How to Get a Bleach Bypass Look on HDV Footage

[ZevB]

Is there any way that I can achieve a bleach bypass look on HDV?

 

[ZevB]

Hey guys,
Just wondering if any of you know how to achieve a bleach bypass look on HDV.
Thanks.

 

[David Mullen ASC]

The bleach-bypass look is something like:
Desaturated color
Crushed blacks / clipped whites (i.e. high contrast)
Grain

So you can do all of that in digital color-correction, and some cameras allow you to do that in the menu -- the only trick is whether you think adding noise will substitute for grain.

 

[ZevB]

Thanks,
I'll give it a shot

 

[HDhead]

Desaturate color, reduce luma gamma and increase luma contrast. There may even be some plugins for this but you can get very good results with color correction tools alone. HDV is heavily compressed so you may start seeing encoding artifacts.