Rotate video in iMovie HD

I just recently upgraded my old macbook and I use to use the older version of iMovie no problem, but now I am trying to learn the new ways in iMovie HD. I am adding pictures to my timeline and I added a video but I can't figure out how to rotate it. I tried downloading the turn clip but had no luck. HELP PLEASE

This is in iMovie 6?
MPEG Streamclip can rotate video while maintaining the aspect ratio as well as the interlacing when converting to DV, which is what iMovie prefers as an input:
http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/video/mpegstreamclip.html
There is also a plug-in for iMovie 6 from GeeThree called rotate/scale that might do the job:
http://geethree.com/slick/index.html
Further useful information here:
http://www.sjoki.uta.fi/~shmhav/SVCD_on_a_Macintosh.html#vert-horiz_rotate
http://www.sjoki.uta.fi/~shmhav/SVCD_on_a_Macintosh.html#43-169

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