[PLUG] Blue Video

[Michael Rasmussen]

On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 06:46:12PM -0700, Denis Heidtmann wrote:
> I used my Canon PowerShot SD780IS to record some videos in open shade on a
> bright sunny day.  I transferred the resulting files to my Ubuntu system.
>  The thumbnails (*.THM) look reasonable, but the videos (*.MOV) which are
> listed as QuickTime, are heavily tinted blue.  ( The subject was a Blue
> Grass band, but not that blue.)  The instructions for the camera do not
> offer choices for video white balance, although it does for the stills.
> 
> One person suggested that that the problem may be in the display SW--I am
> using Movie Player, the default on Ubuntu.
> 
> How do I diagnose the problem?
 
What you describe is what I would expect from a camera balanced for daylight rendering
subjects in open shade. 

This is correctable with any reasonable video editing program.

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