 How you guys welcome back to my YouTube channel Daniel Rosal here want to make another video on the Canon XA40 camcorder what I'm doing is I'm just this I bought this guy About a week ago and as I learn features to get to grips with the camcorder I'm just putting some videos up on YouTube in case they help anyone else who is trying to figure out how to do things Canon do a great job at documenting stuff in the instruction manual the XA40 and XA45 and as far as I know the only difference is that the XA45 has SDI out, but everything is really carefully documented in the manual. It's just a long manual So sometimes I think it's easier to show how to do stuff So this is our this is our friend here with the top handle attached now setting a custom white balance is what I want to Talk about today, so I've got my delightful $1.50 white balance cards, but they do the trick I bought a few of these and it's better than a lurching around for pieces of paper when you're trying to set a custom white balance, so One feature about this camcorder I really like is there's this little switch here for toggling between automatic and manual and it's located Just to the left of the zoom rocker on the body of the camcorder There's also a zoom rocker on the top body the top handle just next to the second record button But the main one is here and that little slider is just to the left so it's self explanatory auto is auto M is manual, so if I go ahead now and turn on the camera So auto is not going to give you this option so auto is just for like when you're ready to you know, just kind of shoot And have the camera do all the work So I don't get that option now if I click on function. There's no white balance option You only got your zoom settings and you've got your very very important mic settings for Manually configuring an audio level or leaving it run on auto. I always use manual for external microphones So what you want to do is you want to flip this dude over to Manual and then you get this brief menu message now. You can also just have the camcorder So it's a hard switch and the difference is when I click on function now Boom, you've got all your options there. You've got your gain your exposure So I think it's brilliant design from Canon that if you just want to shoot It's all in a hardware switch. You want to just have the camera do everything Flip up to auto you want to control stuff yourself go down to manual So now we just need to find white balance. It's the white balance logo It's pretty standard and you can choose between automatic white balance and then presets like daylight tungsten color temperature. So this is great. You can actually choose a specific Kelvin temperature for your color temperature Or you can do custom white balance So the way this guy works is I'm gonna you take your white card And then you want to hit the custom white balance buttons It's gonna be really hard to do this with one hand, but I'm gonna attempt to so this won't be perfect because You know, there was a bit of a jump there And you want to get it so that it's all white encapsulated in the box and you don't have a Shadow so as you can see this is not a real diamond. This is not a really good demonstration But it just wanted to show you guys kind of how the process is intended to work And then you can reset it so it actually perpetuates the setting through a reboot So if you change lighting environment, and you need to reset it You want to go through this process again, and it reads out the white balance. It's detected. So now it's 2780 Kelvin. Let's see if there's a way to make this stand on my desk It's not really gonna work. So I'm just gonna try do this again just to show you so it's reading reading reading when it's flashing It's reading and now you can see it's jumped up to 2820 Kelvin So I like that feature let's you know that it says to white balance and now we can go shooting and the camera is Using white balance of 2820 Kelvin or I can jump back to automatic by clicking on automatic So that's how you set a custom white balance on the Canon XA40 Professional camcorder. I hope that was useful if you want to get more videos for me, please subscribe to this YouTube channel