> > "Dynamic Video" wrote ...

> > > I want to use the xl1 as the main camera, but the pictures

> > > don't match, I'm white blancing on a warm card and all

> > > in the same light but the xl1 still looks warmer and richer

> > > then the gl1s any suggestion or should I just wait till post

> > > and fix it there?

> "David Ruether" wrote ...

> > Do it in post - it is both easier and better (after doing the best

> > you can on-site...). For a multi-camera Premiere edit example

> > with several different model cameras, see:

> > www.David-Ruether-Photography.com/multi-camera.htm

> > www.David-Ruether-Photography.com/multi-camera2.htm.

"Richard Crowley" wrote ...

> Or experiment with different white-balance cards?

> "I'm balancing with a warm card...it still looks warmer."

> See the problem here?

>

> It is possible that you are working on a long-form project

> and/or lack real-time video manipulation, or have slow

> computer in which case doing it in post will take days of

> rendering. Evaluate your options and apply common sense.

Even when rendering all of a 2-hour video on a 450MHz PC,

including not only color balancing, but gamma, brightness

and contrast adjustments, rendering Mini-DV would likely

take less than 1/2 day (possibly a LOT less...). A faster

machine would of course cut this time further, as would not

needing to render all of the footage (as when one camera is

"correct", and the footage from the others is modified to

match it). Also, there is no need to modify all of the raw

footage before the rest of the edit is finished (so only the

footage used needs to be modified...).

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David Ruether

d_ruether@hotmail.com

http://www.David-Ruether-Photography.com