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Originally Posted by gaffer240
You generally use color correction to match inside lighting to outside eg Rosco 3204 or others in that series or outside light to indoors eg as Rosco 3401 (roscosun 85).
Lots of options here. If working in Daylight and you are indoors and you are useing 3200K lights then you need to color correct the lights to sunlight, or you could cover the windows with 85 or 85B(if it is still around) and convert outside sunlight to 3200K.
That said you do not have to worry about color correction if you are shooting indoors with no outside light, or outdoors at night as the white balance on the camara should handle it. In either case, if you are dealing with a camera filter wheel or adjustment, just set for indoors or 3200 K and have fun.
I have found that if all you are shooting is colored lighting on a group and no sunlight is present then the indoor settings will work fine and catch most of the color
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You also use color correction indoors to balance fixtures that have different color temperatures - I.E. a Source 4 incandescent at 3000-3200 degrees Kelvin, balanced to an arc lamp moving fixture and/or
HMI or Xenon follow spot at 5600 degrees Kelvin. The basic concept is that the video camera will want to "see" white, and may assume that the color of an incandescent light at 3200 kelvin , with no color filter, is reference white. Adding in an HMI or xenon follow spot, with it's higher color temperature, will result in the FS causing a performers face to look very blue, thus the need for color correction.
Note to all that the original post was specific in using "Video" in the description, thus I'm assuming that film speed is not going to be an issue (best check though !).
I use color correct in my Xenon follow spots to get the color of the lamp (which is something like 5600 degrees Kelvin) closer to the rest of the incandescent sources. Rosco and
Lee make assorted 1/8, 1/4, 1/2 and full CC's (3204,
etc.. in the Rosco line) but will sometimes simply throw in a stock R02 or R18, which is close enough to look good on video.
SB