Continually having to white balance?

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Kong37

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I'm shooting at 24p in a concert environment with lighting that is continually changing. I keep on having to white balance like after every 5 minutes due to drastic color shifts, is this normal? It's not set to a preset white balance so i'm doing it manually. Any suggestions or comments would be much appreciated, thanks fellow dvx users :)
 
one answer is that it's ok for the colors to change on the subjects during a concert. just use the tungsten white balance preset.
 
JY_Blue has offered a good suggestion. I only add that a preset would be a starting point in my mind and would suggest manual WB with white light (tungsten by nature, but ? is in the room that could affect) from un-filtered fixtures at the venue... then definitely leave it alone during the show.

brian wells
 
problem with manual WB is that on stage color temps can be so wide ranging, what do you use as a baseline when the lead singer is bathed in red light, the drummer in blue, the guitarist in green?
 
If you keep white balancing, your viewers will think they are on a Lawrence Welk set instead of a rock concert. The goal of white balancing is to represent what our eyes see. A red stage should look red. Balance to tungsten (?) and leave it alone.
 
JY_Blue, you've got a good point. What you're saying makes sense.

A video engineer I recently worked for had an entirely different perspective for camera setup during a corporate theatre party. There we WB'd all the cameras to a white card held by a person standing on a 6500K-balanced LED dance floor. LD was using tungsten-balanced source four leco's, 48 smartlights, and fiberoptic drape in addition to IMAG center stage.

Production determined to manual wb, but this wasn't necessarily Hollywood. This was Houston. I cannot say what the better decision would have been, whether to preset or manual, but in this circumstance the decision made by an individual with more experience than me in the area of engineering events with complex and revolving lighting designs and therefore and is the basis of my suggestion.

Hope this helps clarify.
 
Brian,

sounds like different situations calling for different solutions and rather than a factor of Hollywood v Houston. I shoot indie bands as a hobby and am making an educated guess that the situation described above more resembles a dark small club with constantly shifting light colors on stage than a corp party with a well lit dance floor.

Congrats on the gig. Hope you're enjoying the show.
 
Thank you all for the comments, i'm getting my answers just through reading your conversations on the topic. Thanks again :)
 
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