Calibrite ColorChecker Video

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

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

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