Interesting Film Look Process

I've found an interesting site with a very indepth Film Look process. It uses Photoshop, and incorporates many different steps to a lot of other methods I have seen. Instead of editing the base layer of the frame/movie, it builds up layers on top using the original frame as reference, some of these layers include highlights, softening out the digital artifacts, adjusting the color curves, and manipulating the channels.

In my eyes it does the best job of a distinctive film style look, and seems to even increase the quality and clarity of the frame slightly because the original frame is never destructively edited or changed. To apply this effect to movie sequences, however, is quite an involved process since you would have to export to image sequences, batch process the many steps, then reimport the image sequences. Whether you would do normal color correction/grading before or after these steps I have no idea. I would experiment with my current footage, but it has already been processed by the incamera CineLook. Best results come from straight DV or HDV footage. I will try some of these steps with my next short however.

The link is http://www.dcs.gla.ac.uk/~jhw/filmy/index.html