Like a dropped object returning to a hand, reverse playback shows a recorded action in the opposite order. Familiar motion flows the wrong way and feels unexpected.
Reverse the clip’s playback direction in the editor, or reverse the order of its frames. The demo rewinds a ball’s recorded arc from right to left after it originally traveled left to right.
Reverse does not invent a new action; it plays the movement captured in the source backward. The subject and its surroundings all reverse together, so choose source motion that still reads clearly in reverse.
When to use
Use it when reversing a recorded action creates a useful surprise, such as an object returning or scattered pieces coming together. Choose footage whose surrounding motion can also run backward convincingly.