XF300 Color Problem

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djkoz

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I shot video at a college hockey rink for a figure skating event held by a non profit. I used the Canon XF300 and a friend used a mid level Sony camera. We both white balanced before the shoot. I shot with the Canon Custom Picture File Cine V. I am not certain what the lighting was, maybe florescent maybe sodium vapor, I assume it is standard rink lighting.

After the shot I compared the video in Premiere and noticed that his colors were much truer than mine. In particular, a bright yellow line at the juncture of the wall and ice appeared green in my video and yellow in his, yet the skin tones in both appeared to be pretty close and accurate.

Any ideas as to why this is happening?

Thanks,

Dan
 
Show us what you mean to be able to see if anything's wrong. It's probably just a difference in the colour science of the two manufacturers, every company renders colour in a unique way, and Canon is considered to be at the top in terms of how pleasing they render colour especially for skin tones, while sonys are usually rated near the bottom end (the newest fs7/f5/f55/f35/f65 ones high-end are the exception). It's subjective of course. What I personally find is that Sony colours are "correct, true to reality" while Canon is not accurate, and that inaccuracy makes it look pleasing to people, it looks dreamy, filmic, rather than true and videoy.
 
If it was the factory preset for Cine V, that is a semi-flat look that is not really supposed to be a final image - the assumption is that it will be graded or at least the exposure, contrast, saturation, etc. adjusted in post. In addition, I always found that CineV skews a bit green as you saw.
 
Thanks for your reply. I've been busy editing a video and have not had time to post the images for comparison. I will do so in the next day or two.

Thanks, again.

Dan
 
I think I found the problem. I shot the sports video over two days inside an ice arena. On day one I white balanced and set the Custom Picture file to the Cine V setting. On day two, I changed the CP setting but did not white balance again after that since the lighting was the same. However, I think this may have been a mistake. In some tests I did at home, I noticed if I white balanced on one CP setting and then changed the CP file, the colors came out wrong. I shot a photography/video color card and then looked at the video itself as well as the various color values in the RGB Parade. Perhaps there is a better way of doing this comparison, but being new to video, I am not familiar with any other process.
 
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