Premiere Pro · Cutting and the timeline
How to reverse a clip in Premiere Pro
Short answer
Right-click the clip, choose Speed/Duration, tick Reverse Speed and click OK. The clip now plays backwards.
In Premiere Pro
01
Open Speed/Duration
Right-click the clip in the Timeline and choose Speed/Duration.
02
Tick Reverse Speed
Tick Reverse Speed. Change the speed at the same time if you want.
03
Deal with the audio
The audio reverses too. Unlink it and delete it, or mute it, if you don't want reversed sound.
04
Render
Press Enter (Return on Mac) to render the clip for smooth playback.
Eddie AI
Do it in Eddie
Reverse playback is not a documented Eddie feature. Do it in Premiere after the hand-off.
Eddie handles the rest of the edit: it builds the cut, sets speed changes from 0.25x to 8x, and sends the timeline to Premiere, where you reverse the clip.
Back to Premiere
Open the edit, click Export and choose Premiere. You get a Premiere project (.prproj) or the older Premiere XML. In the desktop app, Send to Premiere Pro builds the edit inside Premiere through Eddie's panel, which the app installs for you.
If you imported the footage through the desktop app, the timeline points at your original camera files, so Premiere relinks to them. If you uploaded on the web or pulled from cloud storage, it points at Eddie's proxy media; relink to those, not to the camera originals.
From the help center
Questions
- Can I reverse only part of a clip?
- Cut the part out with Cmd+K or Ctrl+K first, then reverse that piece.
- Why is my reversed clip choppy?
- Long-GOP footage such as H.264 plays badly in reverse. Render it, or make a proxy.