Rotate PART of a 5 minute clip

greetings,
I have a movie clip not quite 5 minutes long.It is a MVI.AVI format of a band.As I recorded this band,during 1 song I turned the camera to get full shot of guitar player.It plays back at that part needing to be rotated (NOT ENTIRE CLIP) about a 2 minute section needs to be rotated.According to help in iMOVIE,if you rotate ANY of the clip,the whole clip gets rotated,I ONLY NEED A PART ROTATED
NOT THE WHOLE CLIP.How do I rotate THE PART ONLY that needs rotated.The rest of the short clip is normal.Thanks in advance for your help.
Message was edited by: tommy gunn

Hi
Yes I had a problem with this in iM'08 and only solved it by making a double Capture
a. I cut out the piece that needed to rotate and put it into project and rotated it
and to my supprice the clip in Events was rotated in full too.
b. By making two Imports/Captures I could rotate oner and keep the other as is.
∆ At last I gave up - I wanted the actual rotation to be in horizon too - only way I could figure
was to do this in FinalCut Where I could rotate bit-vice and by use of many key-frames
get it to look as I wanted it to.
Yours Bengt W

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