[Steve Loomis]

I have been looking for a solution to the green screen with audio problem as above. I did a clean install of Lion then FCP 7. Updated everything. No Joy, green screen. After reading above I then looked in my install disk for FCP 7 and located the codecs and compared. I tried to reinstall from the install disk and got the message that I could not replace newer files or something like that. I looked in the Library/Quicktime folder and the dates were NOT newer but the file sizes were smaller on the HDV codec, the one my JVC HM100U uses. I copied the old file to a safe place, trashed the file in the quicktime folder and replaced it with the one from the FCP 7 install disk. Now I have video and audio. I changed out a few other codec’s just in case. I am now thinking I may just completely remove FCP from my new drive, reinstall, copy the Library/Quicktime folder then update and check again to see if the update kills the codec’s. I can then replace all codec’s with the “as installed” codecs and hopefully be OK.

I am not sure if Apple is trying to discourage use of FCP7 or just made a mistake. Hard to tell. I won’t be doing any more updates once this is all working and a clone drive is made.