Red flashing over my keyed video footage

I'm fairly new to AE, and I have had some problems after keying video footage.
I have keyed my footage as prescribed in the adobe tutorial that is available on this site, using Keylight 1.2. This has worked fine removed my blue background and the presenter looks really clean etc.
The problem that I have is that I have noticed once it has been rendered is that I am getting the image turn red a couple of times during the footage just for a split second. It also only changes the area red that I used the pen and rotobezier tool to mark round the image before I keyed it.
I know that the description of what is going wrong for me isn't the best, but if anyone has had anything similar or knows what I'm talking about then I could really so with some help to stop it from happening.
Cheers
Matt

Have you downloaded the Keylight updates from The Foundry wensite? There were a few bugs in the plugin that only got fixed after CS3 was released. You may also wish to pre-compose your masked layer to avoid the flickering. If this changes the result too much (as Keylight will respond to the missing areas that affect its formula), add a blue solid in the pre-comp thast matches the average key color.
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When I switched to the HD comp at the same position everything was fine.
I "solved" the problem by flushing the cache, twice. Because after the first purge I was only able to render the first clip. The second one had the red frame problematic again.
Maybe It has something to do with hardware accelerated layers.
I'm using a MacPro running OSX 10.8.5 with a Nvidia GTX680.
Cheers
Michael

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