Calibrite ColorChecker Video XL

Calibrite ColorChecker Video XL

When you integrate the ColorChecker Video XL color chart into your production, everyone on your team - from producers and filmmakers to editors and colorists - can work with consistent color information. This saves time from pre- to post-production and helps you achieve your creative look faster.

Getting the right color balance and exposure for a video can be a challenge. Apertures don't always match. Ambient lighting conditions change. Different cameras and lenses have different looks, even if you're from the same brand or even the same model. If you're on a large set or in a larger venue, or if you're shooting aerial, capturing a small reference color map can be even more challenging. This leads to quality degradation and more work in post-production for your colorists or editor.

With the ColorChecker Video XL color card, you can capture the color card from a greater distance and from a wider angle to:

• adjust exposure
• check highlights, shadows, and midtones
• set up accurate color balance
• perform color matching between multiple cameras
• handle mixed lighting conditions

ColorChecker Video XL color map

Speed up your color grading workflow by achieving ideal exposure and color balance - whether you're shooting with one camera or multiple cameras. The ColorChecker Video XL Color Map is twice the size of our standard Video Color Map and contains the same number of chromatic color patches, skin tone color patches, gray tone color patches, and illumination check color patches. This layout is designed for ideal performance when used with vectorscope and waveform - whether in camera or in software.

• Chromatic colors: The two lines of six chromatic color patches (saturated and unsaturated) were specifically designed to coordinate with the primary color axes on a vectorscope. These colors provide two levels of color information to help correct color casts more quickly and achieve ideal color balance.
• Skin tones: These range from light to dark and have different gradations to better reproduce the exact skin color. This row is positioned at the outer edge of the color map for easy matching on the vectorscope.
• Large Grayscale: Four larger levels for an even gray balance, including white, 40IRE gray, dark gray, and glossy black. These levels are ideal for determining the correct exposure - whether you're using a waveform, zebra values, or false colors. Use these levels to match the exposure and contrast of cameras you may be using together, and make sure midtones are accurately represented. To make it as easy as possible, they are located in the center of the color chart.
• Linear gray scale: six color patches for even gray matching. This line targets highlight and shadow areas.
• Lighting check boxes: black and white boxes at two corners for better assistance in determining even lighting across the entire color map.