Gaps mysteriously appeared in compound clip

I wanted to combine 2 completed projects with some additional clips into a third project. I made a snapshot of each finished project, opened each snapshot, selected all of the clips in it, and then made it a compound clip. This allowed me to include the two completed movies as compound clips in the new project. A funny thing happened. One compound clip was just fine, but the 2nd compound clip had 1 frame gaps between each original clip. I don't know why it did that, it totally disrupted the timing of the edits. And I don't know why it did it to one snapshot and not the other. Any ideas?

I didn't particularly want a bazillion clips * 2 in my final combined timeline, I wanted 2 compound clips plus a few other miscellany clips.
But regardless of the reason, here are 2 images. First a section of the original timeline:
and what it looked like after I selected all, turned it into a new compound clip, then opened that compound clip:
As you can see, the gaps between the clips, aside from being unsightly, throw the timing off and make the audio horrible.
As I said, I have 2 projects I tried this with. As far as I can tell they are identical in structure (1080p) but of course have different content. This happens to one of them but not the other. I can't figure out what the missing variable is.

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