Editing The Vengeance of the Green Bar

You see that green bar? That damn green overlay over the bottom of that video? Well, that's there because After Effects is persistent that for me to get a video to work, it has to be a douche throughout the entire experience.

For some reason, that green bar appears over all AVI videos being used, and isn't on the videos themselves, just in After Effects. Seriously. We checked. God knows why it happens. It also appeared in the videos when we rendered them, so that's annoying.

We couldn't find a PROPER way of getting around this, so we had two choices. Either:

• Create a black bar covering the bottom and top sections of the image (you know, the classic "cinematic" look)

or

• Stretch the image slightly in order to hide the green section of the image

We tried out both of these options, and these were the results:

We've chosen to use the "stretched" workaround, because it doesn't distort the image too much, and the black bar looks just seems a tad cheesy.

So, yeah. That's how we got over that problem.