Imported Footage in now a green screen

Using Final Cut Pro 7.0.3 on a Mac OSX Lion 10.7.3 system. Imported footage into FCP is now showing in the Viewer as a green screen. Also, I cannot import new footage now thru "Import - Sony XD Cam." System was working fine thru 2013 and was powered down and not used for two weeks. Powered up and Compressor had issues and now FCP. Any thoughts?

I found a thread that answered this problem which many are dealing with. Try the Perian downloads below. It did the trick for me. THANKS MAK!
I also had a similar problem to most people here. Cannot playback XDCAM files after upgrading from 10.5.8 to Snow Leopard 10.6.8. I called Apple who suggested a fresh install of Snow Leopard without upgrading the 'ProApps QuickTime Codecs 1.0.3' and copy the contents of the Library/QuickTime form the fresh install into my QT library. However, I decided to seek the file(s) that is the cause which is the AppleHDV.Component file. I copied the faulty one to my desktop (so I had a backup) and downloaed:
PerianXDCam.component.zip -> PerianXDCam.component
PerianHDV.component.zip -> PerianHDV.component
from this website: http://blog.lib.umn.edu/mcfa0086/discretecosine/164630.html
Once unzipped, copy into the Library/QuickTime folder and this should solve your problem, until Apple and Sony resolve this issue.
Good Luck,
MAK

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