Re: Transition Questions...

You could put the end of the first track on top of the beginning of the second track and fade out the top track. This method is a different way of doing it, but it's not any easier. All it does is make you have to keep alternating video tracks, which can be a pain.

Either way, you need frames to dissolve out of and into. If the length of your clip is only long enough to put exactly where you want to begin or end in the timeline, where are you going to get the frames to dissolve out of a shot or into the next one? That's why Premiere makes freezes of either the beginning or end of the clip if you don't have enough to transition.

Whenever you digitize footage, you always want to grab at least a couple seconds more at the beginning and end than you think you'll use, and now you see why.