FCP and Color not talking in Leopard

Hi all,
We have just installed Leopard in our Mac Pro. I sent my sequence from FCP to Color but apparently I don't see my sequence in Color.
I tried doing the same procedure in Tiger OS and it worked.
Any help would be very much appreciated

You may need to re-install COLOR as there is a good possibility that you have corrupted the COLOR/FCP hand-off.
There may also be an issue with your prior User Preferences being ignored, as that path may be broken.
jPo

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Hi there,
I get a significant color shift when sending footage - either adjusted or unadjusted/unmodified - from FCP to COLOR.
Before anyone asks, the color shift is visible both internally or on an external broadcast preview monitor.
From within COLOR, I 'send' back to FCP this sequence - which is still without any form of adjustment (apart from being sent to COLOR), the apparent color shift is now visible/added to the imported sequence (from Color).
I've tried this on three separate Macs:
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2. A Mac with the same version of FCP as above. (Snow Leopard)
3. FCP and on a third Mac with an earlier version of FCP. (Leopard)
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If not, does anyone have a solution?
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Dan
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http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2150962&tstart=75

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