Subclip Problem

I'm having an issue with subclips. Let me explain my workflow and see if I went wrong anywhere. I have hundreds of audio and video clips in a project and I dragged them all to the timeline, lined them up, then merged the clips. I then one by one dragged the merged clips back to the timeline, used the blade tool to slice them up, then right clicked and created subclips from those segments. Once I had all my subclips created and reorganized into a separate folder, I dragged the subclips back to the timeline to start building my story, but the in points of all my subclips are reset to the in point of the original parent clip that I pulled them from. The duration is still the same, the Project Panel and Source Panel all show that the clip's in point is correct, but for some reason dragging the clips to the timeline resets the in point to the parent clip's in point. Is there a way to fix this?

Umm... you say 'the master clip is listed as 48hz'...?
I think you mean 48Khz... which is pretty much the same as 48001.1Hz give or take 1.1 of a Hertz...
Check to see if your clip plays the audio in sync when in FCP... It might be that the camera recorded the audio 32Khz, and you've not adjusted the capture settings accordingly....

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