Re: Color Temp Range

Thanks for the clarifying diagram. The HVX2000 will tolerate any color shift. As for broadcast safe colors, if you orange is too intense, your NLE should have a filter to control that. I doubt you are close to that problem.

So it looks like you will have very warm edges from the CSTs. I see no problem at all. These units are tungsten, and adding a layer of CTO will just make for a very warm splash. The only problem I can see is, are these units strong enough?

Also, is your softlight daylight or tungsten? If it's tungsten, you might consider balancing to tungsten, and let the 3 HMIs provide a very blue back and edge rim, the CSTs a very warm side/front edge, and the softlight a "normal" light. In such a case, you might use 2 HMI back lights from rear left and rear right, take 2 stronger tungsten units with CTO mid back left and right, and possibly one or 2 front fills with "normal" tungsten soft light(s).

Many different ways to go.

Rick Wise
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