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Message: <blockquote data-quote="WayneF" data-source="post: 527390" data-attributes="member: 12496">Don't be very trusting of the advertised daylight colors (5600K).  The two types of light may not be the same thing.That is not the normal white balance concept, my bet is that who ever said that blue thing had absolutely no clue.  The idea of the white card is that it is neutral, a pure white that has no color cast in it. But it picks up a tint in colored light.  Then the white balance tool clicks it, and removes any color cast found there, and makes it actually be balanced (neutral, all three RGB channels to be the same numbers, which is actual white (which removes any tint on it, no longer tinted). You place that white card in the same light in the same situation as your video will be, and then this is the correct correction.If you clicked a blue card, it should remove its blue color, and also remove any color cast on it. Which is something extra, when all you want to do is remove the color cast.  White is what works  (or any neutral gray that is not too dark, but NOT blue).My video experience is with Cyberlink PowerDirector (video editor), and it has such a white balance tool, and it works good.   I use it with a Porta Brace White Balance card ($5, 5x7 inches, at B&H, and it is white).Or what Sparky said...  but you still need a white card.   The Nikon camera does this too, preset White balance, by filling the viewfinder with a white card (or paper). The camera has a mode to do this same concept, called Preset Manual.    It is described in detail on page 72 of the D7200 REFERENCE Manual, which is available free at<a href="http://downloadcenter.nikonimglib.com/en/products/20/D3200.html" target="_blank">Nikon | Download center | D3200</a>The Reference manual is big full size complete manual, much more info than the skimpy User Manual that ships with D3200.  And, the PDF is searchable.Or just using a letter size sheet of cheap white copy paper works pretty well, it is pretty white, and works as well as any alternate choice (the real card is more precisely accurate - but there won't be a big difference - day and night better than no try at all).     The card needs to fill the camera viewfinder, and exact focus may not be possible that close, but focus doesn't matter - it simply should just fill the viewfinder with white (it's about color).  Of course, you use it on location, WHERE YOUR SUBJECT IS, in the same light you are tying to balance.  This gives you a white balance setting that makes that white card actually be white in that light. Then your video should have no more color cast (until you do something different to change the situation). Totally accurate white balance can be a real pleasure, but it can also be a bit clinical at times.  Sometimes we might like skin tones to have a slight extra pink tint.</blockquote>

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