Color flickering on exported QT video

When I export video from FCP using Quicktime Conversion, my videos come out with this weird flickering color at odd places in the video.
For example, you can see this weird flickering at about 42 seconds into this video: http://www.stonehomephoto.com/index/1802_lakeshore.html
How do I export so I don't get this flickering color????
Here's my workflow. Perhaps I'm doing something wrong:
1) From FCP, when finished editing video, first you need to export it as a mov file. Go File>Export>Using Quicktime Conversion
2) In the pop-up, chose a location and name the file. For "Format" chose "Quicktime Movie" and click "Options"
3) In the options pop-up, click "settings" and make sure that "compression type" is H.264, "Frame Rate" is "current", "Key Frams" are set to "automatic", "data rate" is set to "automatic", quality high, encoding "best quality". Click OK.
4) Click "Size" click custom and type 1920 x 1080. Leave "preserve aspect ration" and "deinterlace source video" unchecked. Click OK.
5) Click OK.
6) Click Save.

I just realized that the actual clip in the timeline is showing this color flickering. I tried turning off some of the filters I applied and, sure enough, when I turned off the filter "brightness and contrast" under the "quicktime" category of video filters, the flickering disappeared. I then tried the "brightness and contrast (bezier)" under the "image control" category, applied the same settings as with the quicktime version, and no flickering! So, the quicktime filter is the problem.
Has anyone else experienced this with the quicktime brightness and contrast filter?

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