Debugging general error on import into FinalCutPro

I'm a developer (new to Apple products) who is working on interoperation with FinalCutPro of quicktime-wrapped clips which are not wrapped by Apple muxers. When I attempt to import the clips to FCP, I frequently see "General Error" with a red preview screen. Occasionally, FCP crashes soon after the import. If the import fails, FCP is unable to import other clips that it's normally able to import (eg, quicktime clips that it has exported) until FCP is shut down and restarted.
I've narrowed the investigation to a single clip, which contains a single h264 video track (fourcc "avc1") with no audio or timecode tracks. The clip I'm using plays ok in mplayer, vlc, quicktime, and quicktime pro, but FCP issues a general error.
The question: are there validation tools on the Mac that will report problems with the wrapping, or logging from FCP that will give more detail on why FCP issues the general error? I'm pursuing the issue now by analyzing an FCP export atom by atom and variable by variable against the clip, and tweaking the clip when it doesn't match the FCP export, but since there are hundreds of details, it's a long hunt.
Thanks for any help ...

The best place to ask developer questions is here:
https://lists.apple.com/mailman/listinfo/pro-apps-dev
Two things to bear in mind:
1. It sounds like you're using FCP 7 or below. These versions do not work well with long-GOP media.
2. For some reason Apple appear to have written (or partially written) their own QuickTime parser in FCP, so in some cases it will not open files that play in QuickTime Player or other apps that use the QT API. For example, I vaguely recall an issue where FCP doesn't parse ImageDescription extensions correctly in certain instances and you have to add whitespace that's not in the spec to get it to work.

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