[Tom Mulligan]

First thing you’ll want to do is learn how to read your scopes, they’re your friends. You can find plenty of useful tutorials on line. Start with the waveform form monitor and exposure tab. Adjust the highlights of both cameras so they are the same. Whites should be at 100% or slightly below depending on preference. Blacks should be at zero or slightly above. Mid tones you want between 50 and 75%. This will get the exposure and contrast close, you may have to tweak a little.

Next step is color. Switch to vectorscope. Then use the crop tool to reduce your footage to a evenly exposed square on the white wall. Preferably the same spot on both cameras. Once cropped you’ll see a dot on the vector scope. Move the color pucks until that dot is dead center. Press reset on the crop tool so your full frame comes back and the walls should be pure white. Next crop a piece of exposed skin on your talent. on your vectorscope you’ll see a skin colored line, adjust the pucks so the skin line falls on the vector scope’s skin tone line (that line on a 45 degree angle between 9 and 12 o’clock). Undo the crop and your camera’s should match, you may have to play with saturation a little.

If you’re not happy with the “look” , say you want to warm or cool the picture, lock down your edit first. Next drop an adjustment layer above all your clips, highlight the adjustment layer then use the layers color adjustment to make a universal change to the project.