Color Shift from Quicktime Movie

Ok, Here is my problem. When I do a copy and paste into director from a Quicktime movie for the first and last frame of my movie the is a noticible color shift when the movie starts to play on my command and when the movie transitions from the last frame of the QT to the still i have placed at the end of the movie.
Any ideas?

My director skills are fairly basic. Any chance you can direct me to an online tutorial that would walk me through this process?
Open your Director file. Locate a QuickTime member in your cast library. Open the Property Inspector and navigate it to the QuickTime tab where you should uncheck DTS. Drag this member onto the stage to create a sprite in channel 1 in an otherwise empty section of your score. Open your Message Window and execute the following lines of code, one at a time, by pressing the RETURN key at the end of each line:
sprite(1).movieTime = 0
updateStage
new(#bitmap).image = (the stage).image.duplicate.crop(sprite(1).rect)
sprite(1).movieTime = sprite(1).member.duration
updateStage
new(#bitmap).image = (the stage).image.duplicate.crop(sprite(1).rect)

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