Limitation on tracks? (Color import)

Hello,
I ran into a strange problem the other day. I received an OMF from an Adrenaline and imported this into Final Cut Pro, via Automatic Duck v 2.01. There were 5 video tracks. It came across just fine, all 5 tracks, with all video clips and graphics intact. However, when I sent this sequence to Color, it created 5 tracks, but there were video clips and graphics on tracks 1 and 2 only. Tracks 3-5 were completely empty!
Another project I created from scratch in FCP with 5 tracks came across no problem. Anybody else ran into this?
Thanks,
Norman.
G5 Mac OS X (10.4.10) AJA Kona

I
received an OMF from an Adrenaline and imported this
into Final Cut Pro, via Automatic Duck v 2.01. There
were 5 video tracks. It came across just fine, all 5
tracks, with all video clips and graphics intact.
However, when I sent this sequence to Color, it
created 5 tracks, but there were video clips and
graphics on tracks 1 and 2 only. Tracks 3-5 were
completely empty!
Automatic Duck is probably creating an element in the timeline that Color doesn't recognize and is causing Color to not import anything after that.
I'd open the OMF in FCP first, then I'd go through looking for any placeholders, filters, etc around the area where Color stopped the import.
Be sure to read the latest release notes about what kind of graphics & stills will break Color and clean them out of the timeline before sending them to Color.
- pi
Dual 2.5 Mac OS X (10.4.9) Decklink HD Pro, ATI x800 XT

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