Sending to Final Cut Pro

Hello,
I am currently running Color on a MacBook Pro, and it works perfectly fine, until I finish rendering all of my files in Color and send them to Final Cut. After I do this, when the sequence appears in Final Cut, it is simply a black screen and the timeline is empty.
Can anyone help?
Thanks.

The way this is supposed to work:
On opening a new COLOR project, depending on your work habits, you can set up all your target directories and grade, or vice versa... no harm done.
Upon setting up the render, however, the target directory and format must be defined prior to loading the RenderQueue. If this procedure is not followed, the application will be committed to sending the media in the default format to the default directory, even if those settings are changed after the RenderQueue has been loaded, but not executed. Upon completion of the render, without further intervention, a Send To FCP will result in an XML export that will not have the correct media path or format settings.
Correcting this situation is not straightforward, and perhaps the easiest method, if the time and storage demands are not too great is to search for and destroy the rendered media, return XML and the (from COLOR) sequences now imbedded in FCP. If you do not, there is a chance that FCP will still go back to, or won't update these incorrect instances and the impression will be that nothing is happening.
The roundtrip is designed to be executed once and once only. "Re-sends" only confuse the issue more. The only way to get a "re-send" to work is to call it something else so that a completely new sequence results, and its essentially a new, unique "Send".
Its a little bit of a confused chess game where you cannot take a move back, but trying to fix a mistake usually results in a whole new and more confused situation.
Alternatively, or conversely, there might be a new, totally random element like something illegal in the sequence that corrupted the COLOR sequence (but didn't cripple it) but still causes FCP to go looking fore something that doesn't exist, or is misplaced and on import gets confused and then finally just quits and vomits something for you to be puzzled about.
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