Video green when mpeg 2 is imported

Question

When I imported the mpeg2 file and aiff sound, put it to a track and linked it to a menu all I got when I simulated the file was a green background with sound. What's the problem

Answer 1

Thank God finally somewhat has the same problem we have been having (OK, I'm not really thankful). The Green Phantom Asset! That is, the asset looks green in the clip window, but plays back as black in simulate. Audio is fine.
For us, the .m2v files will play in Quicktime fine, but not when imported in as an asset.
We believe it only occurs when we use Compressor on a Intel iMac. We can export several very similar sequences (using basically the same media and plug in filters, etc.) and some do fine, others go green on us. I also note that it MAY only occur when we are replacing previously encoded assets, but we need to do more reseach and testing to see if we've had the problem on a first time attempt at encoding and putting it into DVDSP.
Our only workaround is to export from FCP as a QT reference, then import it as an asset. Then, be sure to check your encoding setting (right click on the yellow button) and make sure it matches your other encodings. Then of course, you have a much longer burn, since it DVDSP has to do the heavy lifting.
I hope someone else can figure out the "green phantom" problem.
Philip Hohle