Clips rendered in After Effects appear blown out in Color.

720p DVCPRO 23.98 project from FCP has graphics rendered in After Effects (same codec) in sequence.
They appear fine in the FCP project. All the properties of the graphic clips match the same settings as the footage that was shot.
Once in COLOR the clips rendered from AE appear blown-out, washed-out...
Any ideas why or how to correct this?
thanks!

There is also a problem with Big-Endian-ness being flip-flopped with dpx files incompatible with some external graphics processing software. This has the feel of some sort of scaling misinterpretation.
Shake was broken (in Quicktime) for anything above 8-bit for a long time before that finally got fixed about 6 months ago. All of a sudden (after the FCS2 introduction and Quicktime update) all we got out after a seemingly normal render (showed up fine in Preview) was a big noiseball of something that looked vaguely like it might be the outline of the original media. Its curious that FCP previews it "okay"... did you indicate the recompressing software? Compressor?
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