IMovie imports only audio - video is gray/green

When I import videos from either my iPhone or iPhoto library, the video shows up gray or green.
I have a MacBook Pro 13 inch with 8 gb ram.(Early 2011 model)
How can I resolve this issue?

I can't find any reference anywhere to a Samsung SC-D363 ..perhaps there's an error in the model name or number.
Any device which creates videos on SD storage should automatically copy them into iPhoto when you start that up with the device connected via USB.
Or, if that doesn't work, connect the Samsung and look in your Mac's 'Applications' folder for the 'Image Capture' program: that should recognise the camera and import from the SD card.
With either of those methods - but especially with iPhoto - any movies which are playable in iMovie can then be imported from iPhoto.
iMovie can play MPEG-4 videos (..mini videos which have been saved in MPEG-4 format ..see your Samsung's instruction book to find out what format the camera uses for movies..) and it can play some .avi and other movie formats. In some cases, though, you might find that the video plays OK, but there's no sound. In those cases you could try playing the movie(s) using the QuickTime program.
If your Samsung is a normal DV camcorder which also saves mini-movies to the SD card, then you'll be able to use a USB cable to copy the mini-movies, as described above, but you'll need a FireWire/DV/i.Link (different names for the same thing) 4-pin-to-six-pin cable to copy normal DV video from the camcorder to your Mac.

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