Is there any kind of filters I can use?

Question

Shooting a wedding video I was in the same room with the bride and bridesmaids.The latter were helping the former to put the dress on. I had this predicament: There were two sources of light , the sun coming in from the window and the three lamps in the room. When I examined the footage I saw that the white dress of the bride was yellowish and in other parts the dress was bluish. What kind of filter can I use, if any, that can give me the same color temperature in a situation like this?

Thanks.

I use a video camera HD.

HVR-V1U

24P

1080 60i

Answer 1

oooo.... tough one.

keep the natural light, turn off the lamps, and use a camcorder light to enhance the light coming from the window.

(i'm no pro... but I try my suggestion)

Answer 2

I can't think of a filter that would do it.  If you've got manual control of the white balance, keep checking it.  You can probably adjust the colour balance in the edit.

Answer 3

ok well what color were you wanting?  did you want the daylight color? or the tungsten?  which was brighter?

There's an 81A filter that converts the tungsten light into daylight to balance out the color.  Or if you wanted to use the lamps then you'd get an 85 filter that converts the daylight into tungsten.

If you get either one of those two filters then you'll need to white balance to the regular room.  Once you're light balanced then you put the filter on the camera.  This should work.

Also, why are you shooting 24p?  Are you planning on printing to film?  If not then your footage is gonna be choppy cause there will be frames dropped out when you show it on a TV or burn to a DVD.  TV runs at 30fps and all the movies on TV are modified to run at 30 fps.  If you shoot 24p and render it normally then the editing program will add in the extra frames needed and once you play back on the TV, then its gonna look choppy and awkward.

Never use 24p unless you know you're gonna be up-rezing and printing your footage onto actual film.  

Also 720p will render you a better picture overall than 1080i.  1080i will only give you 540 lines of resolution at any given time whereas 720p gives you the full 720 lines of resolution all the time.