How to Play a Clip Backwards in Adobe Premiere Pro

Adobe Premiere opens up a lot of possibilities when you are creating and editing videos. There are a lot of tricks and tips that you can use and implement within your videos and one of these is playing your clip backwards. This can create a cool illusion for the viewer and add a lot to your video.

Instructions

1. Open the Adobe Premiere program.

2. Create a new file. You can open an existing file, but for the purposes of this artcile it is easier to just create a new file.

3. Name the file something you will remember or something obvious like “Reverse Clip Test.” Keep the default settings and click "OK."

4. The first thing you will need to do is import a clip. Right click on the Project window and click the option that says “Import…”.

5. Choose one or multiple video files that you want to reverse and click "OK."

6. When the files are loaded, wait for them all to conform. You can see that status by looking in the bottom right-hand corner of the program. If a loading bar is not moving, then they all have been conformed.

7. Drag the clip that you want to reverse into the Video 1 slot of the timeline.

8. You might not want to reverse the whole clip so trim off the parts that you do not want to reverse by going to the border of the clip and dragging to the desired start and finish time of the clip.

9. Right click on the clip and click on the open that says “Speed/Duration”.

10. A new option box will pop up that lists the percentage of the speed, the duration and then an option that says “Reverse Clip Speed”.

11. Click on the box that says “Reverse Clip Speed” and then click “OK.”

12. Your clip will now be reverse but to see what the clip actually looks like, press "Enter" on your keyboard.

13. A box will pop up showing you the rendering status for the preview.

14. Once the preview has been done rendering, your clip will now play backwards.

15. If you do not like the reversed clip, you can change it back by right clicking on the clip and repeating the same process.