Thank you so much for this video. I’ve been searching for such a long time, before I found this. Almost, no one addresses the function of adjusting Amber, blue, green, and magenta. You explained it perfectly, and now I have a much better understanding of it.subscribed.

This vid makes me want to stop and go through all your vids and just make a whole day of experimenting and experiencing the joy of knowing how these tools are supposed to be used. Thx

After watching your video, I realized how little I know about WB settings in Sony cameras. Thank you.

I have been using my camera wrong this entire time. Shame on me. Wow. Thank you this video just changed everything for me!!! Ordering color checker now.

This tutorial was to the point and super simple. Thank you Paul!

After watching this video I imported some footage into Davinci Resolve and it was perfectly white balanced and the color graphs were all even. Thanks! This will save me countless hours of time editing.

This video was awesome. Never knew you could lock the auto white balance. Game changer

That was the best video so far to help me understand white balance options for my new Alpha 1. Thank you so much!

PAUL! Another banger!! The custom WB settings using the color checker are going to come in so f*%%^ing handy ESPECIALLY when shooting in SLOG (which was extremely difficult for me to nail WB, gamma assist on or off) or on commercial sites where I have zero control of the lighting. You have the best, most CONCISE, and most informative content regarding the FX3 and my skills with this camera have improved thanks to you. 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽

Thanks! Great as always. So painful that that you cannot custom WB while in a pre set mode. Ridiculous and have requested it frequently to Sony Pro Support.

this was one of the most well designed educational videos ive ever seen. Great video flow and clarity using those other insets of the lights

Paul, your channel is most helpful. I've leant a lot from them. a BIG thank you.

muchas gracias me has ayudado mucho tengo una fx30 y estoy un poco confuso no se usarla pero por tip muy utile y por cierto explicas muy muy bien un gran abrazo -- Thank you very much you have helped me a lot I have an fx30 and I'm a little confused I don't know how to use it but for a very useful tip and by the way you explain very very well a big hug

Many thanks for this!

So helpful and well done, thanks!

Answered every single question I had, thanks for the video!

incredible informative and helped me to figure out couple of important things! thank you!!! 👋👋👋

Wow those custom buttons ! Seems like we are cheating !! Thanks as always !

This was a fantastic tutorial.

Thanks very helpful. Im hoping I can still keep using AWB like I do on my Nikon D750 when I buy a Sony A7R5. I believe the AWB has really been improved on that camera. I just don't have the time to keep resetting WB on my type of work. So fingers crossed Sony has made AWB a bit more useable.

That helped a lot

Great video. I have such a hard time nailing wb for real estate videos. Thank you

Just found your channel. This is a great tutorial. Everything important is well explained. I liked and subscribed 😊👍🏻 keep up that good work

Great thorough video. Thank you.

Very well explained, thank you!

Awesome video, now tell me how I do custom white balance for video when In a memory recall setting :) Sony needs to fix that

Thanks for another great tutorial.

Thank you. That was awesome.

You are a life saviour

Awesome video! ❤

Hugely helpful tutorial!!!

thanks, man! this was very helpful

I have worked into this recently as well. The reason was that my camera (A7R III) tends to produce images that are shifted towards red/magenta if you don't shoot RAW (so, the problem applies to JPG and MP4), IF YOU USE THE WB PRESETS (!). I have played around quite a lot with these A-B and G-M values to remove it, however the final solution for me was using the Kelvin scale and setting it manually. Somehow, these presets are too warm and always result in strange yellow/red tones. For Daylight, I had to go down to 4500-5000K to get accurate colours. I guess the standard one is at 5200-5600. "Daylight" is the one that is usable the most, but "Overcast" and "Shadow" are really extremely problematical. I wish you could just edit the standard Kelvin values for these presets. I am not quite sure where this comes from. Recently I saw a video that Tamron lenses tend to produce more yellowish colours, so maybe half the problem comes from my lenses. With RAWs, you can correct and sort this out, but with MP4s, fixing colours isn't such a joy so it must be as close to the "final" product as possible in terms of realistic colours. Concerning your video, I'd say you gave a very good explanation people can relate to if they want to want to work themselves into this topic, especially going beyond "I just use AWB" or having different sources of light in a scene. Very helpful!

thank you for this video!

TY!!!

(Auto White Balance is working fine for me)

Great content Paul 👍🏻I have the Fx6

Excellent and concise, and especially useful is the last tip on locking the AWB. I'm used to cameras that have a white balance button on the front. This is a great way to do it on the FX3 (or FX30 which is what I have). Thanks for the helpful video.

One of my main issues with Sony WB is that you cannot use it in memory mode which I always use

How can I set FX3 WB? I cannot capture (i.e. set) WB from MR1-3, which prompts: "The operation or setting not available as follows: Shoot Mode/Memory Recall." I'm forced to back out of MR, capture WB in Movie or Still Mode, then return to my MR and enter WB K value. Can you (or anyone) shed some light here? How are you capturing WB while in MR mode? What am I missing? -Colton

Good stuff

Auto WB lock if restart camera needs lock again?

Hello, very helpful video. This does not explain though what is wrong with software engineers at Sony. They built the firmware so that you can't set the white balance in any MR1 to MR3 modes, only if you're in Movie or manual. Then if you are in Movie, you can't preload the MR settings prior to set WB so that you have all other configuration ready to shoot! I am soooo pissed off!

Do I need an expensive color checker with all the colors or would a simple grey/white card be enough? (for video)

In the sony a7iii I used a white card to modulate the white balance in the fx3 I don't get the option

Very helpful. Sony's color palette favors blues and greens. For AWB I set A-B to A1 and G-M to M1.5 for a quick result. This is certainly a subjective attitude. What do you recommend?

i have a problem with white setting on sony fx3. I can't do it when I'm in MR 1... a black screen appears that mw says that option is not available. thank you very much for your help

My Sony FX30 does not allow me to do custom white balance, the SET button is greyed out in Custom 1, 2 & 3 settings. Any suggestions?

Nice!

Great video but 1 question can you change all this AWB setting durring REC ?

New subscriber here, this is video great - clear and informative. One thing I'm struggling with - on the A7Siii, it won't let me set a custom white balance when I'm using one of my 3 custom shooting modes (C1 C2 C3, which I always use). So I switch the dial to movie mode, set my white balance using a card, and it says the custom WB has been captured. But then when I switch back to C1 and then select custom WB1, the setting is not what has just been captured. So - how do I set a custom WB when using custom modes? Sorry for the long and rambling comment!

Great stuff. Thank you. I am going to shoot in a cannabis legal producer tomorrow and the lights are HPS. Got a filter just for that. Looking forward to do my first custom WB. What is the app on your phone?

I'm shooting in cine EI on the FX3 and noticed I can't set manual white balance off a card. Is this because cine EI only handles 3 set white balance presets like slog2 in the Sony FS5 for instance?

What should I do to have that square on the display, which I can use to select the source for AWB? E.g. the color checker? Like you have in your video at 1:25

On the FX30, is there a way to toggle through two WB modes easily (with one button) like the FX6? I would love to create a 3200k-3600k for indoor light and one for 5600k for daylight. It would be nice to be able to tap into each temperature with one switch kinda like the Native ISO switch between 800 and 2500.

Good explanation, thank you. two questions. On the Sony FX3. Usingone of the customs1, ,2 or 3 is it similar to shooting a white card with a video camera to white balance .? 2nd Q, can you do black balance on the Sony FX 3? Thanks

Hey, I can’t seem to click Custom WB when shooting slog3 why is that

Why the heck does the FX3 not have Custom white balance like the A7sIII and other Sony cameras? Totally frustrating... I guess doing Custom like you showed here is the only way at the moment....

I'm having an issue with the custom white balance setting on the FX3. I've followed the instructions on a few different KZfaq tutorials on this process, but every time I set the custom white balance it sets is as >9900K. I'm using a middle gray card, and also setting proper exposure before hand. I've tried it in multiple lighting scenarios (tungsten light at night, daylight indoors and outdoors). I feel like I have something set up wrong but I can't figure out what. Any thoughts?

What would be a good budget friendly camera to pair with the fx3?

Hey Paul, great video as always! One further question: How do you deal with setting custom white balances while being in one of the 3 custom menus. Till now I didn’t find a turn around other than setting the camera to video mode and setting a custom white balance and then copy that number over to the custom menu. Do you have a better way to solve this? Cheers!

Great channel! Curious have you compared these cameras to the a7iv !?

Thanks for being so detailed -- very informative. One question: is setting white balance purely a matter of altering the Kelvin value? Can I set white balance by just twiddling the Kelvin value and observing the effect in the LCD monitor. Or do the tools on the Sony A7 help guide the user to a more reliable result?

Why is this a 10 min video?