little icon there is the custom
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white balance so now we need to go back
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into movie mode and then what we're
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going to do is hit the Q and if we hit
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the K here this is where our white
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balance options are and you see that
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icon again for custom white balance you
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want to make sure that is selected and
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there we go we have our custom white
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balance set Tony looks great the colors
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look great now everything is going to be
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accurate alright so now we're going to
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use the Sony camera and we're using a
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Sony a 65 hundred for this but most Sony
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cameras
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be the same exact way to do this so
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first we are going to hit the menu
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button and on the 11th page over we see
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white balance so if we select that we
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incandescent is selected causing a major
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blue shift to this image so we're gonna
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want to change this by scrolling all the
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way down to custom setup now that we're
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over it we'll hit the center button and
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we see that it says to click the center
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button again to capture data of central
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area of screen so with the grey card in
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the center of the screen with that light
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coming in on the gray card we hit the
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center button and boom it's set so now
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we can back out go into our movie mode
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and we can see that the colors look good
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and everything is accurate that's it for
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this video I will see you guys
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