Turn the picture. Keep the story readable.

Choose the layer you want to turn.

1. Select the scene and add background footage, a background image, or a silent video inset from your workspace.
2. For a background, use Footage rotation or Image rotation. For an inset, open Picture in picture and use Inset orientation and focus.
3. Choose 90°, 180° or 270° clockwise. Original orientation leaves the picture unturned.
4. Choose the horizontal mirror or vertical flip when needed. Inset controls are named Mirror inset left to right and Flip inset top to bottom. Rotation happens before mirroring.
5. Check fit and focus in the preview, save a version, export, then watch the completed file.

Turning a background does not turn an inset with it. Each layer has its own settings. Footage and insets use quarter-turn orientation. Still backgrounds also offer the fine angle control below. Automatic face tracking is not provided.

Fine rotation for a still background.

After choosing your private background image, enter a Fine image rotation from −45° to 45° in 0.1° steps, then choose Apply image angle. A positive angle turns clockwise. The applied preview changes only the background picture; wording, timed captions and graphics stay upright.

Fit, focus, quarter-turn orientation and mirroring happen first. Fine rotation then turns that framed picture around the scene center and clips it to the video. Exposed corners show your scene background color. This does not expand the original image, detect a horizon or rotate background footage or an inset by a fine angle.

Apply or discard a local angle draft before saving. If the scene changes while you enter an angle, discard the draft and enter it again. Undo restores an applied edit; Restore 0° image angle resets fine rotation. It can also combine with slow image movement; inspect the beginning, middle and end of the completed export.

Fit and focus follow the final picture.

Contain shows the whole picture. Spare space uses the scene background for background footage, or black margins for an inset. Cover fills the destination and crops the excess. A landscape clip turned 90° becomes portrait footage, so the visible crop or margins can change substantially.

Horizontal and vertical focus refer to the picture after rotation and flipping. Left keeps the final left edge when cropping; Right keeps the right edge. An axis with no cropped edge or spare space will look the same across its focus choices.

For example, when a portrait demonstration is contained in a square inset, Right puts the footage at the box's right side and leaves spare space on the left. Switching to Cover fills the square and may remove part of the top or bottom. Review the important action and qualifications before choosing.

Mirroring can reverse visible writing, labels and product markings inside your footage. Check those details in the original and exported file. Separate scene text and captions remain upright, but the app cannot correct writing recorded inside a clip.

Keep source time separate from orientation.

Rotation, flipping and focus keep the selected source start and playback window. They do not change the clip speed, repeat the clip or enable its recorded audio. Background and inset footage stay silent; add a separate primary recording when you need sound.

An inset stays clipped inside its existing box. Position and size, scene appearance time and source start are separate controls. Keep the box away from essential wording, important background action and captions; orientation does not choose a safe layout automatically.

The original file is reused across versions. Undo restores an edit; Restore inset framing resets inset orientation and focus while keeping its fit, box and timing. Restoring framing also lets a saved inset use its original settings if the advanced controls are temporarily unavailable.

Review a saved export.

Use private H.264 MP4 footage up to 6 MB, two minutes, 1080p and 60 fps as input. The saved MP4 exports at 30 fps. Compositions with insets use up to 12 scenes and 60 seconds at 720p, or 30 seconds at 1080p, with 12 MB of unique private source media. Rotation does not expand those limits or restore missing detail.

Check the first visible moment, the last visible moment, cropped edges, mirrored writing, inset margins and soundtrack. Compare the completed file with your preview before a review decision or sharing. See saved-version comparison to inspect exactly which source and framing settings changed.