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July 18, 2019
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Lumetri Auto White Balance?

  • July 18, 2019
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Wondering if there is any way to make Lumetri (or use another plugin) to auto white balance continuously on a specific point throughout a clip.  I was given footage with which 2 cameras had properly locked WB and one camera was on auto WB.  This was shot is in a conference room where there is a white board and a presentation on the TV.  Whenever the TV goes to a white background, the camera white balances to it.  When there is other content on the screen the camera white balances to the whiteboard.

So totally may be out of luck, but the troublesome shot is a shot that is completely locked down, so the white board is in the exact same spot the entire shoot.

Is there possibly a way (maybe even a script or something) to have Lumetri sample the same spot and update the WB accordingly?  Probably not, a long shot I know.

Any other plugins that might help in this situation, or am I in for editing the WB manually in the these three two hour sessions...?  😕😕

Thank you all!

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chrisw44157881
Inspiring
July 19, 2019

i finished updating my 3d point auto white balance for AE. You can use the hue precomp to alpha matte anything you want to as well. I made one for removing flicker and another for autograding, but they both use the same auto balance math. You can disable any features you don't want like luma change etc.

autograder:It sets black point, white point, 3 points of white balance, 18% gamma, RGB 204 saturation per frame

CreativeCOW

remove flicker version

ae cs66 autowhitebalance 3dwb 1080 arithmetic - Creative COW

R Neil Haugen
Legend
July 19, 2019

Premiere doesn't have anything to monitor something in the image and keyframe WB adjustments. That would be wonderful to have, right? Sigh.

I've done what you're gonna be doing for hours at a stretch for a couple different projects. Full sympathies!

I suggest starting with clip markers marking the "height" of each different WB movement. Keyframe at first only those spots, and use perhaps Continuous Bezier keyframes. Then only add keyframes between as truly necessary.

Neil

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