How can I get a clip in a fixed position?

Dear people,
i have a question for you. I am making a video clip. In the clip I use a lot of short clips of 10 seconds
or less after one another. Transitions, effects, everything is working great. But how do fix a clip on the timeline.
Everytime I change the lenght of one of the short clips, all the other clips are moving out of their position.
I hope there is a solution, otherwise i have a huge problem. Heeelp!

Hi
Here You meet the border of Amateurism and Professionalism.
This can not be done (with any form of ease) in any version of iMovie.
BUT - this is a standard way of working in FinalCut up to version Express 4 or pro 7
(What can or can't be done in FCP-X still is a mystery to me)
So either - document every clip on a number of frame basis in iMovie up to HD6 and do this very carefully and tedious labor.
Or try to find a second hand version of any previous version of FinalCut.
iMovie'08 or 09 or 11 - I'm not sure that one can document each clip at frame exact notification. May be ?
And of course one can do this in QuickTime Pro - BUT then at a need of an even higher level of carefulness and skill.
Yours Bengt W

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