You would achieve that by keyframing the rotation. Select the clip on your timeline and then click on keyframe/clip attributes. Find the rotation option. There is a scrubber in the keyframe window which you can use to move to different parts of your clip. With the scrubber set at the start of the clip, click on the little diamond to create a keyframe. Now drag the scrubber to the end of the clip and then click the diamond again. You should now see 2 keyframes both with 0 degrees rotation. Drag the scrubber to the middle of your clip and either rotate your clip using the circle visible in the preview window (I find this the easiest way) or enter the degrees in the box just to the right of the word "Rotation" and then click the little diamond again.

Keyframing works really well once you get your head around it but if you are like me you will struggle with it at first .

p.s. - think of the first keyframe setting as an absolute reference point so:-
First Keyframe - 0 degrees Centre Keyframe - 360 degrees Last Keyframe - 0 degrees = Rotate Clockwise & return anti-clockwise.
First Keyframe - 0 degrees Centre Keyframe - 360 degrees Last Keyframe - 720 degrees = Rotate Clockwise both halves.

Adding to what Longedge showed
You can accelerate or slow down the movement by
In the Ease In and Ease out controls, see the image also this tutorial
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Adding to what Longedge showed
You can accelerate or slow down the movement by
In the Ease In and Ease out controls, see the image also this tutorial

https://directorzone.cyberlink.com/tutorial/pdr?AP=PDR&Version=16&versionType=Ultimate&utm_source=pdr&utm_medium=16&utm_campaign=Tutorial&code=117[/quotePostId

@Longedge
Thank you!! That worked great! It took me awhile to figure it out, but one issue I had after following your instructions was that it started spinning like crazy between keyframes. I didn't want to set it to 90 degrees because then it flipped on its head, so I kept trying 270 and for some reason couldn't stop the spinning.

I realized though that you can set negative degrees and the "crazy spinning" was just it rotating 3/4ths of the way really fast (the clip is short).

So I set it to negative 90 degrees and got the shot I wanted.

@AVPlayVideo
I watched the video and didn't really understand how to apply the Ease in and out to this case, but I do see it as an option above the rotation keyframes, so I think I"ll just need to play with that some more but that would be for another threat Thanks for the advance tutorial

Hi KingSteven -

In PDR14, those Ease in/out options only apply to Position. PDR15 introduced the same thing to Rotation as well... which perfectly matches your original question because that's what it does. Rotation can begin & end gradually.

Understandable that AVPlayVideo would have thought of that.

Cheers - Tony
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