If you are editing properly, like the professionals, this problem never occurs.
Professional editors never (or almost never), use the complete clip, and amateurs should be the same.
We take such care to shoot good video and we are so pleased with most of it, that we can't bring ourselves to discard even the tiniest bit.
This results in our movies becoming long and slow moving and boring . . . . at least to everyone else who is unfortunate enough to have to watch them!
We, of course, regard them as the best things since sliced bread.
So generally speaking, every clip should be drastically pruned to a maximum of 5 to 10 seconds.
Many clips could be cut down to a couple of seconds.
If you watch a professional feature film you will find that many clips are only 2 - 3 seconds and some are actually under a second.
This gives them pace and life.
Under these circumstances, the editors always have clips with plenty of handles, but here's the irony, professional feature films hardly ever employ transitions!