Color errantly rendering black across all my clips' rightmost 1/3rd

Editing in a 3072 x 1536 Custom Aspect Ratio, Sq. Pixel 23.98 sequence in FCP 6.0.5, all footage = ProRes HQ; all time-remapped clips baked. Sent to Color, and, after grading, I rendered and attempted to round-trip back to FCP. Only, once arriving in FCP, and indeed, in the rendered Quicktime files themselves in the Color Media folder, every single clip has its proportions correct (no distortion within the content) but the right-most 1/4 of the width of each Quicktime, top to bottom, is now completely black.
For the life of me, I can't get it to render correctly. Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
Message was edited by: SheikYoboudi
Message was edited by: SheikYoboudi

You might ask yourself, "Why doesn't FCP and COLOR just 'do it' at the original 2K, 3K, 4K resolutions?" This would unfortunately be a "thoughtful", or "skeptical" reaction, much frowned on by the sycophantic fanboy tifosi who have swallowed the marketing... much like any unquestioning religion where any dissent is dealt with pretty much by inquisition and excommunication, or execution as infidel or apostate.
But when the data hits the mainframe, its a 4K _Bayer pattern_, like any DSLR produces, and 2K color is what you get, as a maximum, not up-rezzed, native resolution. And yes, there appears to be some form of "native" R3D support in the Apple world, but still it is really being wrappered in ProRes as temp RTE playback. So, on one hand, a) expect to do a massive amount of rendering, which on the other hand leads to b) not much productivity, or post efficiency.
While the device might be a boon to production and the set (even if it is a bit 'slow', requires a lens kit and mounts worth ORDERS of MAGNITUDE more than the body, and exposes the original media to catastrophic loss by simple failures), it still presents a very large challenge to post, as it is massively processor-intensive (by their own admission), and guess who has to make up that difference?
I'd find it wildly amusing (if it wasn't so farcical) that there has to be at least a dozen companies now claiming to the the "ONLY" RED-workflow production solution. And there's a "gotcha" in every one of them.
Please.
jPo

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