Daily Help A Newbie Thread: Full MiniDV tape to FCP & add Transitions

Hello,
Yes, it's another one of those questions, but honestly, I've RTFM, and searched the discussions here. Nothing works as it's supposed to. (Must be me, right?) Well, I'm turning to the pros.
Goal: Take a full hour's worth of my newborn girl that's on MiniDV from a Canon ZR85 and get it into FCP, add some transitions, and then export to send to the Grandma's.
Problem: I can't seem to add transitions at all. The cursor changes to an arrow with a little 'x' in the lower right corner.
Problem Notes:
--Ok, so I can sorta add transitions, but not with two clips or subclips snapped to each other in the same video layer. It will allow say, a default cross fade to the end of one clip, while clip 2 is in another layer (V2). So the visual response is the same, but it should work with clips in the same layer.
--I can put playhead snapped to the joint between two unedited clips, and right click to add 'transition cross dissolve', but the transition ends up only being 1 frame in duration. And double-clicking on it to bring it into the viewer doesn't allow me to edit the duration.
--I can however, drop in a Bars and Tone generated object, and say a caustics object. Then I can add and edit the transition to my heart's content.
Method:
1. tape in, cam to play, cables set up
2. FCP set to Format: all formats / rate: all rates / Use: DV-NTSC
3. open capture dialog and (for simplicity's sake) use Capture Now
4. a 13+ GB .mov file is made on the scratch disk, an external FW drive with plenty of space
5. I then use the Mark > Detect DV start/stop to get the markers in clip
6. select all the markers, and use Make Subclip
7. All subclips show up as "segment of videoclip I just imported n" with the little clip icon with jagged edges.
8. Add a couple (of 41) subclips to the timeline. So far so good. They play and sound as expected.
9. But then I go for a simple transition, cross dissolve and try to drag it into the time line. All I get is the the arrow with the little x.
If I...
z. right click to add transition, it says "insufficient content for edit"
y. .....
****, I think I just answered my own question. Yeah...huh...RTFM...Ok, here goes, see if this is what you would tell me...
1. drop in say two subclips.
2. (they are now end to start, if you will
3. i have to drag the second clip (the one on the right) to the LEFT such that there is enough "overlap" so the transition covers enough on both clips for the desired duration....
That is clip 1 is 30 seconds. Clip 2 is 60 seconds. End to End won't work. But if I move clip 2 (with the select tool) back say 5 seconds. Then I can add a 10 second transition. (overkill yes, but it's an example.)
Sorry for rambling. Thanks for helping or offering um, constructive advice.
Thanks,
.curt
a) Even when I Log and Capture, it always gives me the pre-post roll error message. I have turned that preference to zero, but have the same results. But OK, I can deal with that, so I did the Capture Now and manually started the vidcam.
b)

You need "handles" for transitions.
The length of the transition determines the length of the handle
The default is one second so you need 15 extra frames on clip "A" and 15 extra frames on clip "B"
So you need to do what you've already learned and trim back your clips to make room for your transisitons.
This is the quick expanation, check the manual or do a search on this forum for "handles" and you can get a more in-depth version.

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