Scoured the forum and found lots of information to help with my problem. Thanks for all the contributors.
I figured out how to do cross-fade transition - maybe a bit clunky, but no complaints, it works fine… almost.
When clip 2 is dragged over clip one, the time indicator runs from 00:00:00 to 00:00:24 and then up to 00:01:00 (on the Win 11 system) - on the Win 10 system it runs up to 00:00:29 and then up to 00:01:00.
I’ve attached a small video, you can see it at about 11 seconds.
This is not actually a problem, but wanted to ensure there wasn’t some calculation that may create an accumulative error or even another function. Thanks for all your hard work!!
Running 2 systems, Win 10 on one, Win 11 on the other.
Running Shotcut 23.06.14 on both