Unable to flip a clip horizontally in iMovie 10.1.6

Solution 1:

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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