Green tint on videos

[m-ela10]

Hi everyone,

I do makeup tutorials and videos, and i just noticed when I take away my backdrop my video when played back on final cut has a green tint to it. I’m no camera expert so my settings are pretty basic. I have a ring light and 2 soft box lights all in front of me.

Please help [emoji30]


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[VidThreeNorth]

For a start, what camera are you using. Also, it would help if you could upload a couple of frames: one without the "green tint" and one with it.

As a "quick start comment", if your room is mainly lighted with fluorescent lights, that would be the cause. As for a way to avoid the problem, that will depend on the camera.

 

[m-ela10]

Good point ! Sorry mum brain [emoji2356]
I have a canon 80D
I’m not happy with either of the videos in regards to the colour, I feel like one has abit too much saturation and then the green one obviously is just horrible and the 3rd with the backdrop seems to be the best. I don’t know, any help would be great.
The soft boxes are fluorescent.
And the ring light has daylight bulbs.

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[VidThreeNorth]

Ok. The situation is not at all what I expected, but at least some of the solution is easy. A sufficiently experienced photographer can use mixed light sources by carefully adjusting the colours with filters on the light sources, but I've never known any who would bother to try it by choice. So for all lighting, stick with one type of light. In this case, if your light boxes have standard light bulb sockets, then just "retire" the fluorescents and replace them with the same daylight bulbs you are already using. Later you can replace them with LED panels which can be colour adjusted. You will be able to use adjustable LED panels with the "daylight" coloured bulbs or with normal "tungsten" coloured bulbs. Many of them are adjustable for power. If you have to chose, get a panel that is colour adjustable even if it is not power adjustable.
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For the saturation, that will probably be adjustable in that camera -- I don't use camera, so I might be wrong about that. You should be able to reduce saturation in your editing software's colour adjustment. So that should be simple enough to do in post production.
[2019-02-06 17:14 re-written for clarity.]

About that last image. What colour is your backdrop? If it is grey, then the whole image has shifted to reduce the green from the fluorescents.

In general, there is no difference between still and video lighting theory, so there is a lot of information "out there". Search for "color balance". Here's a link that might help:

"The A to Z of Photography: White Balance",
By Rod Lawton July 27, 2018, Tech Radar
"The A to Z of Photography: White Balance | TechRadar"
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The only general difference is that video makers tend to prefer "flatter" lighting because it allows the "talent" -- the people in front of the camera, to move around more freely. I think it was first done in the 1950's for "I Love Lucy", and is still commonly used for most TV shows.