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Max_9815975
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July 15, 2026
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rotate source clip

  • July 15, 2026
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Set a rotation parameter (in 90deg steps) in one clip in a way that is applied before all other effects. Useful when the camera tagged the footage as vertical when its really horizontal and vice reversa.

Lightroom recognises this problem and offers a shortcut to change rotation.

Forums suggest a source clip transform effect. This is impractical for multiple reasons:

  • Slow workflow, fiddly when wrongly rotated files are mixed clockwise and counterclockwise. On top of copy paste the deg. number has to be changed between -90 and 90.
  • clips are not displayed correctly in source viewer
  • not working together with other features like fit / fill frame

I think two buttons in the source viewer, representing clockwise and anticlockwise rotation would be reasonable.

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    Inspiring
    July 15, 2026

    I second this!