Johnnie To/Wai ka fai & Milkyway Image.

After seeing Wai ka fai in person, watched his movies. Found out that Johnnie To is more productive in terms of number and commercialism. Wai ka fai has lesser films but has more essence.

1998 A Hero Never Dies 真心英雄 Johnnie To
Expect the Unexpected 非常突然 Patrick Yau Ghost-directed by Johnnie To.
The Longest Nite 暗花 Patrick Yau Ghost-directed by Johnnie To.
The Mission 鎗火 Johnnie To
Needing You... 孤男寡女 Johnnie To
Wai Ka-Fai
2001 Fulltime Killer 全職殺手 Johnnie To
Wai Ka-Fai
Love on a Diet 瘦身男女 Johnnie To
Wai Ka-Fai
2002 My Left Eye Sees Ghosts 我左眼見到鬼 Johnnie To
Wai Ka-Fai

2003 PTU PTU Johnnie To Also known as PTU: Police Tactical Unit; start of the Tactical Unit series.

Running on Karma 大隻佬 Johnnie To
2005 Election 黑社會 Johnnie To

Election 2 黑社會以和為貴 Johnnie To Also known as Triad Election
Exiled 放‧逐 Johnnie To

Mad Detective 神探 Johnnie To
Wai Ka-Fai

Jia Zhangke and his films

heard first time about Jia Zhangke through hong kong international film festival 2011. There was seminar program, i registered for it but didn't attend as didn't know much about him and his works.

Later, when i watched his movies like "Cry Me a River", "The world" and "Still life". I found that he has unique way of story telling. Regretted for missing to see this guy in person.

HK films and Triads stories!

Found that Triad story is one of the best selling story in hong kong cinema.

The first movie I watched was "Infernal Affairs", found that it is a superb movie. Later reproduced in Hollywood version too.

After this movie, watched "Election 1" and "Election 2" .

"Young and Dangerous" part 1 to 6.

These stories tell that triad is like a culture in Chinese people inherited from long time ago.

They fight for the power and supremo. Since it's about the bad guys, there is obviously going to be vulgar comedies, whores, rapes and all.

Sometimes romantic story and woman crossing the line makes it more interesting.

converting the DSLR files to the DNxHD file

This is Perrone Fords solution using MPEG Streamclip converting the 7D native files to the DNxHD file-format:




" File, Export to Quicktime
Choose Avid DNxHD.
Click Options button
Color levels RGB

Click the tiny sliver of a box at the bottom of the window (this is a bug). It will allow you to select the bit rate for DNxHD. Select 1080/24p DNxHD 175 10-bit. Or select 1080/24p 115 8-bit. Experiment with both.

Hover over the Uncompressed selection and the OK button will appear. This is another bug. Click OK.

Set quality to 100%

Uncheck Interlaced Scaling

Select 1920x1080 unscaled
Click "Make Movie"