Stillmotion has put together an informative and well-made little video describing the fundamentals of white balance and a few obscure or hidden features that you can use to personalize your video before it even hits the SD card.
It's Canon-specific, but still worth checking out if you're new to, say, a Nikon or Pentax system. Check it out:
Sure, some of the changes aren't really visible unless you're looking for them, but even the little things matter. They can also affect the way you think, as he notes a few minutes in: you start noticing the temperature of the light, thinking about how your apartment would look with more sunlight and less tungsten.
Color is a powerful tool for expression, even when you don't know what you're doing. A while back I accidentally had my camera set to a cooling white balance while shooting outside in a warm afternoon light, and all my pictures had an icy, bright cast that at first bothered me but soon delighted me. I hadn't thought of the urchins and buoys and things I'd shot as looking any way other than the way I saw them. Yet with a slight change in environment, they would look completely different. I didn't "correct" the white balance after the fact because it ended up being a unique and interesting take -- that I can't exactly take credit for.
They're going to have a second tutorial later in the month for post-processing color effects. If you haven't played with Lightroom or Aperture (to say nothing of Photoshop and the like), you owe it to yourself to give one a try. The versatility of DSLRs made me fall in love with photography all over again, and as nerdy as it sounds, knowing my way around menus and applications was a big part of that.
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