Rotating a video in imovie

I've just opened the new imovie and uploaded a few videos to work on. I can't rotate the videos like I used to be able to before. If I select the video, go to adustments you are supposed to be able to go to the crop function and rotate from there, but the crop function is greyed out and not available. Only way I can rotate the videos is to upload a clip into a new project and then rotate works fine in there. Only thing is I don't want to have to select a few seconds of video to add to my movie then rotate, select the next few seconds, then rotate etc. Why can't I rotate the whole import?

This is crazy! I started a video on my 5s in portrait and then moved to landscape and it did not adjust, so most of the video is sidways and I can't get I move to correct this.

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Well, it seems I have no choice. I already tried the export from iMovie to desktop, then back to Aperture and it worked fine. It is just not very convenient. (I use small video clips of golf swings, so I have sometimes to rotate 20 or mode videos).
To answer to Kirby, I tried also to make some minor changes instead of just rotating the video. Didn't work anyway.
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Rotate a clip
Take care,
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to no: 2
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