FCE: Transitions adding time to clips?

I am a relatively new Final Cut Express user, and I noticed something tonight that doesn't make much sense to me.

I am trying to cut together some scenes to music that is 120 beats per minute, so to get the timing right, I cut all my clips into two second batches. This way, the clip changed on the 1 beat.

All was going fine until I decided to add cross dissolves to smooth out my clip transitions. I am using a 16 frame cross dissolve. However, the first time I put all my clips together with the dissolves, my timing was thrown all off. I noticed that the dissolved were adding 16 frames to each of my clips (im assuming to accommodate the dissolve). However, this is throwing my music timing off.

Is there a way I can add transitions to my time line without having Final Cut add length to my clips? I know I could fake it by taking 16 frame out of each clip, but that seems like a screwy way to do it.

Thanks,


Edit:
I figured it out. On my time line, the original locations of my edits were still there. When I added the transition, it appeared my clips gained frames in the View window, but in fact, those frames were overlapping the adjacent clips.
--C. Alan
C. Alan