Froze footage in Color

When bringing R3D proxy footage into Color, we frequently get footage that plays fine in FCP, but in Color it's just a frozen still. At times, I've found that a source clip which is choking up in one part of the clip will play just fine in other parts of that same source.
If I use ClipFinder to conform the timeline to link up to the Raw, I get the odd frozen clip.
If I Log & Transfer all of the used footage, it doesn't have the freezes, but this seems to be a waste of time making what feel like unnecessary copies of the Raw footage.
I've had this happen on many projects spread over multiple systems (all totally up to date) so it's not just me. Anybody got any idea what's happening to cause the unwanted freeze frames?

You know about ClipFinder -- have you tried the sister utility "Color Fixer"? There is a well-known difficulty with spanned R3D media.
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