Media Manager-QT Files Seen As Audio

I've never had issues with Media Manger in the past, but this one has me stumped. I need to collect a sequence into it's own project for another editor to work on. I've done this many times in the past so the process isn't the problem. Everything seems to go fine, but when you open the project, the QT file appears blank. In other words, on the timeline the clips don't have a thumbnail and they play back as white. If I go the finder and look at the files, they again don't show any thumbnail and when opened in QT Player, it plays as an audio file and not a video with audio. Quick preview in Finder also displays an iTunes icon.
There is one exception to this problem. In one shot, I did extensive editing in Photoshop and exported back to ProRes HQ video. This clip shows up in the timeline and on the desktop properly. I've tried several different things such as clearing out ALL the render files, trashing the prefs, using MM from withing the sequence and while selecting the sequence icon in the project window. Tried these to different drives in case it was a network thing.
FYI - The clips in question (before MM) are all ProRes HQ that were created from REDcine X. Not sure if that matters, but the specs viewable in QT Player are simple 1920x1080 ProRes HQ files.
Anyone ever see this before? Very annoying to say the least.
Thanks for any advice.

seem to remember people reporting problems with proreshq files. You might try transcoding to a different prores flavor and see if that works.
Also, although I doubt it's the source of your problem, MediaManager sometimes has problems with clips that don't have a reel name associated with them. Since you're bringing the files in from photoshop, they probably don't have a reel name. you can manually add a reel name in the browser (and you can add the reel name to multiple clips at the same time)

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