Hi,

I've been thinking to adjust the white balace on my dvd camera to the position of incandecent and halogen light and to adjust the camera to the spotlight position or sport position. If i understand corectly white balance is an ajustement so that the colors look vivid and not washed out and the other adjustement is for the focus so that the image is very clear and not out of focus.

normaly there is another person that the cameraman to do this in real cinema. That cameraman assitent is in charge of ligtning,ajusting the camera,changing the lens ect.. It's also the camera assitent that tells the cameraman what to shoot. I mean what to put the camera objective on so that the actors never get out of the objective.

The white balance will shift colors so that white is really white. Our eyes do this automatically, but in truth, sunlight is blue and electric lights are yellow.

White balance will not help if the picture is washed out. If that is the case, you should try lowering gain, or exposure.

I'm not familiar with your camera, so I can't be sure what the Spotlight and Sports modes do.

In "real filmmaking" the Director of photography confers with the Director, and then instructs the Gaffer (who sets up the lights, with the help of grips) and the AC (assistant camera) who runs the camera with the help of the 2nd and 3rd AC,

By wrestling, I assume you mean pro-wrestling, which I've videotaped before. I used 3 identical midrange Canon camcorders, and I had one guy on the apron, one guy on the outside of the ring, and one guy getting a wide shot, I put all of the footage in the computer, synced up each match, and edited from 3 different angles.

Since I used identical cameras, the white balance was caliberated identically on each one and I just manually adjusted everything as best I could after everything was edited, and it looked ok.

I'm sure this will work with any kind of wrestling, boxing, or MMA, or anything else involving people in some kind of ring or mat.

I understand now. I know that the light from light bulbs is quite yellowish. The white balance will turn that yellow lightning into white light like if it was natural ligth. In the end the color will be better looking.

Yes but putting the camera into spotlight position it should lower the exposition