Selection Tool becomes white and flickers (or flashes)...

...when I'm playing a clip in the Viewer. There's a tiny icon that appears and flashes briefly, too, above and to the left of the arrow. What does this mean?
This "clip" is actually a 35-minute video of my movement program (professionally produced with dissolves) that I will be editing with Final Cut Express. The original digital tape video master was copied to a DVD-R master; I copied the DVD file onto my hard drive and converted it to DV with DVDxDV.
Thanks for letting me know what, if anything, I should know regarding this flashing selection tool before proceeding with the edit!

I don't understand exactly what you mean.
If you play a clip in the Viewer the cursor arrowhead turns from black to white and flickers rapidly.
Is that what you mean? I don't know it's significance - but it is normal behaviour.
Ian.

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