Calibrite ColorChecker Video
Color control for videos - from recording to editing
The ColorChecker Video offers color balance and control for film production - from shooting to editing. It is exactly the same size as the original ColorChecker Classic at 215.9 x 279.4mm, but was developed specifically for use in the video sector.
The Calibrite ColorChecker Video is the ideal color target for your video workflow. This two-sided target features chromatic color chips, skin tone chips and gray reference chips on one side and a spectrally neutral white balance card on the other side. This color target is perfect for pre-shoot and post-shoot checks.
The ColorChecker Video gives you a worry-free, color-balanced and consistently neutral result with ideal camera exposure faster than ever before - giving you more time to find your creative look. It is an indispensable color tool that you won't want to be without and that saves you valuable time throughout the entire video workflow, from recording to editing.
The ColorChecker Video is a robust and stable color target specifically designed for video production. It contains a video color card on one side and a large, spectrally neutral white balance card on the other side.
The ColorChecker Video Target includes:
- Chromatic Colors: Six saturated and six desaturated color chips tailored to video production
- Skin tones: Six color chips from light to dark with different undertones
- Grayscale: Four major gradations for a consistent gray balance, including white, 40IRE gray, deep gray and high-gloss black reference chips
- Linear Grayscale: Six levels for a uniform gray balance, including highlights and shadows
- Lighting check chips: Black and white color chips on two corners to better assist in determining uniform illumination
- White Balance Target: Create an in-camera white balance to start with a neutral point for all captured footage.
Use for a variety of applications including:
- color corrections
- color adjustment
- gray balance
- Setting the perfect exposure
- color matching of multiple cameras
- Shooting and Editing in Mixed Light
ColorChecker Video Charts make your video workflow faster, more consistent and more color balanced. They enable everyone on your team - from producers to cinematographers to editors and colorists - to work with consistent color information. They save time from pre-production to production and help you achieve your creative look faster.
Achieving the right color balance and exposure for video footage can be challenging. Camera apertures don't always match perfectly. Ambient lighting conditions are constantly changing. Different cameras and lenses have different rendering, even if they're the same make and model. All of this leads to quality control challenges and increased post-production work for your colorist or editor.
This is what the ColorChecker Video offers:
Video Color Target : Speed up your color correction workflow by setting the ideal exposure and color balance whether you're shooting with one or multiple cameras. The color table includes a range of chips for chromatic color, skin tone chips, gray chips, and lighting check chips. It's designed for ideal performance when used with vectorscopes and waveforms, whether directly on camera or in software.
Chromatic Colors: two rows of six chromatic color chips, both saturated and desaturated, specifically designed to align with the color axis on a vectorscope. These colors provide two levels of color information to help you achieve an ideal color balance more quickly.
Skin tones: varying from light to dark with subtle undertones to better and more accurately reproduce skin tones. This row of chips is positioned on the outer edge of the target for easy alignment.
Wide Grayscale: four larger gradations for consistent gray balance, including white, 40IRE gray, deep gray, and glossy black. These levels are ideal for determining the correct exposure whether you're using a waveform, zebras, or faux colors. Use these levels to match the exposure and contrast of cameras you're adjusting and to ensure that midtones are reproduced correctly. These chips are positioned in the center of the test target to achieve maximum exposure, even when shooting wide.
Linear Grayscale: six color chips to achieve a uniform gray balance. This series is aimed at highlights and shadows.
Illumination check chips: black and white chips on two corners to better assist in determining uniform illumination across the entire target.
White Balance Target: A precise white balance ensures that the colors captured are true and provides a reference point for editing. The white balance reference on the back is a spectral, area reference preset that provides a neutral reference point for different lighting conditions that can occur during video recording. Because the target evenly reflects light across the entire visible spectrum, a custom in-camera white balance can correctly compensate for different lighting conditions.
With this chart you can:
- remove color casts
- Improve the color preview on the camera display so that your histograms are more reliable
- Make color correction and editing in post-production faster and easier because you no longer have to adjust each image individually.
Why can't I just use any white object for white balance?
White balancing with a regular piece of paper or other white/grayish object seems like a simple solution, but most objects are not neutral in all lighting conditions, let alone uniform. Inaccurate white balance will result in color casts and a lack of consistency between exposure conditions, making color correction extremely time-consuming.
Include ColorChecker Video Targets in every shot to make your video workflow faster, more consistent, balanced, and repeatable. This will save you time and money, and avoid costly mistakes and frustrating color corrections in post-production. And best of all, you'll get to your creative look faster, which is ideal because we all know how much you love being creative.
support for third-party software
- ColorChecker Video is supported by third-party software solutions to improve color correction and increase efficiency.
- DaVinci Resolve
- 3DLUT Creator
