Quicktime MOV conversion to FLV results in greyout video

Hi,
I use FCP 7.0.1 on Snow Leopard and my end videos I export as Quicktime videos. Then I convert this MOV to FLV using Adobe Media Encoder CS4.
I didn't have any problems till yesterday when I did the adobe update, and my Media Encoder was also updated to the newest version...now my FLVs are all greyed out. Looks like washed out video. There is no white.
I didn't find the appropriate forum for Adobe Media Encoder CS4 so I posted this up here!
Please help! Any advice on what could be wrong?
Thanx in advance!
Imre

Are you sending your sequence to Compressor? Using any of the H.264 settings in Compressor, ie. youtube sharing, web download 7 folder will convert to .flv. Once you output the .mov file, rename or just add the .flv extension. Hint: make sure that in your encoding tab you have "fast start" selected.
The renamed file works beautifully in my html editor (Dreamweaver CS4) and plays in my Adobe Media player. The only problem I am having is with my PC clients. We can not figure out why they can not play downloaded .flv files on their window based PC's. I have files encoded in both Compressor and Adobe Media Encoder. We did figure out today that the files renamed from Compressor (.mov) to .flv do play in the QT®player.
Larry
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