Sending footage from Color to Final Cut problem

Hello guys,
I am shooting 7D video so I transcode everything to Apple Prores (progressive).
Then.. I edit in FCP and send it to Color. When I finish coloring I send to FCP again, and then I export my timeline to a quicktime video. MY HUGE problem is that whenever I color correct my footage in Color..using the workflow I just described, the final quicktime file becomes interlaced!!!! If I avoid doing color correction in Color I dont get this problem.
Any ideas???
Thank you very much.

Could you 2x your sequence settings in FCP? Make sure it's a prores progressive at the start of this process.
Also, you're just exporting a QT 'full' (or reference) - not a QT conversion, right?

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