Two Different Clip Colors on Timeline?

Sometimes my timelines end up with clips that are different colors, and I've never been able to figure out why. Anyone know?
These clips are from the same camera (Sony EX1r), shot just minutes apart. Imported at the same time from Media Browser into the project and then dropped to the timeline.
One's green, the other's aqua.

This is a bug that has been around since Media Browser (MB) was introduced in CS4. Sometimes this happens, sometimes it don't.
If you import the file from MB directly to the Project panel it works ok most of the time, sometimes it don't. However, if you double click the file in MB and thus open it in the Source and then drag the media to the Timeline it happens very often, ie that the clips come in with one color for the video and one color for the audio. I have never been able to reproduce it to 100%.
It has nothing to do with different kind of clips since the clips imported are A/V.
/Roger

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