White triangles on top corners

I understand your point Neil but if you strip out the emotion, he has a point.  I work at a smallish company now, so when we need video, I get to do it even though I haven't edited video in 15 years and never did it as a full-time gig.  The same thing is happeneing to me with Animate.  I was pretty good at AS3 but now have to learn javascript.  I made the grave sin of calling it java in a question and the "expert's" response ignored the meat of the question and said something to the effect of, "you don't need to learn java."

Sometimes when questions are asked and people respond with one-word or two word answers without context, the person posing the question gets nothing but frustrated while all of the folks who KNOW how it works, say "How concise!"

That doesn't mean I don't appreciate honest effort, it's just that some of the respondents' terse answers can sometimes be interpreted as snark when you're starting from a position of ignorance (as I am anytime I come here).

I opened this post because I'm trying to add a freeze frame at the end of a clip.  When I do it using the frame hold option, I get the little triangle at the top right of the clip so I can't apply a transition effect.  This make zero sense to me.  A freeze frame has no "end."  I should be able to drag it for hours and then be able to apply a transition at the end.

Of course, somebody will say that's the way it is, or has always been, or some other profound insight that doesn't address the question.  So it appears the only way to create a freeze frame and then create a transition is to snapshot the last frame, save it, and then place it in the time line.  You are then free to transisiton to your hearts content.  It certainly would be nice if the designers could provide a less cumbersome method.

You seem like a good guy.  As you can tell I get a little wordy too.  How about helping out a newbie and suggesting places where I might go to become better at this?

Thanks for your post Neil!