Best setting for night work under lights

Hello
I'm not sure if this the appropriate place to post this. If not can someone advise a good forum.
I am shooting with a Canon HFS10. I am shooting nocturnal animals feeding in the wild using tungsten balanced lights.
My question: Which is the best setting to use for such an event?
Portrait auto white balance
Program tungsten white balance, or
Night setting auto white balance.
I did some shooting on all 3 setting & tell the truth cannot see much difference. This was the reason for an earlier post asking about whether i-movie stored the video shooting conditions.
Thank you.....IAIN

Of course this is a camera / videography question. I would say, from my own limited experience, that low light conditions might sometimes be handled best by the "auto" setting - let the camera adjust itself seems to gain best results for me.
Otherwise - I would also look for a user group on line: either for general video-making or for the specific camera you own.
Also remember that, in iMovie 8.0, double-clicking on any clip brings up the editing controls panel where you can adjust such things as Levels, brightness/exposure and saturation. These tools can compensate "noticeably" if not completely on clips shot under less than optimum conditions.

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