 Hey everybody it's Greg back to here and in this video I'm going to show you a couple of different ways to set your white balance on your Panasonic GH5. All right so I use a couple of different methods and you can use this for different cameras as well. We're going to go to the GH5 and I'll show you how to set the settings in a second. I just want to go over the different methods. So I have a last delight. Now this is a gray card. It also has a white side and this just folds up and goes in your camera bag. So I've been using this lately. Now also you can get different types of gray cards. This is more of a solid one and then also you can use an expo disc. So this is an expo disc and how this would work you put it in front of your lens and point towards the light source. So if you're using lighting in the studio you'd point towards that get an accurate exposure and that would help you get an accurate white balance. Now also you can use the Kelvin settings in your camera. So for example if you're outside daylight's around 5600 Kelvin you could set it to that. The only issue with that is if you move to the shade that's a different temperature and your white balance is going to be off. That's why sometimes having a gray card is helpful. Now also I use the spider checker and you'll see that in a second when we go to the GH5 and you can use the gray patch in post so you can take a shot of that for every scene as well. So a couple different methods. Normally I just set it to 5600 if I'm outdoors and I try to fix things in post but it's probably a good habit to just take a shot of a gray card if you move to a different lighting situation as well as having something like the spider checker in your scene that's going to be helpful especially if you're using two different cameras you want to make sure both cameras are properly white balanced. So when you get into post not you know you'll get a situation where one might be a little more yellow than the other it could be a real pain. So we're going to move to the GH5 now and I'll show you the different methods for setting that up. All right so here we are we're looking at the back of the GH5 you can see there's the spider checker and here I have my gray target. So what we want to do is look at this waveform monitor and get a good exposure on the gray target you can see as I move it away how the exposure changes. We're trying to go for about 50 that middle line there if you look at it the exposure might be a little high on that gray card so what I can do is I could just change that to about let's say 3.5 bring that down just there okay that's a good exposure right there now what I want to do is press the white balance button now once I do that I'm set here on number one for my custom white balance now it'll say select white set I can click on that we pick the gray card I hit set now you could see that changed so we have a more accurate white balance now I'm going to switch to the GH5 I'm going to turn that on all right so now the GH5 is on we've switched to that now you can also take a shot of the spider checker as well you can see this gray square here that's the gray square that you would use in post so if you had this in every scene that would work as well now we're going to go back to the Canon all right so there's another way you can do it as well too if we go to our white balance again if you come over here to your Kelvin settings now if I push up on this you could see we're at 5600 so if I was shooting outdoors and I wanted everything to be at 5600 I could just do that and now we're shooting at 5600 let me just go back to the GH5 to show you what that looks like all right now we've gone from the custom white balance on the GH5 to the 5600 setting so that might look a little different so that'll give you an idea basically of how you can set either the Kelvin temperature or a custom white balance now you also have other settings as well all right so if I go to the white balance you can see we have different settings we have auto white balance which I never use then we have this is a daylight setting this is a cloudy setting I like to know personally roughly what temperature I'm set at so I often just use the Kelvin temperatures so in the studio I might be between 5200 and 5400 at home and then outdoors I might be at 5600 although it's probably a good idea depending on the situation if you move to the shade to do the custom white balance method all right let's do a quick recap before we go to the computer and I'll show you how to do this in post-processing so you can use your Kelvin temperature which we just covered you can use a gray card to get an accurate white balance and also an important factor in getting a proper white balance is having a proper exposure as well so I use a saconic l 478d it's a light master pro l 478d now I can use this for photography with my stroll blights in the studio but I also have video settings on this so I can set my shutter speed and my iso it'll tell me roughly an accurate aperture so it's a good starting point sometimes it's a time saver so I use that as well now you can also use the waveform monitor with your gh5 to really help you get an accurate exposure as well as the zebras now let's go to the computer and I'll show you how I use the spider checker in post as another method of setting my white balance all right so here we are looking at the timeline of this youtube video and here's my gh5 footage now you can see over here this one looks a little more blue that's before I did the color balance I'm going to drag that over under the timeline here and you could see this is a 4k footage and I'm shooting in 1080p because of the Canon so I'm going to just back out so we can see more of that color checker now you could see that the white balance obviously of the gh5 footage it's looking a little more on the blue side now one thing you can do is if you go up to color here in adobe premier pro you can see we have our little scopes on the side you can see that the red green and blue they're off there's a white balance selector now this isn't totally perfect but if I click on this and I click on this neutral gray square on the spider checker you could see that shifted our white balance and it's not too bad actually you could see here that that's aligned the scopes on the left hand side you could see it's made an adjustment to the color temperature and the tint so this will get you more in the ballpark so having something like a gray patch the spider checker that can help you as well now it's really kind of up to taste when it comes to color grading so you can make further adjustments but this is great to have this in your shot especially if you're in different lighting situations so I think it's good two methods really if you're shooting in daylight set it to 5600 calvin and have this or do a custom white balance some people have said they've had color casts on their gray card which really screwed up their white balance watch out for that if you're doing a custom white balance make sure if you're shooting in a bunch of trees that you don't have a green color cast on your on your gray patch that could affect things as well if you want to be cautious you could shoot at 5600 when you're in open sunlight if you move to shade you can warm that up maybe switch it to 6000 calvin doing it that way but anyway I wanted to show you how to do that in adobe premiere pro hey it's Craig back to here again thanks for watching this video if you found it helpful subscribe to my youtube channel just hit that subscribe button right now also feel free to share this video on the web with your fellow photographers on facebook groups and in forums now one last thing before you go hit that like button and leave a comment what kind of videos do you want to see about the gh5 in the future just let me know in the comments section below and i'll shoot more videos about the panasonic gh5 all right thanks again for watching this video and i'll see you in the next one