Missing Free Transform in Motion

This is a bit difficult to explain but, in Motion I've imported a picture I wish to crop and use for motion tracking. The picture should have, when I import it, circles on the four corners that allow me to free transform the picture. But, for some reason these circles never show up, even when I use stock content that came with Motion. If this is difficult to understand, but you can help, I can send you a screen shot of what I'm talking about. I really need anyone's help with this, I can still transform objects with the inspector but this is extremely time consuming.
Message was edited by: FranzyPants

click on the layer you want to transform then hold down shift and hit S.... this is the shortcut to select the transform tool...

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