Inconsistent cross dissolves in FCE 3

hello
I'm editing a sequence with black slugs of about 4 secs between each short section of video (about 1 min sections). I'm doing this by right clicking on the edit and adding a cross dissolve. On some edits the cross dissolve is really short, while on others its a decent length. It doesn't seem to make any difference how long the adjoining clips are, and I can't edit the dissolve length in the editor. Is there something obvious I'm doing wrong here?!

I don't know whether you understand about the "handles" Piero mentioned?
To put it simply, you can't add a transition between 2 COMPLETE clips. You need to have cut off at least a second from the end of each clip where it "touches" the transition.
For a more detailed explanation read this article carefully:-
http://www.fcpbook.com/Effects1.html

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