Setting white balance for videos -- HELP!

Hi,

Complete tech and camera novice here. I record YouTube videos and on my video footage the lighting will change-- sometimes it gets a little white and sometimes it switches to yellow. It's driving me mad. The set up I use is below-- help

- I record using a Canon M50
- I always shoot inside
- I use two LED lights with light panel soft boxes
- I shoot sometimes in daylight and sometimes and night -- and the color change still happens during either time of day.
- I do have also have ambient lighting on
- I have the white balance set to auto

Should I use the white/gray card to set up a custom white balance? If so do I take a picture of the gray/white with the studio lights on?

Thank you!

hasinav wrote in post #19127723
Hi,

Complete tech and camera novice here. I record YouTube videos and on my video footage the lighting will change-- sometimes it gets a little white and sometimes it switches to yellow. It's driving me mad. The set up I use is below-- help

- I record using a Canon M50
- I always shoot inside
- I use two LED lights with light panel soft boxes
- I shoot sometimes in daylight and sometimes and night -- and the color change still happens during either time of day.
- I do have also have ambient lighting on
- I have the white balance set to auto

Should I use the white/gray card to set up a custom white balance? If so do I take a picture of the gray/white with the studio lights on?

Thank you!

Is this always in the same venue?

I would always shoot the gray card, and White Balance to that, in order to get truly 'neutral'.

If you are actually indoors, you might want to deliberately give a more warm tone by subtracting about 400K from whatever value you obtained via the gray card...the human brain is conditioned to think indoors lighting is warmer than truly neutral.

yup!