How can I change the duration of stills on Final Cut Pro X?

Hello everyone.
I need to change the duration of stills and I'm having a hard time doing that. I'm not interested in changing the default setting. The stills need different times, so I need to be able to manually alter the duration of each clip. Does anyone know how to do this?
Thank you!

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