How do I change the slide length in Storyline

Hi Daniel, 

There isn't a method to change the overall slide duration outside of dragging the timeline back to the left to shorten it (right to lengthen it) and I don't have any information to share about it's position on a feature roadmap. 

When you add media elements to the timeline, the length of your timeline is automatically increased to match that and even if you remove or modify that media element it won't impact the timeline. 

The solution shared is something that was found by another user here in the E-Learning Heroes community and our team does share it as solution, but some of the earlier discussion here focused on other elements of slide navigation and timing, so that may have gotten lost on our part.