Calibrite ColorChecker Video XL

The Calibrite ColorChecker Video XL is an expanded tool designed for the video production process, particularly tailored to meet the needs of filmmakers, cinematographers, and color grading professionals. Its larger format is ideal for achieving precise color and exposure settings in an array of contexts, from wide shots to locations where the target needs to be positioned further from the camera. Specially designed for shooting from greater distances or when capturing wide shots. The increased size ensures the ColorChecker is visible and usable in the frame, even when positioned further away from the camera. Selection of saturated and desaturated chromatic colors, enabling precise color adjustments in post-production by providing a reference for color balance and intensity.Six skin tone color chips represent a variety of skin tones, allowing for accurate skin tone reproduction. They are essential for portrait and people-focused video productions, ensuring natural and consistent skin depiction. Multiple gray levels facilitate the camera's exposure setting and the adjustment of the lighting ratio between different areas of the scene. Linear grayscale regions help in controlling the camera's tonal response, aiding in achieving the desired depth and detail in shadows, midtones, and highlights.

Illumination check black and white chips are useful for setting the camera’s exposure and checking the evenness of the lighting. The black and white chips provide contrast points for setting the scene's illumination correctly. It is designed to simplify the process of setting the correct exposure, managing color balance, and ensuring consistent color and brightness levels throughout the production. It is widely supported by leading editing and color grading software, making it an invaluable tool during post-production for achieving accurate color correction and grading. 
The Calibrite ColorChecker Video XL represents an essential tool for professionals dedicated to capturing and producing video content with the highest fidelity to real-world colors, accurate exposure, and meticulous attention to detail in color grading.

Product Features in Detail

Calibrite ColorChecker Video XL
The Calibrite ColorChecker Video XL provides an extra-large format for effortlessly capturing the target at greater distances and wider angles. It provides the same chromatic colours, skin tones and gray reference chips of the standard size ColorChecker Video, but twice as large.  You’ll be able to eliminate the need to move your camera closer or adjust the focal length of your lens, shoot in the same lighting condition that is falling on your subject and minimise colour casting from any surrounding light. You’ll also be able to increase the capture resolution for more accurate post-production work.

The Calibrite ColorChecker Video XL is designed for those longer and wider shots when the space between your camera and subject is too great to capture a smaller target.

Ideal for large production environments such as:

Cine-Wide Shots: Landscape, Cityscape, Custom Sets

Event Filmmaking: Concerts, Churches, Sports, Stage

Aerial Filmmaking: Drones

Using a ColorChecker Video XL target at capture gets you to a worry-free, colour balanced, consistently neutral and ideally exposed place faster than ever before. It’s an essential colour tool you won’t want to be without, saving you valuable time from pre-production through post.

ColorChecker Video XL is an extra-large all-in-one durable and rigid video target.

ColorChecker Video charts make your workflow faster, more consistent and more colour balanced. They allow everyone on your team – from producer to cinematographer to editor to colourist – to work with consistent colour information. They save you time, from pre-production through production, and help you get to your creative look faster.

Achieving the proper colour balance and exposure for video can be challenging. F-stops in cameras don’t always match. Ambient lighting conditions change. Multiple cameras and lenses have different looks, even if they are the same brand and model. All of this adds up to quality control challenges and increased workload in post-production for your colourist or editor. Here’s what ColorChecker Video offers:

Video Colour Target
Speed up your colour grading workflow by achieving ideal exposure and colour balance, whether shooting with one camera or multiples. The colour chart includes a series of chromatic colour chips, skin tone chips, grey chips and illumination check chips. The layout is designed for ideal performance when used with vectorscopes and waveforms, whether on-camera or in software.

Chromatic Colours:  two rows of six chromatic colour chips, both saturated and desaturated, specifically designed to align with the colour axis on a vectorscope. These colours provide two levels of colour information to more quickly achieve an ideal colour balance.

Skin Tones:  ranging from light to dark with subtle undertones to better reproduce accurate flesh tones. This row of chips is positioned on the outer edge of the target for easy alignment.

Large Grey Levels: four larger steps for even grey balance, including white, 40IRE grey, deep grey and high gloss black. These levels are ideal for determining proper exposure whether you use a waveform, zebras, or false colours.  Use these levels to align the exposure and contrast of cameras you are matching and ensure that mid-tones are rendered accurately. These chips are positioned in the centre of the test target for maximum exposure, even on a wide set.

Linear Greyscale: six colour chips for achieving even grey balance. This row addresses highlight and shadow regions.

Illumination Check Chips: black and white chips at two corners to better assist in determining even illumination across the target

3rd Party Software Support
ColorChecker Video is supported by 3rd party software solutions for improved colour grading and efficiencies.

- DaVinci Resolve
- 3DLUT Creator