The easiest way, with the clip in the time line, select the clip. In the preview window you will see a blue circle. Move you mouse over the edge of the circle and the mouse pointer will turn to a chasing arrow type look. Press the left mouse button and drag it around in the direction that you want to turn it. It should snap in place at 90°. __________________________________
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Thanks, Jaime-esque.

I was frustrated in not finding the blue circle, so I tried an update and there appeared the blue circle. I then dragged a sample video onto the viewer, and was able to rotate the sample. Great!

Then I dragged one of my own videos into the viewer, and NO blue circle. ?? What gives? I then tried dragging a sample video onto the viewer, and still no blue circle.

How do I get the Blue circle to appear at will?

BTW: What's the technique to remove a video from the work station? I can't find a command, so I've been closing out the program and re-loading it to work with another clip. There's got to be an easier way.

Hi freethink -

The blue circle will only appear in the preview screen when the clip is selected.



To remove media from your Media Library, just select and hit delete... or you can right click & choose the option you wish.




Cheers - Tony
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OK... so I figured out how to get the blue circle to appear: I drag the video onto the timeline, and then I can choose "clip", and the blue circle appears. But there remain two problems: I need to zoom out so the image fits in the new aspect ratio, and the rotated image does not appear on the timeline.

How do I zoom the image out? and how do I compel the image changes I make on the viewer to appear on the timeline?

Thanks, ynotfish, but I'm not done yet (see above).

Got the resizing: Click on the upside-down exclamation point, and the blue circle appears, within a resize box.

Now for the transposition of the image...

I'm not sure I follow what you're saying.

How do I zoom the image out? and how do I compel the image changes I make on the viewer to appear on the timeline?

Any change you make in the preview window (rotate, resize etc) will be present in the produced file... those things will not show in the timeline.

In the attached screen capture, I've used a mobile phone clip. It didn't need rotating but you'll get the idea. Is that what you mean by zooming in?

Cheers - Tony
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