Calibrate viewer and timeline

The frame seen in the viewer does not match the frame where the playhead is on the timeline. I searched the manual for calibration and don't see it ...
On my system, the two windows are off by a fair number of frames. It makes it irritating when trying to set a transition. Especially when the next scene is not wanted in the transition. In earlier versions of FCP, I'd make a freeze frame to give enough frames for the fade-in or -out of a transition ...
this is driving me crazy! Surely when the timline is set all the way to single frame zoom, the viewer window should show the same frame.

So, I should trim the selection as I see the frames in the timeline? and then add the freeze frame to provide transition handles?
When I tried to control the transition yesterday (simple fade in-fade out), I could not control exactly where the center point (end of outgoing clip/beginning of incoming clip) and that viewer window was always showing it with other media in there.
Today I saw a question along the lines of my question and it seemed that he found it was the QT movie fps that was making the problem. --that the "break" between scenes does not occur at that gop group point (if I have my understanding in place) ... If that is true, perhaps I can insert the freeze frame so that my selection breaks at the proper frame point.
I saw the subclip suggestion after I had posted my query ... maybe it was for prior versions, I don't remember. It came up in the little side menu of suggestions of similar questions.

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