Encoding Error caused by Adjustment Layers?

Adjustment extremely are really useful, aren't they?  However today I have come across a problem.
If I add a dissolve (or maybe any transition) between two adjustment layers on the same track, which is necessary if the effect is not keyframable (eg RGB Curves), when I come to render the timeline out, I get an encoding error.
I arrived a this conclusion by a process of trial and error.  The only way around I could see was to ditch the offending ALs and drop the effects onto the underlying clips.  Same result, but not ideal!
Anyone else?  And is there a solution?

Maybe, i don't know: it seems like a straightforward bug or oversight to me.  You'd have thought they might have expected people to want to use adjustment layers in this way.  It's quite common if, for example you have two clips with some kind of transition to want to be able to match the transition in the adjustment layers on top of the clips.
Something else - off topic - that seems a bit clunky is that you have to "create" an adjustment layer, which then appears in the project pane, then drag it into the timeline, then add the effects, etc. 
But those effects aren't then associated with the adjustment layer in the project pane; it is still empty and you can drag it on top of another clip and start adding effects again.  This works fine, of course, but:
(a) It's a confusing metaphor, as they say
(b) It would be handy to be able to keep adjustment layers, complete with effects, to use again (I know you can copy and paste them in the timeline, or alt-drag, but still...)

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