Your event looked perfect in the room.
Then you got the footage back and everyone looked slightly green.
Here’s what happened — and why it’s more common than you think.
LED fixtures don’t produce a full spectrum of light. They have gaps in their color output that the human eye naturally corrects for. You don’t notice it. Your guests don’t notice it. The room looks great.
Cameras don’t self-correct the same way. They capture what’s actually there — and what’s actually there with a lot of LED fixtures is a green spike in the spectrum. The result: footage with a green cast that’s expensive to fix in post, and sometimes can’t be fully corrected at all.
Incandescent lighting doesn’t have this problem. It produces a continuous, full spectrum of light that cameras have been calibrated for since the beginning of film. Clean, predictable, true-to-life color every time.
This is why fixture selection has to happen before the event — not after you see the footage. And it starts with understanding what kind of event you’re producing.
A high-energy experiential activation has different lighting needs than an executive summit being filmed for distribution. A product launch with a full camera crew requires a completely different fixture spec than a cocktail reception. The event type determines the lighting approach — not the other way around.
At Live Pros, we either use incandescent lighting or LED fixtures with a high TLCI rating, depending on what the production calls for. TLCI (Television Lighting Consistency Index) is the standard that tells you how a fixture actually performs on camera — not just how bright it is.
If your AV company can’t tell you the TLCI rating on their fixtures, your footage will find out for them.
Live Pros specs every fixture for both the room and the camera. Because your event should look as good on screen as it did in person. Talk to our team before your next production.
