White Balance Issue

Aperture is not setting the white balance sliders in the proper place after importing images. The image displays properly, but when I move a slider the WB on the image shifts dramatically. I have to reset the adjustment to the default almost every time.
An example would be the image is at Temp 3683 and Tint is at 15, I adjust Temp and then the tint is way magenta. I hit reset and the Temp goes to what the camera shot it at. Anyone else having Aperture misread the WB from the camera?

Shortie,
Welcome to the user-supported Aperture discussion group. You should read the [Terms of Use|http://discussions.apple.com/help.jspa] when you can.
Does anyone know when Apple are going to fix this?
The likely answer is "yes." However, everyone who posts to this forum is an Aperture user, not an Apple employee. So, the people who know the answer your question are not here.
nathan

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Search for "flicker fixer premiere pro". I don't use any of them so you will have to see what works best for you.
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This is frustrating me too. Some things I've discovered:
Reprocessing photos tagged with the 1.0 to 1.1 which required reprocessing caused most of the issues. The auto-converted photos would go from 5200K temp, -1 tint or similar to having a wierd tint. However, using a tint around 90 (off the range the tint slider can be adjusted to. Similarly, using the dropper to select a whitepoint results in these out of range tints. However, the tint looked OK, it's just out of the range you can slide it to.
I tried the deletion of the Raw decode plist and that didn't fix things.
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Incredibly frustrating. If anyone has any reasonable fixes, I'd love to hear about them, or preferably could we have an update from Apple which resolves the issue.
I understand that reprocessing can cause small shifts, but my photos which have not been heavily adjusted look totally wrong when reprocessed. For now I will not be reprocessing anything until there's a fix.
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Bug Fix for White Balance Issue (When ?)

Dear Apple:
When can users expect a patch for the bug that "crept" into Aperture late in the development cycle that seriously effects the white balance tool?
This bug is obviously a major concern and issue for most professional-level photographers; and, quite frankly, prevents Aperture from being used in a professional capacity with regard to RAW decoding.
Cheers

Excuse me, John:
But, quite frankly I don't think you are in any position to tell the users of this form how they should feel. Most users, who happen to be high-end prosumers or professionals such as myself, have paid a great deal of money on a piece of software that was supposed to live up to certain, basic expectations. Unfortunately, that software did not. As such it cannot be used in a professional environment.
Subsequently, an update was provided to address all the concerns that users expressed. Unfortunately, that update created a major issue with regard to the white balance of RAW images. Yet again, this expensive piece of software is nearly useless in a professional environment.
Let me ask you this: "if you were a gardner and paid several hundred dollars for a lawn mower, only to discover that it cut your clients' grass unevenly, would you continue to use it? Would you continue to be patient after taking it into the repair shop only to have it still screw up your lawns? Would you not be on the phone with the repair shop constantly until it was fixed?"
Unfortunately, Aperture is a good idea that has a flawed implementation and that NEEDS to be addressed! So, I will continue to ask Joe and Steve and the others at Apple when will this piece of software actually live up to the expectations set forth by the company that produced it!

White Balance Issues

Hello,
I have noticed this for a couple of weeks now. The display on my 2012 MacBook Pro (non-retina) will switch white balance for a second and then flip back to the normal colors. When it does this you can notice a distinct blue-ish tint to the colors on the screen. The first few times it occurred it lasted for only a second and then would be normal. But today it has occurred twice now; the first lasted for a few minutes and the second hasn't switched back. The current OS of my macbook is Yosemite.
I tried going into the display options under system preferences but all the options still have the blue-ish tint to them. Any one else have this problem? I spilled coffee on my mac last week but this was a thing before that happened. I'm really hoping that it's not a sign of the screen dying.
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This is frustrating me too. Some things I've discovered:
Reprocessing photos tagged with the 1.0 to 1.1 which required reprocessing caused most of the issues. The auto-converted photos would go from 5200K temp, -1 tint or similar to having a wierd tint. However, using a tint around 90 (off the range the tint slider can be adjusted to. Similarly, using the dropper to select a whitepoint results in these out of range tints. However, the tint looked OK, it's just out of the range you can slide it to.
I tried the deletion of the Raw decode plist and that didn't fix things.
Also of note, I have a selection of images with each of my camera's whitepoint settings (a Canon 30d as it happens). If I reprocess each, select the whitepoint brick to enable it and press reset, I get back the whitepoint which was interpretted from the RAW (and hence the cameras whitepoint setting). These also leap from say ~5200K daylight -1 tint (if I recall correctly) to having offscale tints. This suggests there's a new range at play for RAW 3?
Incredibly frustrating. If anyone has any reasonable fixes, I'd love to hear about them, or preferably could we have an update from Apple which resolves the issue.
I understand that reprocessing can cause small shifts, but my photos which have not been heavily adjusted look totally wrong when reprocessed. For now I will not be reprocessing anything until there's a fix.
Also of note, it looks like way back I locked my default raw processor to 1.0 or 1.1. That may have caused issues. I have since reset the camera defaults to the reset RAW processing defaults for 3. I'll try importing some stuff from camera tonight and see what it does.

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Help !!! .. SERIOUS white balance issue, footage is yellow !!

Hello guys,
Im an avid reader of these forums but never actually posted. We shot some motorsport this weekend however something happened in terms of white balance on one of the cameras.
The footage has a VERY yellow cast ... We are still injesting at the moment so i've not tried to fix it as yet however I've attached a couple of pics to show you the difference. Bizarrely both these shots are from the same camera, we aren't sure if the operator did something or just that the camera had a 'moment' however the yellow footage is unfortunately the finals .. and key to the piece we are producing.
Any advice or help would be very appreciated.
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Decent shot ..
[IMG]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v348/rx7dizzy2002/good.jpg[/IMG]
YELLOW !!! .. as i say this is from the same camera !!
[IMG]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v348/rx7dizzy2002/****.jpg[/IMG]

apply the three way color corrector to a bad shot. double click it in the timeline to open it in the viewer. go to the graphical interface. Next to the wheel on the right is a little eyedropper or whatever-- not in front of my edit system- sorry. Find a piece of what you know to be white in the shot, make sure it is NOT blown out, but properly exposed. Click that with the eyedropper and you should magically get close not exact to the good footage. Whatever you do will be a compromise. Get used to it.

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White Balance jpg Importing Issue

In Lightroom 1.2 I'm having a white balance issue after importing jpg's from my hard drive into LR. I noticed the issue after I did my jpg selection in Windows XP using the MS Picture Viewer to delete bad jpg's before I import the good jpg's into Lightroom. The white balance was way of balance using the LR "As Shot" WB as compared to MS Picture Viewer and Paint Shop Pro 9. A custom WB of -31 in LR equals the WB of jpg as viewed in the Picture Viewer and Paint Shop Pro 9. All 289 jpgs were affected. I also re-imported the jpg's into other new catalogs with the same results.
I do not have any presets selected for importing. I don't think I made any setting changes, I checked the settings and did not see anything out of the ordinary. I also did a "repair" re-install of Lightroom just in case a module got corrupted. The jpg's were from a Canon 20D. In the past week I was doing a lot of RAW prior to this importing the jpg's. The jpg's were imported into a brand new catalog and the PC was booted up prior to the importing. I never had this problem before with jpg's. Lately I have been getting catalog errors, settings that reset themselves, crops that uncrop themselves and photos that won't remove after I remove them while doing development of Raw photos. I have Lightroom installed on my local "C" Drive and the LR Catalogs are on my local "E" Drive.
thanks
Vince

>Is MS Picture Viewer a colour managed application? I don't know, but don't think so. Lightroom is however which might be the cause of your problems.
Not in XP. In vista it is color managed. From the sound of it, the problem is a bad monitor profile but you might also have a corrupt Lightroom database. You need to recalibrate the monitor and NEVER use canned profiles from the monitor manufacturer. They are almost always corrupt. As a very last resort, you can use sRGB as the monitor profile (delete any profile found in the windows display properties) but only to hold you over until you can really calibrate it. The other problems with weird errors are pretty worrisome though. Do you also get them when you start a fresh catalog?

Another white balance presets/settings question

(this is related to two other posts regarding white balance presets, but didn't want to hijack those threads with my own specific questions...)
i've got a canon s70, and have been messing around with a friends copy of aperture. the raw files of my camera are recognized (though the aperture camera support page identifies it as not optimized support), but the problem is that the white balance settings in camera are ignored.
when i view a raw file from my camera in aperture, the exif data shows that it is recognizing different white balance settings (various numbers are displayed here, for example, 1 for auto, 3 for tungsten, 6 for manual, etc). however, the temp. and tint settings are the same for all the images, regardless of wb setting (5278K temp, -18 tint).
so, here are my questions:
- is there any setting i'm missing that would let aperture correctly interpet the wb temp for a specific setting? in another thread regarding canon cameras and wb someone stated that aperture reads wb 'as shot', but it seems odd that it would recognize these different wb settings but apply the same temp and tint calculations across the board.
-i noticed that i can create white balance presets and apply them manually. i was wondering if it's possible to apply preset wb settings automatically. for example, is it possible to create an approximate wb setting for 'tungsten' (3), and then have it applied to all images with the '3' setting, either automatically on/immediately after import, or through an applescript or automator action?
while i could use lightroom, atm lightroom is lacking some features that i crucial to my wider image management/workflow needs (though it does correctly interpret my white balance settings). aperture seems like the best bet for me, but i would rather not go through my library of raw files and manually change the wb settings for each image.
thanks in advance for any help.

I don't know about your other white balance issue, but yes, you can apply a white balance to a selection of images.
Create a set of WB presets (one for daylight, cloudy, fluorescent, tungsten etc.). This takes moments and will be available on any future occasion.
Select and apply your WB preset to an image
Fine tune as needed (since in-camera auto white balance or presets often do not nail it)
Select Lift/Stamp tool
Click on your adjusted image
In the Lift/Stamp HUD, deselect all adjustments except the WB
Select all target images
Click "Stamp Selected Images" button in the Lift/Stamp HUD

Eye drop tool for white balance

It has been requested an eye drop tool to correct white balance issues in color correction for a long time. Is there any news on this? Will it be a new feature in upcoming updates?
If not... does anyone know a plugin that will do the same thing?
Short description:
I want to be able to select which colors are supposed to be white with an eye drop tool during color correction. This feature was available in earlier FCPs like 6 and 7. It saves tons of hours being able to auto adjust the whitebalance in post, rather than trying to match the correct color balance - dragging up and down these color circles, and then matching the color settings throughout the whole project.

The Color Corrector in FCPX is a misnomer. The color board is more about grading - not correcting.
If you can tell how the color is casting (or read the scopes) then the Color board is easy: line up the global control over the color and drag it downward (that will "subtract" the offending cast from the image.) Or use the shadows, midtones, and highlights controls individually for those ranges.
[But I find scopes difficult to use quickly, so:]
You can also use *any* of the effects, titles, or generators that have any color parameter selection (or gradient!) as an eyedropper in a pinch. Click on the swatch for the color parameter and from the pop up dialog (color picker), use the Magnifier (top left corner) and choose any pixel on the canvas (or anywhere else for that matter.) That will give you clear indication which primary elements are "too heavy" (red, green, blue -- or any two with greater value than the minimum) Using the HSB sliders mode (second icon and last on the dropdown) will give you the degree angle (which is what the color board uses) of the hue cast and the Saturation value will give you an indication of the "magnitude" of the cast. Move the appropriate control in the color board to the Hue degree and subtract the % shown by saturation -- and you're "white balanced" (I should say: neutral.) [PS, if you're not going to be using the effect, etc -- simply disable it by clicking on the blue rectangle -- you'll still be able to use the color picker -- and whatever the effect is won't interfere with your color edits.]
If you have Motion, you can build an "eyedropper" quickly by drawing a rectangle, setting the fill opacity to 0 and publishing its fill color -- it can be an effect, a title or most easily: a generator. Titles and generators are most easily dragged around the storyline and don't become "part of" a clip. If you don't have Motion, you can download one here: http://sight-creations.com/fxexchange/eyeDropperAssist.zip (a generator.)

Does Lightroom read white balance settings in NEF files?

I have noticed an interesting difference in white balance color temp using Lightroom vs. Capture NX: In a Nikon D70 RAW shot (with camera white balance set at Direct Sunlight, no fine-tuning) Lightroom shows the "as shot" color temp to be 4850K. Capture NX reads the as shot color temp to be 5200. If Lightroom is reading the NEF w.b. settings, why isn't it reading the K temp as 5200?

Fred Felder:
I still have not been able to find the original post (the links I tried to follow appear to be broken) by Thomas Knoll but I found another message which contains the relevant quote:
Ramón G Castañeda, "D200 White Balance Issue" #13, 30 Aug 2006 3:52 am
which says...
>Thomas Knoll - 10:47am Sep 25, 05 PST (#1 of 101) Edited: 25-Sep-2005 at 12:57pm
>This is the normal and expected result of Adobe Camera Raw and Nikon using different camera profiles and algorithms, and is not a bug.
>Because of the different camera profiles being used, when matching white balance values Camera Raw can either match the white balance appearance (which colors are exactly neutral) or the white balance numbers (exact Kelvin/Tint numbers). In these cases, Camera Raw chose to match the appearance, not the numbers.
>Even if the white balance matches, I don't expect an exact overall appearance match since Camera Raw and Nikon software use a different tone curve and rendering algorithms for non-neutral colors.

IP4 white balance camera app.

Okay, the white balance issue is getting pretty irritating, especially when I email photos or video directly from my phone. Rarely did I color correct the images on my original iPhone, seems like every image needs to be fix on my IP4.
Has anyone found a camera app. that will do color correction or adjust the white balance for photos and videos?
Thanks,

I use photogene. It works perfectly.

White Balance and other Mayhem

This past weekend I was shooting as usual when unexpectedly for several minutes, it was “open season”, anything goes color wise so the footage from that segment is filled with totally inappropriate tints, hues and false coloration like all of the sudden the white balance went haywire amongst other factors.
Then, thrown in for good measure the lighting keep shifting from light to dark to light.
Accordingly, my questions are these:
My goal is to somehow salvage these minutes if it isn’t too much work assuming it can be made to look right. The problem is all of my color correcting experience to date has been solely with digital photography. I have none at all with Premiere and CS3 which appears to eb very involved and complex comparatively speaking. Is there a solution that a newbie to color correction could pursue to some level of success at least as a viable starting point that anyone care to share and explain in some detail?
Does CS 3 have any autofixes or functions exclusively recommended for white balance issues?
For example digital photo editing programs have sliders named just that or maybe they’ll be split between temperature and another associated parameter.
Thanks as any information, suggestions or advice acquired will be used to learn and grow.

Thanks for all of your valuable suggestions.
The problem was compounded when there were drastic shifts in the levels of ambient light also occuring at the same time.
Happy Holidays to everyone.
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