I take lots of video in gymnasiums. The lighting color is very odd. So, I thought, why not use my Kodak 18% reflectance Neutral Test Card? I shot video of the card, with the card on the ground facing straight up at the lights in the gym ceiling. Later, in Vegas, I loaded the Color Corrector fX, clicked on the complementary eyedropper for the middle wheel, and then clicked on the middle of the image of the gray card.
When viewed on my calibrated external NTSC monitor, the color balance wasn't even close!
I tried various combinations of using the other two wheels (the shadow and highlight wheels), but finally gave up.
I would have thought that using a calibrated gray card would be the ultimate way to balance color, but I guess there must be a flaw in my reasoning, or my technique, or in the way the color correction tool works.
Am I missing something?
When viewed on my calibrated external NTSC monitor, the color balance wasn't even close!
I tried various combinations of using the other two wheels (the shadow and highlight wheels), but finally gave up.
I would have thought that using a calibrated gray card would be the ultimate way to balance color, but I guess there must be a flaw in my reasoning, or my technique, or in the way the color correction tool works.
Am I missing something?