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Adjusting white balance

Adjusting white balance

When shooting video, directors of photography often spend a long time getting the color temperature correct. They want the colors to look accurate, but a lot of times, when we get footage to play with, it is not accurate and we need to correct it. This is referred to as adjusting the White Balance. The White Balance actually refers to the color of the footage here. As we could see, there is a kind of like an orangish tint to everything. I can't really put my finger on why this is, but it just does look too warm to me. So what we can do is we can go to the Adjust category inside the Video Effects, and there are several color correction effects here. There is a several in Color Correction and Image Control as well. They're kind of spread all over the place, which is a little confusing. So we're going to take this chapter and look at some of these color adjustment tools, because really, as far as the look of your video is concerned, these color adjustment effects could really make a huge…

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