Whatever works for you!

Glad it was helpful!

Thanks for the comments and gray is the ideal color to use, but you could also use the white if you wanted.

Awesome, thanks!!

You're welcome!

I plan to in about 1 month when it gets warmer out ;) But in the meantime I think you will learn a lot from this length tutorial I just created here: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/lZqEhJRe1Ne8kXU.html

@@Jason_Hermann Do you do one on one zoom calls?

Yeah, I sure do!

Weird… The a7iv let’s you change WB in custom modes.

I have noticed that the camera goes to what thinks is right, after i click and takes a sample. I will just live it :)

Yes, in the white balance menu scroll down to the kelvin/ color temp option. Then press right on the directional pad which will then allow you to change the temperature.

I would use it twice and check it where each subject will be. The White Balance will be the same for both obviously, but you can also use the target to dial in your exposure if using 2 separate lights. If the lights are converging in the center, then yeah, just checked it in the center area where your interview will be. Enjoy!!

I don't know of anyway to speed this up on the A7C, sorry... Basically you need to get to the ISO settings area so you can select custom...

For snow you would want the exposure set to +1 to +2 depending on how much white is in the scene. As far as WB goes, that still depends on shy really. If it's sunny you would want sunny, if cloudy out you would want cloudy.

Thanks Neil ;) You are configuring the camera to the light in the scene. So, the camera should end up very close to the light color temperature when doing this custom WB.

@@Jason_Hermann thanks.

Yes.

Hello, for this video I was using no picture profile and the standard creative style.

@@Jason_Hermann Hmm, nice. Thanks, appreciate it! I might switch to Standard then instead of Neutral.

@@maartenjanssen Standard offers a bit more saturation than Neutral straight off the camera I feel like and less work in post ;) However, I am looking into shooting with picture profiles and grading my video soon... It's just another thing I need to learn better first ;)

@@Jason_Hermann Yeah exactly. I come from shooting log on Canon Eos R but I am not comfortable with HLG or S-Log yet. So till I am it’s nice to have a kind of straight out of camera fall back. Or until I make enough money to buy an FX3 or A7SIII and shoot S-Cinetone, haha.

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Great question and no you can't set the custom WB when in a memory mode. You would need to set the white balance first then save it in a memory mode in order to hold it. Weird....

@@Jason_Hermann Yeah, that's how it's been. Slight workaround is to use AWB Lock to just lock the WB on a gray card (have a custom button set to AWB Lock Toggle). I understand the concept in theory of blocking out the changing of a custom WB (custom 1, 2, 3) when dealing with memory settings, but I think the way most people use the memory recall is not for very specific settings, but more for general settings - I mean, you can change virtually everything else while in memory recall, including custom picture profiles, but you can't set a manual WB with a gray card. Sony should just add a "MANU" manual mode in the WB menu where you can utilize the in-camera snapshot of a gray card to set a K temp. Or a "Detect" option in the current "C. Temp/Filter" menu section that does that same.

@@Jason_Hermann Also, interesting enough, at least with the other Sony's like A7R4 and A7R3, what you set inside the custom 1,2,3 WB positions are not maintained when you switch into the Memory Recalls. If you switch into Movie mode and set the custom WBs, and then switch into Memory Recall, it's not retained.

That would be a good idea. For my purposes I have one set for how I use the camera in my studio, and the white balance is hard set to 5500k which is what I currently have my lights set to and custom wb confirmed the accuracy. So, I don't change the settings when sitting in front of the camera other than the focus area sometimes and facial recognition. I have another setting for 120p video footage, but to your point have the white balance set to auto by default, but often need to change depending on the scene and making a custom is not an option. So, I use the best option for whatever lighting I'm in in those cases, and when in a studio environment I dial in the temp manually.

Yeah the settings not carrying over are weird, but I believe why Sony did that is to keep separate workflows in tact. The camera is so powerful and configurable, but it would be really nice to be able to custom set the WB in the memory modes I totally agree!!