How to Edit Time Duration without messing up everything else that follows
I am trying to create a video of still pictures set to music In Premiere Element 13. I've made several of these but always deal with this same time consuming problem that probably takes up more time and trouble than ANYTHING else. I really like my images to transition with the music so I end up editing the duration of both the images and the transitions to get things to flow closely with the music.
The problem is that if I make a change in timing to an earlier image, everything else changes as well. Instead of everything that follows readjusting to the new timing, Premiere adds a break in the music and the images. When I try to move things over to re-attach to the piece I've just adjusted, the timing on everything else (that I've worked so hard to get right) changes as well. The duration of images gets longer and the transitions disappear. It is so INCREDIBLY frustrating. I'm surprised that the rest of my images and transitions don't just automatically scoot over. The lack of this function seems enormously archaic.
I'm hoping there's a setting I just don't know about that tells Premiere not to add a break. PLEASE HELP! This is making something that should be so simple, so frustrating. Basic movie editing programs like a Windows 2003 Moviemaker can handle this simple adjustment, I just don't understand why this step needs to be so complicated in Premier -- so I must be missing something. Thank you SO MUCH for your help! 
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