Can't rotate movie (crop tool shaded)

Just moved to iMovie 10 from an old version.
I don't seem to be able to rotate any of my movies. I can select the clip, go to Adjust, but from there the Crop tool is shaded so I can't rotate.
I can select all of the other icons (except the shaking camera). Wondering what I am missing...
This holds for both new and old events, held on my internal and external libraries.
Using OS 10.9.1 and iMovie 10.0.1
Thank you-

Which operating system are you using?
The Crop Tool shares the same tool slot in the toolbox with the Recompose Tool.
You should be able to Left click and hold on the toolbox icons to see the fly-out menus for the tools that share the same slots.
Tools in the toolbox that have other tools in the same slot have a little black arrow to the right of the tool icons.
One can also use Shift+C to switch between the Crop and Recompose Tools.

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Adobe fixed it partially in CS4; crop+rotate+downsample worked on a flat background layer, but still showed the unexpected results on any pixel layers. A very observant and dedicated CS5 pre-release tester (ahem... and handsome too, I might add) caught it in CS5 beta and all works well now. I think that had been around... jeeze, since PS6?

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I will try a second attempt for my wish to add a feature to the crop tool:
I like the cropping tool in lightroom, but there is one feature I miss:
Sometimes I have this situation:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/ellersiek/2633499034
Knowing, that in most situations the limiting cropping is ok, I wish to have an option to enlarge the resulting image like this way:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/ellersiek/2632678737
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Of cause, after enlarging by Lightroom, I have to do something with the new area/pixels by hand. By the way, I only wish new pixels in a, in the settings definable, color - no "intelligent" enlarging.
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I miss the enlarging also in other situations (like architectual or landscape photos). Sure I have to do some steps later by hand but I was able to the most steps in Lighroom in a single workflow with a single setting.
Greeting from Germany
Ralf
PS.: I'm not a native english speaker: What do you mean with "How is it supposed to make a judgement call about how to create the new pixels"?

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