Two years since my original post, I found the following "solution", but I don't remember where I found it. I use it to identify the names of all of our players to orient the board with our club member's name at the bottom. Fora game between two of our players, it seems to consistently show white at the bottom. SCID vs. PC can rotate the board for you automatically, each time you load one of your own games. All you have to do is let the program know what your name is, as it appears in your database...
On chesstempo.com I found a pgn field called Flip board that doesn't seem to work...
alt-PrtScn will save a screen image to memory, from which you can paste into paint.net...
I am a volunteer academic chess coach who would like to use SCID vs PC in a classroom...
I presume that no response means, " No Way!"
OPen pgn files with the board flipped to black players orientation.