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ColorChecker Video

SKU: CCVWB

$129.00

Video Color Control from Capture to Edit

  • Replaces the X-Rite ColorChecker Video (MSCCVPR)
  • Featuring four grayscale calibration bars and saturated and unsaturated RGB primaries
  • Extended skin tone patches for additional color precision
  • An 8×11 size white balance target on the back
  • This target is an essential tool when color matching multiple cameras
  • Supported by many key third-party software applications

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Features


The ColorChecker Video Target includes:

Chromatic Colors: Six saturated and six de-saturated color chips aligned with video production

Skin Tones: Six color chips from light to dark with different undertones

Gray Levels: Four larger steps for even gray balance, including white, 40IRE gray, deep gray, and high gloss black reference patches

Linear Grayscale: Six steps for even gray balance, including highlight and shadow regions

Illumination Check Chips: Black and white color chips at two corners to better assist in determining even illumination

White Balance Target: Create in-camera white balance to start at a neutral point for all the footage you capture.

Use for a variety of applications, including:

Color grading

Color balancing

Gray balancing

Setting perfect exposure

Color matching multiple cameras

Shooting and editing for mixed lighting

© Alan Shapiro

Technical Specifications

Number of Targets: 2
Number of Color Patches: 33
Target Size: 215.9 x 279.4mm
Humidity Range: 85% or less, non-condensing

ColorChecker Video charts make your workflow faster, more consistent, and more color balanced. They allow everyone on your team – from producer to cinematographer to editor to colorist – to work with consistent color information. They save you time, from pre-production through production, and help you get to your creative look faster.

Achieving the proper color balance and exposure for video can be challenging. F-stops in cameras don’t always match. Ambient lighting conditions change. Multiple cameras and lenses have different looks, even if they are the same brand and model. All of this adds up to quality control challenges and increased workload in post-production for your colorist or editor.

© Don Komarechka

Even More Features


Video Color Target

Speed up your color grading workflow by achieving ideal exposure and color balance, whether shooting with one camera or multiples. The color chart includes a series of chromatic color chips, skin tone chips, gray 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 Colors:  Two rows of six chromatic color chips, both saturated and desaturated, specifically designed to align with the color axis on a vectorscope. These colors provide two levels of color information to more quickly achieve an ideal color 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 Gray Levels: four larger steps for even gray balance, including white, 40IRE gray, deep gray, and high gloss black. These levels are ideal for determining proper exposure whether you use a waveform, zebras, or false colors.  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 center of the test target for maximum exposure, even on a wide set.

Linear Grayscale: six color chips for achieving even gray 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 colors 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.

With this chart, you’ll be able to:

  • Eliminate color casts
  • Improve the color preview on your camera’s display so your histograms are more reliable
  • Make post-production color correction and editing faster and easier by eliminating the need to neutralize each frame individually

“Why can’t I use just any white object for white balancing?”

White balancing on a piece of paper or other gray 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 color casts, and a lack of consistency between lighting conditions, making color corrections extremely time-consuming.

Include ColorChecker Video targets in every shoot to make your video workflow faster, more consistent, more balanced, and repeatable. You’ll save time and money avoiding costly mistakes and frustrating color corrections after the fact. Best of all, you’ll get to your creative look faster, which is ideal, because we all know how much you love being in your creative place.

3rd Party Software Support

ColorChecker Video is supported by 3rd party software solutions for improved color grading and efficiencies.

DaVinci Resolve

3DLUT Creator