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Playing a clip backward

Playing a clip backward

Now we're going to look at a couple of ways to play a clip backwards. I have this footage here that I used when I created that music video I mentioned before. It is kind of like this cool rack focus, which is between the spider and the bushes in back. I'm a terrible cameraman, admittedly, and so we don't really have too good of focus in either spot, but you kind of get the idea. Now, I'd like to change this a little bit because right now we have a spider that's kind of in focus with a very blurry background, and then if I move in time a little bit then slowly the focus changes from the spider to the background and actually it doesn't get quite in focus. But the spider gets way more out of focus than the bushes. So, what we want to do is flip this, because the spider is the real mystery. By starting with the spider and then going to leaves, that's not really that interesting. So, I'd like to flip this clip in time. So, I'm going to right-click on it in the Timeline panel and I'm going…

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