Simple Rotate 2.0 review

Simple Rotate is an iMovie plug-in that rotates any part of your clip - or your whole clip (it is a combination of rotation and crop).

License: Shareware OS: Mac OS X File size: 1288K Developer: cf/x Buy Now Price: $1.00 Updated: 20 Oct 2005

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Simple Rotate is an iMovie plug-in that rotates any part of your clip - or your whole clip (it is a combination of rotation and crop). You can set start and end rotation, and the plug will animate the frames in-between.

Use this plug whenever you need some non-trivial rotation effects for your clip.

Here are some key features of "Simple Rotate":
area of effect
everything inside this rectangle will be rotated and shown in the result. anything outside this area will be set to the background color. to resize the rectangle, click and drag into the handles. to move it, click and drag inside the rectangle.

outside:
if this box is checked, the clip is cropped to the contents of the active area. everything that is not originally inside the active area will be set to the background color.

clip:
the turned image can be clipped to the active area box. it will be clipped when this box is checked.

select all
clicking this button will select the whole surface of the clip. in the context of this plug this will mean that the whole clip will be rotated.

opacity
everything outside the 'area of effect' will be set to this color.

start
this is the initial rotation of the clip when the animation begins. the plug will render all required rotations between this and end rotation over the length of the clip. full left means no rotation, full right means 360 degrees. if start is smaller than end the rotation will occur clockwise, else counterclockwise.

end
this is the rotation of the clip when the animation end. the plug will render all required rotations between start and this rotation over the length of the clip. full left means no rotation, full right means 360 degrees. if start is smaller than end the rotation will occur clockwise, else counterclockwise.

sync start / end
when this checkbox is set, start and end values will be exactly the same

background color
everything outside the 'area of effect' will be set to this color.

Requirements:
iMovie 3.0 or later.