Still Photo Issue

I wanted to freeze frame the very last shot of my film. I used QT conversion to make a still image (PNG) and added that to the tail of the closing clip. I used the desaturate to make the closing shot like one of my opening shots. The still looks fine on the Mac cinema displays and also on my production monitor. When I run the clip and it gets to that last still - the still doesn't look the same as when I have the playhead over it and the clip in not running. It seems to have a very slight red cast to it and it looks the same on the production monitor - so it's not the Apple displays. I've sent the still to Photoshop and used desaturate and get the same 'value shift'. I tried 'make greyscale' in Photoshop and still get the same 'value shift'. While it's not glaring - it is slightly annoying in that it doesn't match the opening shots. Any idea what might be causing the shift?
Thanks,

Hi -
The first thing I would try is:
Remove the PNG still
Place the playhead on the frame you want to freeze
Go to the menu Modify > Make Freeze Frame
Edit the freeze frame that is now in the viewer in place of where your PNG was
Drag the filter(s) that were applied to your opening clip to the new freeze frame - if there is flicker in your freeze frame you will also need to apply the de-interlace filter as well
See if that matches better
Hope this helps

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