VIRB Edit 2.5.2 bug report: Can't flip two videos in a row

Moved since this got buried in the 2.5 release thread.

I was sure I'd replied to this somewhere already; I certainly wrote a post describing my research on this issue before. I can't find evidence of it actually getting posted, though. Sorry about that.

I've tried a lot of different scenarios to reproduce this, and can't. The only scenario where two video segments will both flip when flipping one of them is when they're actually based on the same clip from the clip library, which is generally what a user would want unless they flipped the camera over mid-recording without stopping in between. Is that what you've got going on here?

Otherwise, sharing tracks of any sort between separate recordings doesn't affect the video flip in any way I can reproduce in my testing.

The only scenario where two video segments will both flip when flipping one of them is when they're actually based on the same clip from the clip library, which is generally what a user would want unless they flipped the camera over mid-recording without stopping in between. Is that what you've got going on here?

That was exactly what happened: I had a pool video where the Virb was on a monopod and half the video was shot right side up, then the camera was flipped over and I continued shooting, assuming i could just split the video in VE and flip one part. Maybe I should have stopped the recording before flipping it in the pool?

I'd recommend stopping recording before flipping it. We don't want users to have to rotate the same clip multiple times just because they've split it up a bunch. I'm not sure how to support the scenario you describe here while satisfying that case.

You can work around your issue currently by splitting and exporting half of that video and reimporting it. I imagine that'll mess up your video time stamp and our automated track matching logic, but since you've got the first half of that video auto-aligned already, it should be relatively recoverable.

That particular video is not important. It's just good to know before I record something that really is valuable.

I'm not sure how to support the scenario you describe here while satisfying that case.

I think there is a simpler way and sure this is how iMovie works ...

Just rotate the clip I select on the video timeline ...

So if I add a video clip to the video timeline and select rotate it will rotate all that video clip that is currently on timeline (the original should still be intact). Now if I split / cut that video it all remains rotated on the timeline.

The other use-case is I add a video clip to the video timeline, I split and cut into multiple sections on the timeline. Now if I select rotate it only rotates the split/cut section of the clip I selected (once again leaving original and all other timeline clips in tact).