Rotation of whole event

amethystina wrote on 10/28/2016, 6:36 AM

I am using Movie Studio Platinum 12 on Windows 7, and have identical set-ups on 2 comparable PCs.  For the last few years they have behaved the same but now one behaves differently in one area.

On the first, I can place the cursor anywhere and perform a 180 degree "event rotation" and the whole clip is rotated 180 degrees.  But on the second PC, if the cursor is at the end of the clip (where it is by default on loading)  it rotates the end to 180 degrees, but this decreases steadily to 0 at the start of the clip. If I place the cursor at the start, then the whole event is rotated 180 degrees correctly - but that means that I have to remeber to move the cursor, which I don't have to do on the first PC.

Can any one tell me why - and what I need to change to make the second PC work the same as the first (eveything looks identical). I have tried searching for an answer, but cannot find a comparable query and situation.

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vkmast wrote on 10/28/2016, 8:43 AM

See (pan/crop window bottom) if you have a keyframe at the end of the timeline and the Sync Cursor button is active.

Try if unsyncing cursor before Rotation helps. If not, delete the first keyframe, or better, move cursor to the beginning of the event and do the Rotation.

I occasionally need to reset MSP 12 to have it working as expected.

amethystina wrote on 10/28/2016, 11:07 AM

See (pan/crop window bottom) if you have a keyframe at the end of the timeline and the Sync Cursor button is active.

Try if unsyncing cursor before Rotation helps. If not, delete the first keyframe, or better, move cursor to the beginning of the event and do the Rotation.

I occasionally need to reset MSP 12 to have it working as expected.


I had the Sync Cursor button depressed.  Had never knowingly used it, so didn't notice it - and wouldn't have known what it did even if I had.  I don't use keyframes, but looking I see there is a default one at the beginning of a clip, so that was the cause.  This first keyframe seems to be a default, because it cannot be deleted (it is the only one

vkmast - you are brilliant, because I could have spent years and would never have found that out.

I am glad I didn't have to do a reset, because I have no real idea what all my setings are.  Since I am obviously talking to a genius here, is there any way of saving ALL my settings so If I need to do a reinstall, I can load back all my settings, not just the window layouts?  I haven't seen that option mentioned anywhere, but it would be very useful to someone like me.

Thanx for all your help so far,

vkmast wrote on 10/28/2016, 12:16 PM

A "reset" described in my link does reset the software to its factory default settings. A reinstall is not the same and pretty much keeps your settings. Backup is recommended anyway of course. Btw, I'm not a genius, a true genius may pick up from this.