Canvas and View have gone green

The canvas and viewer windows in our FCP 5.4.1 are green and will not display video. We've restarted computer, and then re-installed FCP. FCP has been working well on this computer for over a year. Any ideas? Thanks.

sounds like something corrupt in your preference files
FCP uses these files to configure your set up ... when things go screwy its often a good place to start
note: reinstalling FCP doesn't help in this instance, because the preference files are not part of the install.
trashing your prefernce files can be done mnaually
but even easier is to use a nice bit of freeware caled FCP Rescue which is designed to perform this task ... it also lets you make a backup of your settings when they are good, which you can restore later if things go screwy again
you can grab it here: make sure you download the version that matches your version of FCP
http://fcprescue.andersholck.com

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