Posted by Mike Kujbida on 06/13/07 16:55

On Jun 13, 12:09 pm, Erickson....@gmail.com wrote:
> New to all this and would appreciate help.
>
> We have a stage that has white drapes in the back with colored lights
> that shine on the drapes. On camera the colors are completely
> different than live. Yellow shows as green, etc.
>
> We have Hitachi cameras hooked to a Hitachi CCU and fed into a
> Panasonic MX-70 switcher. Camera has been white balanced. Color bars
> which the CCU generates seem ok.


My guess is that you did the white balance with ALL the stage lights
on, including any and all lights that had coloured gel in them which
will definitely throw your white balance off.
Try to get the lighting person to give you white light ONLY for white
balance purposes and I'm sure it'll look much better.
I videotape a lot of stage performances and this is what I always do
for a white balance.


> Also we have some big orange letters on stage and a person that stands
> in front of them for sermons. The person's skin tone looks orange on
> camera. Iris adjustments help somewhat but start washing out the
> person.


The reflection from the letters is spilling onto the person.
If possible, try moving the speaker further forward or the letters
back.
If this isn't possible, try to get him/her lit separately from the
letters.

Mike


> If anyone has any ideas I would appreciate it. As I am new I don't
> really know exactly what everyone needs to answer these question so if
> more info is required I'll provide whatever you need.
>
> Thank you

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