Working with AVI: Adding transitions

I have a dozen AVIs from my Canon camera that I would like to edit together in FCE. I can import and view them fine on the timeline. But the program will not allow me to add transitions in between the individual clips. However, I can add transitions within the same clip. It just does not work when I want to put transitions between separate clips.
I have tried converting these clips to DV, MPEGS, QUICKTIMES before importing and it does not resolve the problem.
Any suggestions?
M

To add transitions between clips they must have "handles", that is, additional hidden media after the first clip end point and before the second clip start point. To do that you must move the IN and OUT points of each clip before adding transitions.
I suggest you to convert your clips to .mov (with DV-PAL or DV-NTSC codec, and audio stereo uncompressed PCM 48 kHz) before importing to FCE. You can use MPEG Streamclip (free) to do that. This doesn't add handles... but it avoids preliminary FCE rendering.
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