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Reverse Video
Make water flow upward and jumps land backwards. Optional reversed audio for the full effect.
Drop your video here
MP4, WebM, MOV, MKV — short clips work best (see why below)
drop works anywhere on this page
Play any video backwards
Reversal is one of those effects that's trivially easy here and bafflingly gated behind paywalls elsewhere. Drop a clip, choose whether the audio reverses with it, click once. The whole thing renders in your browser — no upload, no watermark.
A note on memory
Reversing is the one operation that can't stream: every decoded frame must be held until the last one arrives, because the last frame out is the first frame in. That's fine for clips up to a few minutes on a modern device, but a feature-length file would exhaust memory on any in-browser tool. The fix is easy — trim to the moment you want first, then reverse the short clip. (We warn you on long files rather than blocking.)
Reverse-video ideas that actually land
- Physics tricks — pour water "up", un-shatter something, un-eat a sandwich.
- Skate / parkour edits — landings become takeoffs with impossible grace.
- Boomerang-style loops — pair with the loop tool's boomerang mode for forward-then-back seamless loops.
- Reveal intros — film yourself covering a whiteboard, reverse it, and the drawing "draws itself".
FAQ
Why is there a length warning for reversing?
Every decoded frame must be held in memory before writing in reverse order. A few minutes is fine; trim longer videos first.
Should I reverse the audio too?
For motion effects, yes — it sells the illusion. Where speech matters, uncheck it (audio is dropped).
Does reversing lose quality?
One high-quality re-encode (H.264 CRF 21) — visually indistinguishable for almost all content.
Is my video uploaded to reverse it?
No — it all happens in your browser. The clip never leaves your device.