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Color Bars
What are they and why do you need them? Color bars are an electronically generated signal
that presents bars of
 red, blue, green, yellow, cyan, and magenta, gray, black, and white. These are
used at the beginning of a videotape as a reference so that the playback machine and
monitor can be calibrated to insure accurate color saturation and balance. The Society of
Motion Picture and Television Engineers (SMPTE) established the color bar standards.
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explanation on how to use them.
Warming Cards
Under certain lighting
conditions, neither auto or manual white balance will provide you with a
pleasing color balance. For instance, if the lighting source for the
shot is the warm glow from a fireplace, white balancing on a card or
object that is white will render the scene with a bluish cast . In
this lighting situation, you will obtain a more pleasing result by
performing manual white balancing on a card that is bluish rather
than white. In effect, you are "tricking" the camera's circuitry into
producing a warmer tone. On the other hand, if you want your camera to
produce an image that is colder, more bluish, you need to white balance
on a yellow or orange card. We have provided you with several warming
and cooling cards. Simply print them out and cut to size.
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Without Warming Card |
With Warming Card
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CLICK HERE
for the warming & cooling cards
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