Color cycling in flip4mac output

Here's a weird one. I just finished a bunch of exports of dv quicktimes to wmv's using compressor and there's a noticable cycling of the color from red to green and back again. It's possible that there's a very slight cycling in the original material (there might have been some flourescent light in some of the shoots, but I don't remember any) but it ain't noticeable. Anyone have any ideas as to what's going on. I'm going to do a test compression on a pc and see if it happens there.

not sure if this applies to you or what the issue is but
posted on flip4mac site
http://forum.flip4mac.com/forum/default.aspx?FTVAR_SUBCAT=5&nocookies=y&subcatna me=WMV%20Components%20For%20QuickTime
please refrain from upgrading to QT7.2

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