newbie question...

[psievers]

When I drag clips into the time line it starts the clip a few frames in and ends it a few frames from the end... What do I change to have it show the full clip start to finish when first placing it in the time line?

[Paul Lara]

for restoring the in/out points to the first/last frame of the clip, press the 'g' key on the highlighted clip.
If you wish to make this a global behavior, change the setting in the Preferences panel listed as Automatic In/Out Offsets to No Offset.

[Scott Bates]

In Preferences change Editing > Automatic In/Out Offset to "No Offset".

[SBowie]

In Preferences change Editing > Automatic In/Out Offset to "No Offset".

But before you do, you should probably consider the reason SE defaults to chopping 1 second off each end of a clip ... it's so that transitions don't take frames from the part of the video clip you actually want to see.

[Shabazzy]

But before you do, you should probably consider the reason SE defaults to chopping 1 second off each end of a clip ... it's so that transitions don't take frames from the part of the video clip you actually want to see.

An absolute godsend in storyboard mode.