Calibrite ColorChecker Video

Specifically designed for video production work, the Calibrite ColorChecker Video is an all-in-one full size durable and rigid colour target to make your workflow faster and ensure consistent and more colour balanced results. This double-sided colour calibration tool provides chromatic colour chips, skin tone chips and grey reference chips on one side and a spectrally neutral white balance card on the other side. This larger colour target is perfect for pre-camera checks and wider shots.

Calibrite ColorChecker Video Key Features:

• Characterised as a double-sided colour calibration tool
• Provides chromatic colour chips, skin tone chips and grey reference chips
• Integrated 60% White Balance Card
• Sized specifically for studio and on-location productions
• Enhanced colour preview on your camera’s display with reliable histograms
• Ideally suited to pro-level production and post-production workflows
• Suited to colour grading, colour balancing, and grey balancing
• Great for setting the perfect exposure and colour matching multiple cameras
• Ability to shoot and edit specific to mixed lighting

Expanded Calibrite ColorChecker Video Key Features:

Video Colour Target

Speed up your colour grading workflow by achieving ideal exposure and colour balance, whether shooting with one camera or multiples. This colour chart includes a series of chromatic colour chips, skin tone chips, grey chips and illumination check chips. The layout is designed for ideal performance when used with vectorscopes and waveforms, whether on camera or in software.

Chromatic Colours: two rows of six chromatic colour chips, both saturated and desaturated, specifically designed to align with the colour axis on a vectorscope. These colours provide two levels of colour information to more quickly achieve an ideal colour balance.

Skin Tones: ranging from light to dark with subtle undertones to better reproduce accurate flesh tones. This row of chips is positioned on the outer edge of the target for easy alignment.

Large Grey Levels: four larger steps for even grey balance, including white, 40IRE grey, deep grey and high gloss black. These levels are ideal for determining proper exposure whether you use a waveform, zebras, or false colours. Use these levels to align the exposure and contrast of cameras you are matching and ensure that mid-tones are rendered accurately. These chips are positioned in the centre of the test target for maximum exposure, even on a wide set.

Linear Grayscale: six colour chips for achieving even grey balance. This row addresses highlight and shadow regions.

Illumination Check Chips: black and white chips at two corners to better assist in determining even illumination across the target.

White Balance Target

Starting with an accurate white balance ensures the colours you capture are true and provides a point of reference for post-shoot editing. The White Balance target found on the reverse side is a spectrally flat target that provides a neutral reference point across mixed lighting conditions that you encounter during a video shoot. Since the target reflects light equally across the visible spectrum, creating an in-camera custom white balance can properly compensate for varying lighting.

What’s in the box?

• 1 x Calibrite ColorChecker Video

FAQs:

What are the main functions of this chart?

With the Calibrite ColorChecker Video, you can improve the colour preview on your camera’s display so your histograms are more reliable. You can also make post production colour correction and editing faster and easier by eliminating the need to neutralize each frame individually.

Why is this better than using any sort of white object?

White balancing on a piece of paper or other grey element in the scene may seem like a simple workaround, but most objects are not actually neutral under all lighting conditions; and they’re certainly not consistent. An inaccurate white balance will result in colour casts, and a lack of consistency between lighting conditions, making colour corrections extremely time consuming.

How can the ColorChecker Video be implemented within a pro-level video workflow?

The Calibrite ColorChecker Video is ideal for colour grading, colour balancing, grey balancing, setting perfect exposure, colour matching multiple cameras, and shooting and editing for mixed lighting.