How do you match lighting from two cameras ?

[Mau7rice]

First I'll preface with last week I did a studio shoot but unfortunately had forgot the lighting; and footage would likely come out ugly dark without lighting in the room or camera adjustment. So last week since had no lighting I made some adjustments in the cameras on the exposures. I use two Sony AX53. That worked for two Saturdays ago but this past Saturday I remembered the lighting but forgot about the adjustments I had made so after the shoot and I look at my main Camera 1 which I use for close up shots it's easy to tell its overly exposed. I had called myself making an adjustment before the shooting started but the camera 1 which is front straight on or sometimes slightly to the side depending on room space is too bright while my Camera 2 is reasonable, good I would say.

        So after explaining all this as my question says what techniques do you recommend to match my bright footage from camera 1 to my camera 2 so the lighting looks more evenly matched ?

And just and extra side issue i noticed; I'm multi-caming this in Premiere which I do often so I'm very familiar, but other than experimenting a little and trying to see if I could apply a LUT to my Cam 1 footage after I went ahead and did the multi-cam (Short clips, so the multi-cam didn't take more than an hour plus or minus) then went back to the bin with my Cam 1 videos. The Cam1 videos are in a bin in Premiere and the Cam 2 videos in their own bin also. Similarly the videos on my drive are in their own folders and using Plural Eyes I dragged them in and did the sync up with Plural Eyes before importing to Premiere.

But the multicam cuts are done I just need to match the clips from the two cameras as close as possible. How do you recommend I go about this to fix the lighting ?

[R Neil Haugen]

Use Lumetri with program monitor in Comparison view mode and go to Color Wheels and Match tab.

Use side-by-side Comparison mode to set left side "reference" clip to the better clip, and set the CTI on the "target" clip to be changed so it's on the right side.

Click the "Apply Match" button with the Face button selected also.

It will try to match with the Color Wheel controls, and you can then try to trim in with other controls in the various tabs.

Looks like you've got some clipped whites that will be unsolved totally. But ... you can't fix everything in post.

Neil