You can rotate the clip by grabbing the blue circle in the preview window. A more accurate way is to highlight the clip on the time line and click the 'Modify' button. Click on the middle tab. Click on the motion path with the green X. You can now enter the number of degrees that you want the clip to rotate. You will have to do this at the beginning and end of the clip or it will rotate as it plays. __________________________________
CORNBLOSSOM

By the way, the fact that the posts are not straight up and down does not mean you were not level. It all depends on the angle at which you were pointing at the posts. Although looking at your picture, I would say that is your problem. __________________________________
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Hal & Jaime -

I hope my poor old memory is serving me well today...

I think it may have been during Beta testing (I can't find it using search) that Adrian "discovered" this...



BUT:
- it may have been someone equally clever
- it may have been a completely different discovery
- it may be that I'm... well - not completely correct.

Cheers - Tony
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Hal -

Using the method described above, I was able to straighten your image.

Pretty good eyes, Xerox!

Cheers - Tony
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That's a good one. Looks like you can do the same on the main preview window by turning off snap to reference. If there is a PIP applied to a clip, then snapping occurs on the main preview window even if you turn the snapping off on the main preview window.

Gentlemen,

Just getting going here, was up late last night working on some of the footage. Thank you so much for the replies.

With your assistance I was able to straighten out the footage. Using Tony's (Adrian's) method and many keyframes I could set the rotation and zoom (to get rid of the corners) at various points throughout the clip. This allowed me to use footage that was panned from where I was level to where I only thought I was level.

On some clips it will require a fair number of keyframes and adjustment but the result is going to be worth the effort.

I will have to make sure the tripod is in use at all time during game action shots from now on.

Thanks again to all, you have made my day.

Hal
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