For me, Photostory is currently a torture when it comes to display length because the "view duration" is actually not the view but clip duration.

You you please split the "View duration" into "View duration" (the duration between the effects) and "Clip duration" (the duration including the effects, which is currently called "view duratrion")

Currently, if you want constant "real" view duration, one has to go through all clips check the two transition effects durations add them them to the desired view time and set the duration to this value. This needs to be done clip by clip if you do not use constant transitions times.

With my suggestion it would be easy to accommodate both use cases of cutting with net or gross view times.

In addition, clips should remember if they has been set a "view" or "clip" time. This would allow the clip to maintain its desired (by the user) length (either "view" or "clip") even if effect lengths get changed. In case of clip length the behavior would be just like in the current version, while with view length the internal clip length would be adjusted to keep the view duration constant.

In addition a setting option could allow to specify if the storyboard should show "clip" or "view" duration, or both.

Additionally clips with view duration could be marked with an "eye" icon in both storyboard and timeline mode to show this fact to the user.

To simplify development and usage a change of an effect duartion in timeline mode should update any "view duration" clip involved only after the change (not dynamically during editing).

This would dramatically simplify the workflow and increase productivity with a rather low investment on development.