Problems setting still photo duration??

How do you REALLY change and fit the transition and clip duration to what you want it to be? I have tried everything and researched it long enough.This has been a long-time problem with a lot of users - I'm surprised and disappointed Apple hasn't helped anyone through this by giving a solution THAT WORKS.
The last thing I tried was...
delete all transitions
set the still photo duration to what I want it to be (3.0sec)
add transitions back
But when I add them the still photo duration jumps to 4.0sec?? When I then go back and click on the photo to change duration for all photos, the time increases by 1.0 sec every time I adjust it back to my original 3.0 input. Right now it is at 8.0 sec???!!
Can someone help me with the steps to do this? I really don't want to start all over, I'd rather input photo settings for each picture then find the pictures again to add to my project.
*Yes I realize that the project settings (command+J) probably need to correspond - that is what makes sense to me, at least *

Wait!
I think I figured it out - If anyone has this problem, go to preferences and "unclick" - ADD AUTOMATIC TRANSITION DURATION in Browser catagory at the bottom. Then hit command+J to go to project properties and know that PHOTO DURATION + TRANSITION DURATION = the number of seconds you see when you click on your still photo.
Hopefully that helps someone out there.

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