StopTheScript for Safari, is my new go to extension

From Jeff Johnson of Underpass App Company, this works in safari in iOS and Mac.

This app stops Javascript from running on pages, and I use it to block sites that make you turn off content blockers before you can view the site.

I know sites need revenue, but random ads only annoy me, and some of that is that I edit commercials, so I know the tricks and they just annoy me! So i block them and making me turn off my content blockers annoys me even more!

This takes a little effort and a little work, but it does what it says (and some pages break when you stop the scripts), and I love it.

CUT/DAILY #374 – After Effects for Everyone

After Effects is actually one of the most valuable creative programs to learn as an editor.

CUT DAILY #374 – After Effects for Everyone

It is so true, every editor should know After Effects. Honestly I mostly don’t even consider doing any graphics in my NLE and just jump into after effects, but I have also been using it for well over 20 years now, and am always learning something new. So spend sone time and learn something new.

Hope everyone had happy holidays

I took longer than I thought I would off, so sorry about that.

My mon was here, which was awesome! We watched allot of movies and went to the Academy Museum.

The Museum is great, though like the redone Peterson, it feels like they wasted a bunch of space, as though architecture was more important than the museum itself And the second floor is confusing to navigate (we kept having to loop back). The John Waters exhibit was fantastic and so in depth, and the science fiction room is just unbelievable, though i wish it was an entire floor!

Edward Scissor Hands
The Dark Crystal
Alien
2001 a Space Odyssey
Blade Runner
Terminator
2001 A Space Odyssey

Anyway had a great holiday, and hope you all did too.

-Jonah

Motion Array has an excellent DaVinci Resolve Green Screen & Chroma Keying Tutorial

As always from Motion Array it is in depth and really a good tutorial, so check it out.

This is for Chroma Keying with the color page, which is very powerful. Of course I have been going further with the Fusion page (necessary for some of the keying i am doing for my next short), but that is another step ahead.

Display Maid for Mac allows you to save and restore window locations

Since moving to my new Mac Studio I have had one annoying problem. I run a 2 monitor setup and my Apple silicon mac will not sleep or put it display to sleep if the computer is running something I told it to do. For me that would be batch video conversions or the like which I set to run overnight. On my intel mac, I could set the render and then put my mac to sleep and the monitors would at least turn off, but on my Apple Silicon Mac, it won’t sleep, put on the screen saver, or turn off the displays while the render is going, and since my Mac is in my house that means it is bright and I can see the light from my bedroom. So to let me sleep I turn the monitors off, but when I do this everything from both monitors gets scattered all over my first display and nothing is on my second display, and I have to re-arange my windows.

I tried googling this and tried a few free options off github, but nothing worke, so I tried Display Maid from Funk-iSoft.

It is a very simple app that adds an item to your menu bar, though it doesn’t automatically launch on it’s own (I added it to login items) and you can save a state then turn off your monitors and restore when you turn them back on.

Though the restore on an external display is added or removed doesn’t seem to work for me, but the menu does.

You save all Window Positions and then restore all window positions. it is not elegant, but it works. I just Apple would remember where my damn windows were!