Duration of stills

Hi people!
I'm a COMPLETE beginner with premiere pro, the problem I'm having is changing the duration of stills.
I keep right clicking the still to change it's duration to 4.30 seconds, but then it just changes back to 5.05 seconds and I don't understand why.
I've googled it and people keep saying to change the duration of stills by changing it to the number of frames i want, but I don't know what they are talking about.
I want every clip to last a different amount of time, is there way of doing this?
Thank you
-someone who is at the verge of breaking their laptop.

That depends how many frames per second you're working with. In the UK, we're 25 fps, In the US it is usually 30 fps (29.97).
So, in the UK, 125 frames = 5 seconds. In the US = 4 seconds and 5 frames (5 frames = 1/6th second in the US). So...
4 and a half seconds: UK = 112 frames. US = 135 frames
HOWEVER, changing the default duration of stills in Preferences ONLY alters still that you will import. It does NOT change the duration of stills already imported.
To change the duration of stills already imported, right click on the still - either in the Timeline or Project Panel - and change the "Duration/Speed" setting.

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