Calibrite ColorChecker Video Mega
Color control for videos - from recording to editing
Designed for those bigger, more expansive shots where you need a larger reference target, the ColorChecker Video Mega will speed up your color correction process and save you hours in post-production. Use it to set exposure, match multiple cameras, and maintain consistency in changing light so you can tell your story as perfectly as possible.
With an impressive size of 1020 x 1520mm, the Mega is the largest target within the ColorChecker Video family and an ideal tool for the following photographic shooting scenarios:
- Wide-angle shots: landscape, cityscape, individual sets
- Event filming: concerts, churches, sports, stage
- Aerial filming: drones
The ColorChecker Video Mega offers an extra-large format for effortless target acquisition at greater distances and wider angles. The Video Mega is designed for shooting where the distance between your camera and the subject is too great to capture a smaller target.
With this target, you don't have to move your camera closer to your subject or adjust the focal length of your lens. You can shoot in the same lighting conditions that your subject is in, and color distortions caused by ambient light are minimized.
The Calibrite ColorChecker Video Mega is the ideal color target for your video workflow. This two-sided target offers chromatic color chips, skin tone chips and gray reference chips on one side and a spectrally neutral white balance card on the other. This color target is perfect for checking before shooting and for longer distances.
The ColorChecker Video Mega 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 in the entire video workflow, from recording to editing.
The ColorChecker Video Mega 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 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 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
ColorChecker Video Charts make your 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 Mega offers:
Video 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. The design is optimized 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: 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.
support for third-party software
- ColorChecker Video Mega is supported by third-party software solutions to improve color correction and increase efficiency.
- DaVinci Resolve
- 3DLUT Creator
