Workaround for crop tools in Premiere Pro 25.0.0 tied to rotation in Effects Controls panel

Hi all,

I wanted to share a workaround.  Per the 'Effects Control' panel, Rotation is rendered before the crop tools so when I rotate to adjust a scene the crop tools render with respect to the rotation:  See screen print:

So if you rotate and want to add a letterbox it will be crooked.  I fixed this by using black video clips stacked over the main clip as a letterbox and used the crop tools on them; one for the top and one for the bottom.  This way the crop tools aren't related the main clip and its rotation:  See next screen print:

 I'm sure there are more elegant ways of doing this and/or I'm probably missing something obvious but it worked for me.  Just wanted to share this.  Thanks.