 Hi guys, welcome back to my YouTube channel. This is Daniel Rose here. I want to do a video today about setting a custom white balance on the Canon VIXIA HFR800 camcorder. Now there is an automatic white balance function, an AWB function, but you're also able to custom set a white balance. And the cool thing is that it will persist through a reset, in other words turning off the camcorder. Now reading from the official Canon instruction manual for the VIXIA HFR800, to set a custom white balance, point the camcorder at a white object so it fills the screen, touch set white balance. When the adjustment is completed, this symbol stops flashing and disappears. The camcorder will retain, this bit's very important, the camcorder will retain the custom white balance even if you turn it off. So once you're on that custom white balance, it's kind of dialed in until you set it again or you go back to auto, but even if you go from auto back to custom, you're going to be using the last custom white balance. So that's really, really important to know. Now you can use a white object. I don't think you have to be discriminatory. Some people will use a piece of paper. Some people will use a napkin, but I picked these things up from the internet. This is Ali Express Purchase here. I'm sure it's also available on eBay. It's a three-card white balance setting tool. You get yourself a white, you get a gray, and you get a black. I'm not sure exactly what gray and black is for. This is when I use the white. These things are really handy. This thing was about $1.78 or $1.50. I bought about five of these, and I just keep them in every camera bag. So I always have it ready. And it really does make a big difference in terms of getting the color in your footage looking correct. So that's how it's done according to the manual. And let's just take out the Vixia and actually go through the process. Okay, so I've just got my Vixia now up on a tripod of sorts. And turn it on, flip out the LCD screen, of course. Then click on the bottom right. There you'll get to the main navigation. And to get to white balance, you need to just zoom it, scroll down a little bit, and it's there on the bottom right. It's labeled WB for white balance. So click on that. Now, the first thing you're going to get to is going to be you've got automatic, which is AWB. Then you've got a daylight preset. Then you've got a tungsten preset. And then this guy is the custom white balance custom WB. I want you to click into custom WB. There's a little button there saying set white balance. So what you want to do now is get your white balance card at the ready. And I put it in front of the lens so that occupies a whole frame. I'm just trying not to get my fingers in there. So now I'm looking in the monitor and I can see that the frame is filled with the white balance card. And now there we go. Now we're going to do set white balance. And you can see the white balance is adjusting, adjusting, adjusting. And once it stopped flicking, it's filed in. And now if I move this throughout the room, it should be it should be dialed in pretty much correctly. Doing this on my desk here in front of my screen was kind of a weird place to demonstrate setting a white balance. But I have brought this guy out into the field into the field in summer. I'm recording as fits in a pocket. Take out this, go through the custom white balance. And I actually do that. I'm trying to do that now before every time I'm using this camcorder in a different, different lighting condition, whether that's going from inside to outside or outside to inside, especially if you're doing shooting for any period of time in a certain light environment, I really do find that it makes a big positive difference. Hope this video was useful. I should like to get more videos from me. Please subscribe to this YouTube channel.