Screw all these other ways of doing all this..lol
All I do is select wherever I start the split at the begining of the movie and then select the cut spot, then let it go. Then
don't close that window, then copy that exact time frame spot where you cut it at (example: 47:08:03) then paste that into the begin spot of the second cut and then selct the end time frame where I want to cut it at or select the very end of movie (if that's the case) and then go with it. And that will make a
perfect cut. It won't even skip a beat.
I have yet had a problem with this method.