Import from FCP; silent clips

On a weekly basis I'm taking clips from FCP, selecting the sequence in the browser, and exporting for a multitrack STP project. I open it up in Soundtrack, wait 10 minutes while it does its thing, crossing my fingers it works this time as STP tends to crash one in three times at this point. Assuming it works I do get in I always seem to have a few clips that are properly placed in the multitrack timeline, but when I play they do not have any audio. This is really odd as Soundtrack properly draws their waveform. Since the waveform is present the clip is obviously connected. The meters for that track don't move, with the volume from -infinity to +6 the result is the same. I'm using the stereo panner set to center and the subgroup assignment to none.
I've found two "fixes" for this - which are more workarounds than fixes. The first one is I can drop it onto another track and it works just fine, but if I move it back to the track it was on it won't work. The other one is sometimes a control-click, then Channel Select -> Mono -> 1 or 2 instead of Stereo -> 1&2 sometimes makes it work but not always.
I hate moving the clips to a new layer as there doesn't seem to be a good way to move them to a new layer without them shifting time at all. Is this a noted error, or is there a good fix for this problem?
Thanks for your time hand help!
Jeff

Are you still having this issue? I have the same thing; certain clips are "there" but just won't play. Did you investigate your sample rate? I have certain music clips that were not resampled and are at 44.1 in a 48 sequence. they play fine, export, compress etc. and all of them export to STP multitrack, except for one piece which will not play.

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