MacOS – Unable to flip a clip horizontally in iMovie 10.1.6

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I'm running iMovie 10.1.6 on MacOS Sierra 10.12.6 on a brand new, 2017 MacBook Air.

I have a clip which I want to flip/invert horizontally so that writing which currently appears with writing in reverse, so it is unreadable.

I've read up a lot online and everything I find says I should select the clip, click on the icon above the clip preview which is like 3 overlapping circles and then select Video Effect and choose Flipped.

However, when I click on the 3 circles icon, there is no Video Effects option shown, only Clip Filter and Audio Effect, so I don't know how to get this done.

I'm tearing my hair out at this and would really appreciate some help from anyone who can solve my problem. I know I don't have much rep here – I wish I could put a big bounty on this question because it's driving me nuts!

Best Answer

If I understand your question correctly, you can do what you want as follows:

  1. Select the clip
  2. Click on the icon you called the 3 overlapping circles
  3. Click on the Clip Filter option
  4. In the Choose Clip Filter window that appears, select the Flipped filter
  5. This will now film your clip horizontally

I've created a visual diagram of steps 2 - 4 below:

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