White Balance: The Secret To BETTER Looking Videos

[@profitpluto]

I’ve learned so much from your videos and went from being afraid of shooting SLOG3 to dialing in my workflows in run/gun situations. Keep doing what you do, it’s greatly appreciated.

[@plus1creator]

Zebra exposure transformed my videos for the better. Now I'm excited to nail my white balance every time, too.

[@plus1creator]

The one extra challenge I find is my Sony ZVe10 display isn't color-correct. I think I might invest in an external monitor that does have accurate color so I can do on-the-fly corrections.

[@seandewispelaere]

Great to hear about zebras helping your exposure, I can relate. I found the zve10 screen to be ok (maybe these white balance tips will be helpful) and external monitors can be great 🤙

[@lexindigital]

Sean, I got to say... Your explanation in the style of videos that you do, actually made it finally click in my head on various subjects. It might be that your videos allowed previously gathered information to fall into place with the help of your How and Why examples, plus the practical demonstrations. I am not sure, but it seem that your wording and explanations do resonate better with the way my brain thinks. In sports, I have observed that some coaches would try explaining a task (say gymnastics), but the person would fail to understand and do it as advised. Yet, all it takes is another coach to explain it in his own way and suddenly it clicks! Thanks for the content, lets see how much I can digest and use in my projects.

[@jimnorth9902]

Thanks!

[@seandewispelaere]

WOW! Thank you so much for this, really cool of you

[@LarsBergan]

Another full-packed video of knowledge! I am so grateful for you taking the time explaining by showing, but also at a level I can follow and understand 😊👌Now its time to take my camera and practice. Thank you Sean!!

[@seandewispelaere]

Much love, Lars 🤙 Keep me posted on how this treats you I think it’ll land well for your stuff (especially the sunset/sunrise shots)

[@LarsBergan]

@@seandewispelaere Absolutely, that was exactly what I thought to myself; yupp, what I need to work on next time 😆👍

[@Ailandscapes]

I was totally following until 16:29 where you gave the two examples of the light sources behind you. I was expecting the complete opposite. Why is it when you set the cameras white balance at a cool 4000, and you brought down the streaky light kelvins down, they appeared more orange?? I was expecting them to appear cooler. And literally the opposite for the spot light.

[@erikender2785]

Hi, what about if you shoot real estate video when all the room has different color in house? Thanks

[@OGPRODDY]

same thing i’m wondering

[@sdtimeless]

How does an nd filter effect these settings and how far off 5600k do you need to adjust to compensate?

[@jimwoodsgolf]

Great explanation! Thank you and keep them coming!

[@studiotwentyone]

Brilliant video, very easy to understand.. Thank you

[@asiadmajeed]

And he’s back. Nice to see you with another educational video man. I try to follow the tips you give to get out of the comfort zone with “auto” even though I might not do that every time. Your video often gives helpful insight. Let’s catch up some day. 🤘

[@seandewispelaere]

👊 let me know how that goes for you, game-changers for me. Count me in and I hope all is well on your end

[@asiadmajeed]

@@seandewispelaere 4 sure. Will reach out

[@becamilano]

Hi Sean, thank you so much for the magnificent lesson. It will help me a lot. If you could answer a question of mine, I would be very grateful. I record a lot of content in my kitchen that has a lot of glass and windows and the incidence of light is very high. What color temperature would I put on my lights and what level of WB would I put on my camera before I started fine-tuning?

[@seandewispelaere]

Hey Beca, thank you and I'm glad it landed for you. I took a look at some of your videos and I think your white balance looks really good. Assuming you're in AWB? I don't know if I'd suggest changing anything, BUT if I was going to manually set the white balance for what I'm seeing in your videos, I'd set it at 5600K and then possibly make a few minor tweaks in post if it needed it

[@ZooDinghy]

This is really good! You have put a lot of effort in there! Thanks! 🙏

[@seandewispelaere]

Much appreciated

[@Ailandscapes]

I was totally following until 16:29 where you gave the two examples of the light sources behind you. I was expecting the complete opposite. Why is it when you set the cameras white balance at a cool 4000, and you brought down the streaky light kelvins down, they appeared more orange?? I was expecting them to appear cooler. And literally the opposite for the spot light.

[@kelly.mondragon]

Best video on white balance I've seen, at least for an amateur like me. Thank you.

[@Ailandscapes]

I was totally following until 16:29 where you gave the two examples of the light sources behind you. I was expecting the complete opposite. Why is it when you set the cameras white balance at a cool 4000, and you brought down the streaky light kelvins down, they appeared more orange?? I was expecting them to appear cooler. And literally the opposite for the spot light.

[@AlexSTR]

This is a great tutorial how to control white balance to look natural. I usually trying for neutral too much which makes my shots not right sometimes. And it was hard to figure why. Thank you!

[@seandewispelaere]

Right?! I wish I knew the things in the video sooner

[@shiftintosunshine]

Such a great video. Totally demystified white balance for me. Thank you.

[@seandewispelaere]

That was the goal, thanks so much for letting me know that it helped!

[@mattm7426]

Great work 👏🏻 subbed!

[@Ailandscapes]

I was totally following until 16:29 where you gave the two examples of the light sources behind you. I was expecting the complete opposite. Why is it when you set the cameras white balance at a cool 4000, and you brought down the streaky light kelvins down, they appeared more orange?? I was expecting them to appear cooler. And literally the opposite for the spot light.

[@Virus.exe69]

awesome video man

[@Squidpaws-]

8:55 I was just about to ask about custom presets. It's so annoying that you can't custom white balance in these modes with sony. This is why I've always just used AWB. Ok, back to the video... I think you may just convince me to start using manual WB...

[@seandewispelaere]

I know, it’s the worst. Oh?! How’d I do…?

[@Squidpaws-]

@@seandewispelaere feels like I just graduated from White Balance University! Thanks brah 🙏 🤙 I'm definitely going to start playing with manual WB.

[@Trabelables]

thank you for this tips

[@TheAshantidutch]

just wanted to say thank you for he video, for me I have my own youtube channel, have made a few vids but now have invested in a decent rig, so want to maximise what I do, thanks

[@vlad_bisu]

Damn sir. Thank you for this. I have good eyes so I was always relying on them. But everything makes much more sense now and I can't wait to test it out on the next gig.

[@vaib.shfilms]

Love your jackets man!

[@OceanHo]

YOU ARE A GOOD TEACHER!

[@nhull9135]

Another amazing tutorial! Thanks!! Is there anything we should do to account for temperature of room lighting when editing in post?

[@NorwayHikesTrails]

Nice information. 😊

[@seandewispelaere]

Thank you

[@Jambo1999]

Good examples of what goes wrong with AWB. I have a set of "Warm Cards" which were handy in setting an artificial warmer or cooler look to match a scene.

[@seandewispelaere]

Oh that’s really interesting, I might check that out…

[@salahgassim]

For me as deutan color blind, hue doesnt make much of a difference to me. Clips at 06:53 look identical to me. White balance is what i can learn from this video. Thanks for the great content ❤

[@chromiqa]

the same issue for me, i’m a deutan color blind and color grading is a challenge for me

[@DOANTALK]

Thank you so much!!!

[@nobis64]

Sean, great videos as usual! Can you recommend a soft "gray" card for white balance that is perfect for my Sony ZV E1??? thanks!

[@paulmitchellphoto]

Good video man, thank you. Trying to up my video and photo game this year and this will help.

[@Mraz75]

Thank you now i understand the importance of white balance. You have explicitly explain in detail how to understand the kelvin scale.

[@Ailandscapes]

I was totally following until 16:29 where you gave the two examples of the light sources behind you. I was expecting the complete opposite. Why is it when you set the cameras white balance at a cool 4000, and you brought down the streaky light kelvins down, they appeared more orange?? I was expecting them to appear cooler. And literally the opposite for the spot light.

[@soholingo]

Aren't these numbers backward? I thought the higher kelvin the warmer the the light. 4:17

[@seandewispelaere]

The in-camera ones are, yes, they work backwards in contrast to light source Kelvin (which is a large part of what makes this stuff confusing in my opinion)

[@MaciejBanach]

Thank you so much for the great tutorial about WB. May I ask what type of monitor you are using with the Sony A7CII?

[@alisonandguywildlifephotograph]

Great job 👏 👍

[@brandoncastillo7973]

Quick question if I have an ND filter do I adjust the white balance before or after adding the ND filter? Sorry for the dumb question.

[@seandewispelaere]

Not a dumb question at all, definitely AFTER 🤙

[@manuelfigueroa894]

Thank you, Thank you and Thank you finally well explained. Will update comments after trying this. Just sub.

[@Treborray]

cant believe this info was free

[@IraGaar]

if you use slog for video should you set your white balance before switching to slog?

[@seandewispelaere]

You could yea makes sense OR (depending on what camera you have) you can use User LUTs or the gamma assist

[@IraGaar]

@@seandewispelaere thank you. you make great camera trainings. may the algorithm bless you!

[@ayoubthegreat]

Have you ever tried the chromatic adaptation module in DaVinci Resolve?

[@sgfernandezclk]

Actually, the Sony camera sensor cap is also gray. Can it be used for custom white balance? (as a gray card)

[@vasile.stancu]

Wait. I’m confused. On cameras, the lower the kelvin grade is - the warmer, but on video lights is precisely the opposite: the lower the kelvin grade, the blueish. How do you match those, then??

[@sauravkr]

Great depth and detail. Your content could be better if it's cogent. This could easily be 10 mins video than over 30 mins.

[@anopasilver]

thank you

[@coffeewithdamian]

Exposure video is not showing up!

[@Michail95i2]

With looks like this, you need to play bad guys in movies. Very cool type and appearance for a movie

[@Diego_Cabrera]

I bet sam sulek also watches your videos haha

[@FlagnarBoobz]

Question is, why is it so fucking difficult to set the right balance. Why is it not automatic every time? This is such an annoying aspect a filmmaker shouldn’t have to think about when these cameras cost thousands. It seems really stupid

[@Sl1deflo]

#fiftysixhundred