Hello, this is Cristi. A quick tip for you, if you're working in Shotcut and you would
like to make a video play in reverse, to reverse a video file, this is very
easy. I'm going to show you right now. So I'm going to import a video into my project here,
and it's got an audio, it's got video, here we go. It's playing forward. The car is driving forward.
So how do I make this play in reverse? Very easy. Click on the video and then at the top here,
click on Properties to bring the properties, if you don't have it showing already.
And then you have a button here, Reverse. If you don't see this button here, maybe you have an
older version of Shotcut where this button used to be hidden behind this three line menu right here.
So you could find it here, or if not, it's Reverse,
it's here. And when you click that button with that clip selected,
you're going to have a choice of quality. This is an edit friendly, they say, format and click OK.
So if you intend to edit this video further and do other stuff with it, maybe choose Best or Better.
I'm going to leave it on better now. And as soon as you click OK, a job is created.
First, it's going to ask you where you want to save this reversed file.
So choose a folder on your hard drive, click Save, and you notice the file name includes a Reversed.
So there is a conversion going on and then the reverse operation in the jobs panel here.
As soon as this is finished, your video is going actually be replaced in place,
in the timeline with the reversed version. Here we go. So now the video is reversed, it's down
here in the timeline. One thing though, when you perform this reverse operation, the audio is also
reversed. So it's going to play now backwards. Let's see now if the reverse operation has been
successful. There you go, the car is driving backwards right now. So the reverse has worked.
So if you don't care for the
audio being reversed, you can mute it, or you can separate the audio from the video. To do that,
right-click on the clip in the timeline and select Detach audio. So the audio now is on its own track
here. You can click on it to delete it, like so, and then your video will just play normally.
If you want to mute the audio instead, let me just show you that as well. So now the
audio is still part of the video. I undo. You can apply a filter to this by going to
filters at the top here and add a filter, and in the filter list, you can search for Mute,
or you can see it down here, but if you have more, you can click on Mute. Click on this to add it and
so you can see the wave form is still there, but there is no sound.
So this has been a very quick tip on how to reverse a video in Shotcut. Shotcut is of
course a free editing software and I encourage you to get it because it's very easy to use.
It's very cool, it has a lot of features that you find in even paid versions.
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