Can't QuickLook FCP 7 Reference Movies, AVIs, WMVs

Greetings!
So. Before Mavericks, one could QuickLook at a FCP 7 reference movie. That functionality is now gone, as is the ability to QuickLook at an .AVI (sent to me by my client from time-to-time), and Windows Media (WMV) files (requested by my clients from time-to-time). Self-contained MOV files work OK.
Also: Quicktime used to open FCP 7 reference movies. This is no longer true.
Anyone there at Apple have any idea if you're working on a fix for this?
Thanks!
--Ant.

We typically use reference movies from FCP (so we don't have a ton of big self-contained files laying around), then compress them using other apps (MPEG Streamclip mainly, because it does such a great job). The source files of the FCP project (the source clips, that is) are varied: ProRes 422, XDCAM, H.264, etc. Those files play OK in QuickLook (and QuickTime), but the reference movies that refer to those files now do not play in QuickLook (or QT).
It's odd to me that all-of-a-sudden the FCP reference movie is not supported by QuickLook (or the current version of QuickTime). The WMV and AVI "legacy" codec thing I get, but the idea that a reference movie is a "codec" to be left behind is confusing to me.

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