Needing to color correct a bunch of blue clips!

I recently did a shoot and the other shooter I hired gave me a bunch of blue video. What is the fastest way I can color correct those clips? I used a color corrector 3 way on those clips but it didn't really take the blue out. I then copied the settings from my camera (it was a 2 camera shoot) and then pasted the attributes to the problem clips and again I didn't see much of a difference with the blue being removed. Am I doing something wrong?
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Using the 3-way there is a feature...white balance. There is an eyedropper next to the HIGHLIGHTS wheel. Use that to click on something in the image that is supposed to be white. The 3-way will then adjust the settings to make that white.
Same with the LOWS. Use that eyedropper to hit something that is supposed to be black.
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seems to do the trick ! take some time getting used to, though. The additionnal problem is the source material I have: original 8mm films with multiple scene changes, but being film, the first frames are always overexposed compared to the rest of the shot. So using the actual keyframe position for CC can't always be done. So...
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This way of timing is closer to professionnal film to tape transfer I dabbled with on younger days.
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Back to work. I have 2 hours of the stuff to time :-)
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That's a great idea, why didn't I think of that? Thank you for your fast reply, I got it near instantly on the iPhone and was laughing at how simple and smart a solution you had!
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